Street Food GPS Locator Software

Posted by Maddalena Delli May 10, 2008

Italy still boasts a wealth of tasty regional varieties of street food traditionally sold at kiosks or small shops. Let the latest satellite technology guide you there!

Since Medieval times, roadside inns and taverns have been playing a significant role in food culture. Michelin star studded restaurants are all very well, but to this day the most genuine culinary experience in many ways still rests with the local sense of taste and place that comes from street food vendors.

When you connect a certain taste and smell with the look and feel of a place, the experience is much more likely to stay with you forever: from British Fish & Chips to Niçoise Pan Bagnat and Florentine Lampredotto rolls, I - for one - am a big fan of street food (aka local fast food if you like).

StreetFood is a recently founded association whose primary mission is mapping and promoting Italian street food specialties.

Their latest project is L'Imboccastrada, a specially designed software that enables users to build their own itineraries and download the info of their choice to several brands of GPS devices at no cost.

The name L'Imboccastrada stems from the Italian verb imboccare, meaning both to spoon-feed and to take a road/direction.

At this stage, their database is still somewhat bare of info and listings, but I'm intrigued with the further developments of this project.

Watch this space, I'll keep you posted!