THE INFORMATION
Canal de Limo is a division of Limozine Foods, brought to you by Local Technique.
ORIGIN
Food Limo was born on March 23, 2020, the morning after nonessential businesses in New York City closed to slow the spread of Covid-19. At the time no one knew if it was safe to open the mail, much less stand in line at the grocery store. A few of us in Brooklyn started to buy food in bulk and distribute it curbside to each other as elaborate weekly meal kits, which we cooked via Zoom for camaraderie during the hell of urban lockdown.
As jobs evaporated, curfews set in, and sirens took over the city soundscape, our original crew of five passengers grew. A founding member proposed the name Food Limo as a joke, something dumb enough to be an actual startup. It stuck. In place of venture capitalists we adopted a vampire as our mascot, for a slightly more human touch.
Inspired by Tim Sweeney’s legendary NYC radio show Beats in Space, which never missed a week on WNYU in 21 years, the original Food Limo published a new installment every Monday and made its delivery rounds through blizzards, heat waves and existential calamity — by car, motorcycle, bike, subway, bus and neighborly handoffs. This work was made possible by the modest but indispensable support of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. In 2023, Canal de Limo emerged. We’re not quite sure what it is yet.
Words and images here are by Adrienne Anderson* but the Limo would not exist without its passengers. While the Limoverse is a very real state of mind, all events and characters depicted herein — time travel, grand theft naval, psychedelic visions, insider trading, “Rick Bayless,” running a wine bar from a Tokyo parking space, working under the table on a chayote farm, and everything/everyone else — are likely fiction.
*except for Bela Lugosi (1931), who lives forever in the public domain.
HOW DO I JOIN/SUPPORT?
If money burns a hole in your heart or your pocket, reach out. We’ll gladly accept it and credit you lavishly in future publications. The archives of our activities, insofar as they exist online, are free to browse and ponder. One thing will never change: we will drive this whole thing straight off a cliff before you ever see the wan, necrotic claw of online advertising pry open a Limo door.
The grocery delivery service is currently dormant, until the next round of chaos and crises raises it from the dead.
Recipe questions? General inquiries? Leave a message on the Limo hotline:
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