A Hamburger Food Truck; Jacques Pépin Cancels DC Visit

FOOD TRUCKS—Another food truck is coming and it's not just any food truck. It is a burger food truck. Our friends over at Burger Days share the news that Dorothy Moon's Gourmet Burgers aims to hit DC streets in mid-November with a menu of five burgers, chips, potato salad and fruit salad. The owners are both local and one of them got his start working for another local burger place, Five Guys. [BD]

FOOD TRUCKS—In more food truck news, the DC Food Truck Association has posted an open letter of apology on its website. It appears that last week's Trucker-boo event was changed at the last minute from an optional donation fundraiser to one with an admission fee. The association writes: "We were taken aback by this change from what was advertised on the flyers and our objections fell on deaf ears when we confronted the event’s organizer, Georgetown Events." [EaterWire]

JACQUES PEPIN WIRE—The Washington Post reports that Jacques Pépin has had to cancel some of his upcoming public appearances due to hip replacement surgery — and these include his trip to DC for the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show plus that lunch with Michel Richard at Citronelle. Sad. [WaPo]