Something wonderfully and brilliantly provincial is happening in force right now in London: the Saturday market is back. Morrisons and Sainsbury's may be just around the corner, but communities across the capital are ditching their local all-singing, all-hours, all-in-season-whatever-the-weather supermarkets to buy their food and ingredients directly from the producer,...

What an edifying start to 2013 we have had. Since I last wrote, we have spent six action-packed weeks travelling, visiting our partner NGO Base in the west of Nepal and then heading down to India for sun, sand and sea while the street food world recuperated from a gruelling...

Oh my goodness it is Christmas already. Where the summer and autumn went I have only a vague idea; it feels at once an eternity and a moment since we first nervously opened the hatch of our big old van on Leather Lane back in June.

The last few weeks...

It is no secret that street food in London is thriving. Every month new traders hit the scene with mind boggling new concepts and taste combinations crazy enough to make Heston think twice. And almost every time we trade someone else comes up to the van asking how we got...

With our first summer season done and dusted, we have finally come up for air and got ourselves back on track since launching the van in the spring. We have slept, eaten and tidied like never before and now we are ripe and ready for autumn in the city and...

In an article published last month entitled 'What is working? A bipartisan search for solutions to the jobs crisis', as part of HuffPost's recent  'Opportunity: what is working' campaign, Arianna Huffington described the current state of unemployment in the US as 'the American Dream deferred'.

For while hope,...

A while ago, I wrote on the rainbo blog how one of the most empowering and exciting elements of running one's own business - however small - is the freedom to choose where you spend your profits. In other words, to be able to give money gained by your toils...

Not all those who wander are lost...

So says Tolkein, anyway. And wandering and roaming is exactly what we want to do in our rainbo van. To that end, we decided last week to spread our wings and leave Leather Lane behind in search of new horizons and mouths to...

Doing a food van, you are constantly meeting new people. That is one of the joys of the job. The food, the market, the tedious British weather and the daily toils may stay more or less the same, but the customers and passers by are always different, and always inspiring...

I know I have been quiet since we got going in the van. In what could be considered a cavalier move, we booked ourselves in for two festivals back to back, three weeks into trading, and the last couple of weeks have been a hazy blur of heavy rain, ubiquitous...

This week, my boyfriend Ben and I launched our new street food business, rainbo, at London's Leather Lane market. Having quit our office jobs to run Petra Barran's chocolate van at markets and festivals last summer, we craved crunchy salads and light, healthy food on the move, so we decided...