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Read about Boss Blaster's ongoing project to create more parks in Lincoln:
"The Caliber of People" 7-11-19
Story Date: Friday, August 15, 2015
Summary: Faster Blaster sets up in Lincoln, Nebraska and begins looking for people to form a gang.
"Give Back Grace and Delight" 6-2-20
Story Date: Friday, April 22, 2016
Summary: In spring, Boss Blaster decides to launch more parks: Shady Grove Park and Frogmorton Park.
"Oak Guilds" 6-29-21
Story Date: Monday, May 9, 2016
Summary: Boss Blaster accepts an offer for help establishing a new park based on oak trees and their companion plants.
"Caterpillar Park" 6-29-21
Story Date: Monday, May 9, 2016
Summary: Boss Blaster and friends plant oak trees and other native species.
"So Many Styles of Food" 8-10-22
Story Date: Monday, June 6, 2016
Summary: After the Big One, Shiv makes campfire cooking equipment.
In the 1980’s, Lincoln became a federally designated refugee resettlement site and resettled over 5,500 refugees, mostly Vietnamese. Waves of refugees continued to come to Lincoln each year, often reflecting the part of the world most under fire. Following the Vietnamese, Lincoln accepted refugees from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Karen from Myanmar (Burma). During this timeframe, Lincoln also experienced large numbers of immigrants, mostly Hispanic, settling in Lincoln. Lincoln continued to receive a growing number of refugee resettlements, and by 1993, our community was receiving approximately 1,200 refugees a year. In the 1990’s, Lincoln was designated as a “Refugee Friendly” city by the U.S. Department of State. Lincoln became a targeted refugee resettlement site by the year 2000 and received funding from the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to assist the city with the cost of resettling refugee populations. Lincoln was recently cited as the 12th largest resettlement site per capita in the country.
Soul on the Roll is a Terramagne-Lincoln food truck that specializes in soul food, with a range of healthy and indulgent options. It spends a lot of time in the poorer neighborhoods where black people cluster, like North Bottoms and Lake Bottoms.
Corn-Fed is a food truck chain in Terramagne-Nebraska. They make all kinds of things with corn including cornbread, ham and cornbread casserole, cowboy cornbread casserole, Indian tacos made with corn pone, fried corn nuggets, sweet corn on a stick, hot corn salsa, Mexican street corn, and Three Sisters Salad. Soups include Three Sisters soup, pozole blanco, pozole rojo, pozole verde, corn chowder, vegetable sweet corn soup, corn and black bean chili, and white chicken corn chili. They usually stock one soup with meat and one without. Desserts include blueberry cobbler with cornbread topping, corn cookies, corn ice cream, and Mexican sweet corn cake. They also carry bagged corn chips, tostadas, and popcorn but those are made and packaged elsewhere to be packed in boxes for the food trucks. Corn-Fed is organized by the Nebraska Corn Growers Association.
Top Lincoln Taco Trucks
Looking for the best tacos in Lincoln? From traditional Mexican to Mexican-Asian fusion, we have 8 Lincoln taco trucks, trailers, and carts for you to explore. Find one near you for lunch or book them for your next party. Whether you’re craving street tacos, fish tacos, birria, or burritos and quesadillas, you’ll find something to love.
Muchachos, Mando's Mexican Grill, El Tejano Food Style, D'Leon's Taco Truck, Roaming Tacos, Pepe's Bistro, Porkccentric
Kitchen Diplomacy is a Terramagne-American franchise of restaurants and food trucks whose menu focuses on foods from whatever countries America is currently disagreeing with. Each owner can choose from a current list of countries and their recipes curated by the franchise. The goal is promoting peace through the shared interest of good food. Many owners are immigrants or refugees, as the franchise has programs in food preparation and entrepreneurship aimed at helping them.
The Food Is Lava is an Ethiopian food cart in Terramagne-Lincoln. It typically deploys with four types of wat (a thick spicy stew), two meat and two vegetarian or vegan, which may be dished into a cup or rolled into njera (sourdough flatbread made from tef flour). The flavors change daily. It is extremely popular with Hispanic folks.
Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes. This is usually in the form of wat, a thick stew, served on top of injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 20 inches in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians usually eat with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up bites of entrées and side dishes.
Come in Dan is a Terramagne-Lincoln food booth that sets up at events and parks. It serves Vietnamese-American fusion food inspired by cơm bình dân. The base is rice, accompanied by a wide variety of other things like braised meat and stir-fried vegetables served either on top of the rice or on the side. With its origins as a workman's meal, it has become enormously popular with Lincoln's blue-collar workforce.
