Cocinas ambulantes [1930s-1960s]

Description: Selling fast food at cheap prices is not an effect of modernisation as its existence may be traced to the beginning of the 20th century. The port of Buenos Aires received delicious meat from the stockbreeder interior of the pampas that was, then, sold at cheap prices. At the same, the Italian immigrants, who lived in the nearby predominantly Genovese neighbourhood of La Boca, went to the port to sell their freshly baked pizzas. In the 1920s, the Municipality of Buenos Aires tried to forbid this custom but received general critiques in defense of the fast, fresh, and cheap ambulatory sale of food. Extent and format of original material: This envelope contains photos, and newspapers' clippings.