Across the ages people have been filling their tummies with food purchased from street vendors. Even in these modern times the tradition of street vending persists. Millions of people fill up on hot dogs and pop while gathered at special events such as fairs, festivals, concerts, and sporting events. Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately) unlike long ago, the occupation of street food vending is not as simple as a bag of chickens and a butcher knife. Today, selling food from a booth requires business moxie and following all the procedures of due diligence, licensing and regulations as does any business start-up. Food Booth, The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business provides much needed step-by-step guidance making the American dream of owning ones own business assessable to even the most unlikely entrepreneur.

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to designing, managing, and operating a food concession and food stand business. Based directly on the author¿s twenty-six years of experience, the reader is guided with concrete, no-nonsense information about how to plan and design a mobile food service business from the ground up. With specific sound management and marketing practices the reader is advised how to reach their sales potential quickly, and compound their sales year after year.

This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical ‘how-to’ approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy food in ways that are sustainable. Food democracy, as a concept, is a social movement based on the idea that people can and should be able to actively participate in shaping the food system rather than being passive spectators. The book is useful for university and advanced TAFE courses that cover topics examining food in health sciences, social sciences and other areas of study. It is also relevant to health practitioners, nutritionists, food advocates, policy makers and others with a keen interest in exploring an alternative to the industrial food system known as “Big Food.”

Cultural and historical background information accompanies over one hundred ninety authentic recipes for gazpacho, garlic soup, steak with bananas, clemole, cocktails, punches, and other Mexican dishes and beverages

Until John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, the assassination of a U.S. President was considered unthinkable. All of that changed on April 14, 1865, when Booth shot Lincoln as the president watched the play Our American Cousin. What led Booth to commit this murder, and what effect did this deadly act have on the United States? With this book, readers will take a closer look at this history-making event as well as the lives of Lincoln and Booth before their fateful encounter. Booth may have assassinated Lincoln, but even today the 16th president remains one of the nation's most respected.