Food trucks offer opportunities for young chefs but unlikely new culinary course
Culinary student Solomon Nerio could be slaving away on the line in any Miami restaurant, chopping onions with a dozen other chefs. Instead, he took to the road in a food truck that serves Latin-influenced burgers and tacos.
It’s a career path mostly unavailable to young chefs not so long ago. But the recent popularity of food trucks like the shiny black one where Nerio interns (called “the latin burger and taco truck”) has opened new avenues for those looking to break out earlier rather than later in their careers.
“One thing that we’re doing is we’re giving these kids a lot of responsibility and ownership at the beginning,” said the truck’s proprietor, Ingrid Hoffman, who also stars in the Food Network’s “Simply Delicioso.”
“For me, I don’t need to be the star,” she said of her truck business. “It doesn’t even carry my name. I don’t want it to. It’s about these guys.”
Hoffman said she offers truck internships to encourage up-and-comers like Nerio to “dig into their skills.”
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