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Pedal to the Kettle: Gourmet Truckers Fix Savory Meals at 70 Miles an Hour
Wall Street Journal (A-hed) ^ | 10/15/17 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 10/16/2017 7:59:37 AM PDT by SES1066

Long-haul truckers, who spend weeks on end working and sleeping in spaces the size of a modest suburban bathroom, say life on the road does have its monastic charms.

Cooking dinner at 70 miles an hour has never been one of them.

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Trucker-chefs swap recipes online and compete in virtual contests like the “Chopped Challenge” run by Big Truck Cooking, a 12,600-member Facebook group whose recent contest entries include slow-cooked Thai peanut pork and skillet shepherd’s pie.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Hobbies; Society
KEYWORDS: american; drivers; food; longhaul
Ingenuity and resourcefulness - one of the things we CELEBRATE as Americans.

FYI: I THINK that the A-Hed articles are available without paying WSJ.

1 posted on 10/16/2017 7:59:37 AM PDT by SES1066
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To: SES1066

Uh...how about a linky?


2 posted on 10/16/2017 8:01:30 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The ,Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

Looks like a Wall Street Journal paywall.....


3 posted on 10/16/2017 8:04:14 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: SES1066

I hope the best of them get invited to compete on Chopped.


4 posted on 10/16/2017 8:06:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: SES1066
Here's the guy who started the trend in 1924...


5 posted on 10/16/2017 8:08:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ptsal

I’ll never understand why people post articles linked behind a paywall.


6 posted on 10/16/2017 8:11:01 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: SES1066
Actually, J.I. Wernette beat him. 99 years ago!


7 posted on 10/16/2017 8:16:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: linear; elcid1970
I’ll never understand why people post articles linked behind a paywall.

Sorry you all, but at one time the A-Hed articles were available but are no longer, what can I say? Now I know. Sorry for the frustration.

8 posted on 10/16/2017 8:31:01 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: elcid1970

https://www.facebook.com/groups/623451594454306/?fref=mentions

Yikes, the pages says they cook in the truck. As in driving down the road at 70+ and leaning over to stir the pot or flip the burger?


9 posted on 10/16/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

asbestos cover? exhaust heat? sounds healthy :)


10 posted on 10/16/2017 10:53:07 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: b4me

Hey, cooking with pure EVMO! How can you beat that?

(Extra Virgin Motor Oil)


11 posted on 10/16/2017 11:53:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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