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it’s that wonderful time of the year, where love is in the air!  it just so happens, that love and sweets are very closely related, and we got you covered!

this valentine’s day, we have a perfect package for you to reserve to make sure your sweetheart is smiling on the 14th

*a portion of each sale will be going to our friends at The Supply, a non-profit who builds secondary schools for slum children to empower them to ignite transformation within their slums.  (find out more about them through www.thesupply.org)

DETAILS:

• V-Day Packages include Milk & Honey (1), Cherry Pistachio (1), Hazelnut Coffee Chocolate Ganache (1)
• Wonderful Valentine’s Day Packaging that says I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
• $10/package

Penn/Drexel Students order here (Macaron-Gram on-campus delivery!): http://tinyurl.com/macarongram

FB Event Page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/298723686847525/

Not a Penn/Drexel student?  No problem!  Please pre-order your French Macaron V-Day Package between 2/7-2/10 with us by stopping by the truck or emailing info@sugarphillytruck.com (Package pick-up @ Truck on 38th/Walnut on 2/14)

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYONE!

yes, its fall. kinda. (snow and then 70 degrees……..) but we still felt it was time to bring back our beloved fall-y dessert (starting thursday 11/10)

Pumpkin Custard with Candied Pecan and Oats with Torched Marshmallow (YUM!)

but a special announcement with this one is that we have partnered with Givology @ Penn to do a little awareness project.  here’s how to get involved:

Remember, snap a picture of our Pumpkin Custard with your brand new iPhone 4S and throw #givingissweet on a tweet to @sugarphilly & @givology for a chance to win! (facebook too!)

Got it? GOOD!

support our friends at Givology through this link: www.givology.org/

Vacation is over, Sugar Philly is back and hopefully as prepared as we are going to be for the fall!

Everybody ready for school, work, and the chaos of life?

We certainly aren’t!  Haha

Ohh well, we will live and move on.  Enjoy this picture of our milk and honey macaron!

Time to sleep for me!  Until tomorrow, laters!

Truck friends then family

If any of you really know me, I am not the biggest fan of taking pictures of food.  I find it a bit weird, food is meant to be eaten not fantasized over.  These are the tacos from the food truck Cucina Zapata, who happened to start their twitter today.  Hurrah!  Anyway, I forgot to take a picture their truck while I was there so their thai tacos will have to do.

Owning and running a food truck can get indeed overwhelming to say the least.  Luckily the community of food trucks its probably one of the biggest perks of owning a food truck.  Obviously there’s exchange of food involved, but there’s a comradery in the struggle of food costs, licences and permits, customer relations good and bad, the list goes on and on.  Cucina Zapata is probably one of our newest friends, so go try them out!  They are located on 31st and ludlow on Drexel’s campus.

And I guess in a nutshell those are the basics of running a food truck and life at Sugar Philly.  Although quite the headache at times, there are always good moments that even out the bad.

As I am writing this, I am back at home in Long Island, New York(who said I was from the city?…) This is where I’ll be spending the remainder of my vacation with my family.

We will return to the streets on Tuesday, Sept 6th!  Until then, leave me alone!  Haha =)

Back in the kitchen

Finally after 2 days of doing logistics in front of the computer and running errands, I can do what I like doing the most about my job, baking.

Kind of wild how it all started for me.  It all began with me moving into this apartment with some friends, some old bread, sharing what I made with people, and following the feeling that I made people happy.  And now its 7 – 8 years later.

Green tea buttercream anyone?

Actually, I should really correct my first statement, “I can do what I like doing the most about my job, baking.”  It’s really the second thing I like doing about my job, the first would serving everyone and seeing their lovely smile.

If you would like to make me happy in the truck, try smiling.  It certainly makes my day every time.

The Team

It’s my personal belief that Sugar Philly works because of the team we have created. Despite what many of you have seen from the truck, there’s quite a bit of people behind the scenes. There are 3 partners(myself, john, and franklin), 2 interns, 1 on and off again intern, and 1 guy that’s been doing the photos.

The image above may seem a little random, but factor in that this is not my car.  In fact its my intern’s car who’s a dude that put that hello kitty there before he started dating his gf. Why the hello kitty you ask? I don’t really know, but these are the strange people that have become the SP team or as I like to call it, the Sugar Philly Family.

Behind me were boxes of eggs, cream, sugar, dairy, the list goes on and on. The reason why I posted that picture instead of the car loaded up with everything is because without the people I work with, none of that would be possible. And more importantly without the people that I work with, things wouldn’t be fun.

And isn’t fun what its all about?

See ya tomorrowwwwww!