Nishta Mehra

I love blue corn tortilla chips. I admit, I like them better than yellow corn, at least when it comes to buying for home--perhaps because hot and greasy restaurant chips are so hard to replicate at home, and they're almost always of the yellow corn variety--so I keep the realms...

Dear Readers, I need your help. In the last few weeks, I've found myself attempting to explain the difference between Texas food and traditional Southern cuisine. Since I was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, I consider myself something of an authority on the latter, but I find that there's...

Blame it on the Nom Nom kids from Great Food Truck Race--all those recaps left me with a serious craving for banh mi, the sandwich I basically subsisted on in college. When I discovered that the friend who had been DVRing the show for me had never tried a banh...

Well, here we are--at the end of the food truck race, where the truth will be decided and destinies met and justice will fall down like rain...okay, maybe not, but still. It's been kind of fun getting a glimpse into what makes a good food truck run, even if every...

It was really fun to hear Tyler say "Nom Nom truck" four times in a row as they spliced together each winner announcement from the last four weeks. This week, the trucks find themselves in a town of 5,000 people... "quaint, cute" (according to Tyler) Jonesborough, Tennessee. Or, "in the...