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The lessons of a day in Midtown with Sherif Baioumy and his halal cart
Sherif baioumy’s morning begins at around 7am in a garage in Queens, where he loads up his cart with the day’s food: marinated chicken, a ten-pound skewer of ground lamb, rice, vegetables, hot dogs, falafel, frozen chips, canned soft drinks and bottled water. A colleague hitches the cart to the back of a pickup truck, and by 9.30 they’ve rolled it into place on the south-west corner of 48th Street and 6th Avenue, in the heart of office-worker Midtown.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “In the street kitchen”
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