Food stall

This article looks at the outdoor kitchen type. See also: Cookshop (Braunschweig) , street name or cookshop (Leutenberg) , hotel in Thuringia.

Neapolitan food stall around 1800

Food stall in Thailand

Food stalls as open-air kitchens with street sales are the forerunners of modern gastronomy .

history

Food stalls in ancient times and in the Middle Ages were run by a cook who was licensed to operate such a kitchen and sell food. He is described as “a cook in a town where you can get cooked or fried food every day; his local (is the, erg.) food stall, mostly only used by the lower class. ” In Vienna , the mobile food stalls were referred to as“ roast meats ”and operated by butchers who sold hot sausages and meat there.

Today, small street kitchens in Asia and Africa are known as cookshops, some with seating. Here, the food is served from food that has been kept warm and partly freshly prepared according to the wishes of the guests, there is only a limited selection. These are mostly simple stands that can be easily set up, dismantled and transported. The prices in a cookshop are much lower than those in a restaurant.

Today, food stalls are primarily to be found in Asia . On Asian fresh markets, such as the famous Khlong Toey Market in Bangkok, individual cookshops offer special specialties, such as B. crispy roasted red ants. In Europe and in North America is takeaways or fast-food restaurants in the United States often grouped so-called catering areas ( food courts ) .

literature

• Vatcharin Bhumichitr: Thai Street Food. Thai food stalls and their best recipes. Hädecke, Weil der Stadt 2003, ISBN 3-7750-0397-5
• Leo Vogt: The cookshop. Cooking, roasting and baking in the Middle Ages . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher, ISBN 3-929366-31-2
• Christoph Wagner, Peter Frese: Food stalls. Hugendubel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88034-995-9

See also

• Street food

Web links

Commons : Street food  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Cookshop  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexicon from 1857
2. ↑ (E-Book) Try what is crawling there - The practical insect food guide ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Authors: Desirée Bea Cimbollek, Ralf Krause, Thomas S. Linke; Berlin 2014