Cơm Bình Dân: A Typical Vietnamese Street Food Meal
Throughout Saigon, Vietnam, you’ll find and abundance of small restaurants and street food stalls that sell something known as cơm bình dân (I’ll write it just as com binh dan throughout most of this article).
In Vietnamese the term literally translates to “commoner’s rice.”
It’s the Vietnamese version of economy rice in Malaysia or khao rad gaeng in Thailand, often considered a workman’s meal, including a plate piled with rice, served with your choice of a variety of dishes, all prepared and waiting to be ordered.
Side dishes can include things like deep fried items, curries, stews, braised dishes, and everything from pork to beef to seafood.
Additionally, you can order your meal directly topped onto a plate of rice, or served in side separate bowls – usually for a little bigger portion size and a little extra money.
Afghan Tablecloth is primarily a catering business in Terramagne-Lincoln, but they will also set up a food booth at events or parks, and they have a restaurant. Much of their menu consists of stews and kebabs, but they also have dip-based brunch items and rice pudding for dessert.
Ukrainian Breadbasket is a Terramagne-Lincoln bakery that also sends out food carts to events and parks. They stock loaves and rolls made from rye, barley, wheat, or multigrain. A leading favorite is their pyrizhky (stuffed buns) with fillings such as ground beef, pork, sauerkraut, cheese, onion, or mushroom.
Slavic tribes, which settled the territory of modern Ukraine during the early Middle Ages, cultivated cereals such as rye, wheat and barley. The main food of the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus' was bread, most commonly made from rye.
Pyrizhky are well-liked pastries with a filling. Pyrizhky are usually made of yeast-raised dough but for important occasions, puff pastry or short pastry may be used.
Food deserts in Nebraska tend to be defined by affordability and rural access. The official distance is typically 1 mile in urban or 10 miles in rural areas. In a city like Lincoln, however, a more realistic definition concerns whether a neighborhood has a grocery store without needing to cross a major road. People who lack a car or have mobility issues may struggle with traveling across the city. Bringing in fresh produce via farmer's markets and food carts is much faster and easier than trying to build a whole grocery store in a poor neighborhood.
Nebraska Produce Harvest Calendar
May produce: asparagus, cabbage, herbs, lettuce, radishes, rhubarb, spinach
June: beets, broccoli, carrots, cherries, herbs, kale, onions, peas, radishes, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries
Nebraska Produce Harvest Calendar
Salad Sam is a small market farm in Terramagne Nebraska that specializes in ingredients for salads, many of which also suit smoothies. Their greens include baby chard, baby spinach, mixed lettuces, and zesty mesclun along with seasonal blends of spring mix, summer mix, fall mix, and winter mix based on greens that grow in each season. Additional vegetables include bell peppers, carrots, celery, cucumbers, green onions, hot peppers, mushrooms, peas, radishes, and tomatoes. They also stock a variety of sprouts, herbs, edible flowers, and a few fruits such as raspberries and strawberries. They grow crops both outdoors and in coldhouses, giving them a nearly year-round service season except for about a month in late December to early January.
Totally Tomatoes is a large specialty farm in Terramagne-Nebraska that only grows tomatoes, but many varieties. They offer all styles including currant, grape, cherry, salad, paste, and beefsteak; and colors including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green (when ripe), brown, black, white, and multicolor. A few are commercial cultivars such as 'Roma' paste tomatoes for customers who like to make their own tomato sauce. Many are heirlooms like 'Mortgage Lifter' and 'Cherokee Purple'. They also like to try out new cultivars to see what people like. They grow tomatoes outdoors in warm weather, with row covers in spring and fall, but switch to heated greenhouses for cold weather.
In a Pickle is a secondary service in Terramagne-Nebraska that buys from a variety of farms, processes the produce, then sends lacto-fermented and canned pickles to farmer's markets, health stores, and other venues around the state. They make bread-and-butter, sweet, spicy, and dill pickles; plus pickle relish in the same three flavors. Other vegetables include asparagus, beets, cabbage, carrots, corn, green beans, mushrooms, okra, peppers, onion, radishes, snap peas, summer squash, turnips, and zucchini. Fruits include apples, apricots, cherries, crabapples, blueberries, gooseberries, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, rhubarb, strawberries, and watermelon rind. They make a few pickled herbs such as fennel, garlic, ginger, and horseradish. Occasionally they have pickled eggs. They also buy up odds and ends of produce to make large quantities of blends such as anything pickles, chow chow, Italian giardiniera (hot and mild), piccalilli, quick pickles, and various relishes. The lacto-fermented options vary seasonally, but the canned goods remain available year-round.
