Croswell couple shares Mexican heritage with others through new food truck

A Croswell woman is sharing her love of cooking and her Mexican heritage with others through a new food stuff truck.

Cynthia Mendoza opened Mama C’s North of the Border foodstuff truck with her partner, Scott Lerma, late very last thirty day period.

The truck serves regular Mexican foods, these kinds of as tacos, burritos, tostadas, enchiladas, quesadillas and more. Mendoza said she also will make her possess new tortilla chips.

Mendoza bought her really like of cooking from her mother, who shared her Mexican heritage with her via cooking. Mendoza helped her mother cook tamales at the time a calendar year before Thanksgiving, when her mother took orders from locals in their very own small cottage market.

“I delight in cooking,” she mentioned. “I just take pleasure in it.”

Mendoza and Lerma quit their complete-time jobs to open up the truck. Whilst Mendoza has catered non-public events in advance of, this will be their first time working a food stuff truck.

“I figured, why not attempt it? Why not choose that leap of religion and just try out a thing distinct?” Mendoza claimed. “So I did.”

Mendoza explained she enjoys the flexibility and small overhead price of the meals truck, in which she can choose the functions she desires to show up at. A brick-and-mortar cafe has to have frequent hrs and does not lend her the exact independence.

Mendoza reported she designs to attend events in the Blue Drinking water Spot, this sort of as the St. Clair Art Truthful, Summerfest in Marysville and far more.

Croswell resident Stacie Bales stood in line for the meals truck even though it was parked exterior the Get together Shop Marathon fuel station in Lexington Monday. She reported she is enthusiastic to have much more food stuff selections in the space.

“It can be genuine and incredibly very good meals,” she claimed.

The truck will subsequent be open from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Marysville United Methodist Church, 721 West Huron Blvd.

To locate updates on the truck or to request its expert services for a personal occasion, simply call (810) 357-4162 or test out their Fb website page at Mama C’s North of the Border.

Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 at [email protected] 

This write-up initially appeared on Port Huron Instances Herald: Croswell few opens Mexican meals truck