On the road: Lonely Planet authors around the world

Lonely Planet’s authors are constantly travelling the globe, doing research to update our guidebooks. Each month Lonely Planet magazine asks them to report back about what’s going on where they are, keeping us all up-to-date.

Here’s what our authors are talking about this December:

New York street food awards
Robert Reid, Lonely Planet’s US travel editor.

New York street food has long outgrown the hot dog. Just note the finalists of the 6th annual Vendy Awards, the city’s street-vendor competition. It’s less frankfurter, and more chalupa, vegan pastry, even ‘gay ice cream.’

‘It’s definitely not just hot dogs anymore,’ says Fares ‘Freddy’ Zeideia, of the King of Falafel and Shawarma in Queens – this year’s Vendy winner. ‘You only see hot dogs on Fifth Avenue for tourists.’

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