Carrot Top Pesto
Read about Boss Blaster's ongoing project to create more parks in Lincoln:
"The Caliber of People" 7-11-19
Story Date: Friday, August 15, 2015
Summary: Faster Blaster sets up in Lincoln, Nebraska and begins looking for people to form a gang.
"Give Back Grace and Delight" 6-2-20
Story Date: Friday, April 22, 2016
Summary: In spring, Boss Blaster decides to launch more parks: Shady Grove Park and Frogmorton Park.
"Oak Guilds" 6-29-21
Story Date: Monday, May 9, 2016
Summary: Boss Blaster accepts an offer for help establishing a new park based on oak trees and their companion plants.
"Caterpillar Park" 6-29-21
Story Date: Monday, May 9, 2016
Summary: Boss Blaster and friends plant oak trees and other native species.
"So Many Styles of Food" 8-10-22
Story Date: Monday, June 6, 2016
Summary: After the Big One, Shiv makes campfire cooking equipment.
In the 1980’s, Lincoln became a federally designated refugee resettlement site and resettled over 5,500 refugees, mostly Vietnamese. Waves of refugees continued to come to Lincoln each year, often reflecting the part of the world most under fire. Following the Vietnamese, Lincoln accepted refugees from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Karen from Myanmar (Burma). During this timeframe, Lincoln also experienced large numbers of immigrants, mostly Hispanic, settling in Lincoln. Lincoln continued to receive a growing number of refugee resettlements, and by 1993, our community was receiving approximately 1,200 refugees a year. In the 1990’s, Lincoln was designated as a “Refugee Friendly” city by the U.S. Department of State. Lincoln became a targeted refugee resettlement site by the year 2000 and received funding from the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to assist the city with the cost of resettling refugee populations. Lincoln was recently cited as the 12th largest resettlement site per capita in the country.
Soul on the Roll is a Terramagne-Lincoln food truck that specializes in soul food, with a range of healthy and indulgent options. It spends a lot of time in the poorer neighborhoods where black people cluster, like North Bottoms and Lake Bottoms.
Corn-Fed is a food truck chain in Terramagne-Nebraska. They make all kinds of things with corn including cornbread, ham and cornbread casserole, cowboy cornbread casserole, Indian tacos made with corn pone, fried corn nuggets, sweet corn on a stick, hot corn salsa, Mexican street corn, and Three Sisters Salad. Soups include Three Sisters soup, pozole blanco, pozole rojo, pozole verde, corn chowder, vegetable sweet corn soup, corn and black bean chili, and white chicken corn chili. They usually stock one soup with meat and one without. Desserts include blueberry cobbler with cornbread topping, corn cookies, corn ice cream, and Mexican sweet corn cake. They also carry bagged corn chips, tostadas, and popcorn but those are made and packaged elsewhere to be packed in boxes for the food trucks. Corn-Fed is organized by the Nebraska Corn Growers Association.
Top Lincoln Taco Trucks
Looking for the best tacos in Lincoln? From traditional Mexican to Mexican-Asian fusion, we have 8 Lincoln taco trucks, trailers, and carts for you to explore. Find one near you for lunch or book them for your next party. Whether you’re craving street tacos, fish tacos, birria, or burritos and quesadillas, you’ll find something to love.
Muchachos, Mando's Mexican Grill, El Tejano Food Style, D'Leon's Taco Truck, Roaming Tacos, Pepe's Bistro, Porkccentric
Kitchen Diplomacy is a Terramagne-American franchise of restaurants and food trucks whose menu focuses on foods from whatever countries America is currently disagreeing with. Each owner can choose from a current list of countries and their recipes curated by the franchise. The goal is promoting peace through the shared interest of good food. Many owners are immigrants or refugees, as the franchise has programs in food preparation and entrepreneurship aimed at helping them.
The Food Is Lava is an Ethiopian food cart in Terramagne-Lincoln. It typically deploys with four types of wat (a thick spicy stew), two meat and two vegetarian or vegan, which may be dished into a cup or rolled into njera (sourdough flatbread made from tef flour). The flavors change daily. It is extremely popular with Hispanic folks.
Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes. This is usually in the form of wat, a thick stew, served on top of injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 20 inches in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians usually eat with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up bites of entrées and side dishes.
Come in Dan is a Terramagne-Lincoln food booth that sets up at events and parks. It serves Vietnamese-American fusion food inspired by cơm bình dân. The base is rice, accompanied by a wide variety of other things like braised meat and stir-fried vegetables served either on top of the rice or on the side. With its origins as a workman's meal, it has become enormously popular with Lincoln's blue-collar workforce.
Cơm Bình Dân: A Typical Vietnamese Street Food Meal
Throughout Saigon, Vietnam, you’ll find and abundance of small restaurants and street food stalls that sell something known as cơm bình dân (I’ll write it just as com binh dan throughout most of this article).
In Vietnamese the term literally translates to “commoner’s rice.”
It’s the Vietnamese version of economy rice in Malaysia or khao rad gaeng in Thailand, often considered a workman’s meal, including a plate piled with rice, served with your choice of a variety of dishes, all prepared and waiting to be ordered.
Side dishes can include things like deep fried items, curries, stews, braised dishes, and everything from pork to beef to seafood.
Additionally, you can order your meal directly topped onto a plate of rice, or served in side separate bowls – usually for a little bigger portion size and a little extra money.
Afghan Tablecloth is primarily a catering business in Terramagne-Lincoln, but they will also set up a food booth at events or parks, and they have a restaurant. Much of their menu consists of stews and kebabs, but they also have dip-based brunch items and rice pudding for dessert.
Ukrainian Breadbasket is a Terramagne-Lincoln bakery that also sends out food carts to events and parks. They stock loaves and rolls made from rye, barley, wheat, or multigrain. A leading favorite is their pyrizhky (stuffed buns) with fillings such as ground beef, pork, sauerkraut, cheese, onion, or mushroom.
Slavic tribes, which settled the territory of modern Ukraine during the early Middle Ages, cultivated cereals such as rye, wheat and barley. The main food of the inhabitants of Kyivan Rus' was bread, most commonly made from rye.
Pyrizhky are well-liked pastries with a filling. Pyrizhky are usually made of yeast-raised dough but for important occasions, puff pastry or short pastry may be used.
Food deserts in Nebraska tend to be defined by affordability and rural access. The official distance is typically 1 mile in urban or 10 miles in rural areas. In a city like Lincoln, however, a more realistic definition concerns whether a neighborhood has a grocery store without needing to cross a major road. People who lack a car or have mobility issues may struggle with traveling across the city. Bringing in fresh produce via farmer's markets and food carts is much faster and easier than trying to build a whole grocery store in a poor neighborhood.
Nebraska Produce Harvest Calendar
May produce: asparagus, cabbage, herbs, lettuce, radishes, rhubarb, spinach
June: beets, broccoli, carrots, cherries, herbs, kale, onions, peas, radishes, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries
Nebraska Produce Harvest Calendar
Salad Sam is a small market farm in Terramagne Nebraska that specializes in ingredients for salads, many of which also suit smoothies. Their greens include baby chard, baby spinach, mixed lettuces, and zesty mesclun along with seasonal blends of spring mix, summer mix, fall mix, and winter mix based on greens that grow in each season. Additional vegetables include bell peppers, carrots, celery, cucumbers, green onions, hot peppers, mushrooms, peas, radishes, and tomatoes. They also stock a variety of sprouts, herbs, edible flowers, and a few fruits such as raspberries and strawberries. They grow crops both outdoors and in coldhouses, giving them a nearly year-round service season except for about a month in late December to early January.
Totally Tomatoes is a large specialty farm in Terramagne-Nebraska that only grows tomatoes, but many varieties. They offer all styles including currant, grape, cherry, salad, paste, and beefsteak; and colors including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green (when ripe), brown, black, white, and multicolor. A few are commercial cultivars such as 'Roma' paste tomatoes for customers who like to make their own tomato sauce. Many are heirlooms like 'Mortgage Lifter' and 'Cherokee Purple'. They also like to try out new cultivars to see what people like. They grow tomatoes outdoors in warm weather, with row covers in spring and fall, but switch to heated greenhouses for cold weather.
In a Pickle is a secondary service in Terramagne-Nebraska that buys from a variety of farms, processes the produce, then sends lacto-fermented and canned pickles to farmer's markets, health stores, and other venues around the state. They make bread-and-butter, sweet, spicy, and dill pickles; plus pickle relish in the same three flavors. Other vegetables include asparagus, beets, cabbage, carrots, corn, green beans, mushrooms, okra, peppers, onion, radishes, snap peas, summer squash, turnips, and zucchini. Fruits include apples, apricots, cherries, crabapples, blueberries, gooseberries, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, rhubarb, strawberries, and watermelon rind. They make a few pickled herbs such as fennel, garlic, ginger, and horseradish. Occasionally they have pickled eggs. They also buy up odds and ends of produce to make large quantities of blends such as anything pickles, chow chow, Italian giardiniera (hot and mild), piccalilli, quick pickles, and various relishes. The lacto-fermented options vary seasonally, but the canned goods remain available year-round.
Carrot Top Pesto
