I'm giving away a copy of John T. Edge's new book, "The Truck Food Cookbook: 150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels."

Only Burger, Daisy Cakes, Klausie's Pizza and Farmhand Foods Sausage Wagon get a mention in the chapter on Durham. And there's a recipe for Only Burger's fried green tomato and pimento cheese burger.

You know the drill. To enter, leave a comment below this post before noon April 27. I'll choose a winner at random. Good luck!

The sixth annual Empty Bowls fundraiser will be serving up bowls of soup to benefit Urban Ministries of Durham as usual. But this year, organizers have added an after party at Fullsteam Brewery  and Motorco Music Hall with a food truck roundup.

So now you have two opportunities to help the Urban Ministries of Durham's Community Cafe, which serves nearly 220,000 meals annually to those in need.

From 5:30-8 p.m. March 8, eleven restaurants will be competing for the title of "Best Soup" at The Durham Armory. You can pay $15 to enjoy some soup or $30 for soup and a handcrafted bowl made by local artisans to take home. Children age 6 and under eat for free. To buy tickets, go to  www.umdurham.org.

The participating restaurants include Guglhupf, Revolution, L'Uva, Papa Mojo's Roadhouse, Thrills from the Grill, Watts Grocery, Blu Seafood and Bar, Whole Foods, Toast, Saladelia Cafe and Mad Hatter Bakeshop and Cafe.

If you can't make the earlier event, head over to Fullsteam Brewery and Motorco Music Hall starting at 8 p.m. for the after party. Seven food trucks will be debuting a new dish and donating a percentage of their sales to Urban Ministries of Durham. The food trucks include Pie Pushers, Will & Pops, The Parlour, Chirba Chirba Dumpling, Klausie's Pizza, Only Burger and Farmhand Foods Sausage Wagon. 

The opening night of Green Day's "American Idiot" at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium will feature a food truck rodeo.

From 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, six trucks -- Klausie's Pizza, Only Burger, KoKyu BBQ, Baguettaboutit, Lo Yo On The Go and Chick-N-Que -- will serve food before the 7:30 performance. The trucks will gather in front of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.

There is also a special ticket offer for the opening performance: $32 for seats in the orchestra section, $22 for seats in the mezzanine section. That's a $10 discount. Use the code ROCK when ordering. Call 831-6941, ext. 6944. To order online, go to www.nctheatre.com.
 

Raleigh's Big Boss Brewery is hosting a food truck event starting at 5-10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13. (It's their second annual Big Food Truck Harvest and it will benefit UNC's Lineberger Cancer Center.)

The following food trucks plan to be in attendance: Only Burger, Valentino's, Chirba Chirba Dumpling, Slippin' Sliders and Olde North State BBQ.

The brewery will be serving their pumpkin beer and The Cupcake Brewery will be serving up pumpkin ale-infused cupcakes. Plus, there will be a carved pumpkin contest.

Go HERE to read more about the event and the pumpkin-carving contest.

If you can't make this event, there are two more upcoming food truck gatherings, one in Raleigh and the other in Durham. Go HERE to read about those events.

If  you are looking for something to do Saturday, there will be a food truck round-up starting at noon outside The Casbah on West Main Street in Durham as part of Bull City Rumble.

The Durham Cookery has rounded up several of its food truck clients for the event: Chirba Chirba Dumplings, Deez Hot Diggity Dogs, Farmhand Foods, Grilled Cheese Bus, and Pie Pushers. Plus Only Burger and Ice Queen, an ice cream food truck from Greensboro, also will be there. Go HERE to see more details about the trucks.

Have fun! If you head to a round-up, remember the lines will be long and you might want to bring a lawn chair.
 

Brian Bottger, who manages the Only Burger truck, called this morning to tell me about the biggest food truck gathering to date in the Triangle. It will be from 5:30-8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14 at Durham Central Park, where the Durham Farmers' Market meets on Foster St. 

Bring your lawn chairs and maybe umbrellas to stay out of the sun.

Here is a list so far of those trucks who will be in attendance: Only Burger, Pie Pushers, The Parlour, KoKyu BBQ, The Grilled Cheese Bus, Parlez-Vous Crepe, Farmhand Foods, Slippin' Sliders, Klausie's Pizza, Don's Classic Ices, Sweet n Savory, Kona Ice and Locopops.

A few more trucks may RSVP before Sunday so check back for an updated list.

In conjunction with Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, they are offering a free showing Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16 at Durham Central Park.

The film will be preceded by a Food Truck Round Up starting at 6:30 p.m. under the park pavilion. Food trucks in attendance include: Farmhand Foods Sausage Wagon, Daisy Cakes, Joey D’ NY Dogs, Only Burger, Parlez-Vous Crepe, Klausie’s Pizza, Slippin’ Sliders, and The Grilled Cheese Bus.

Remember, if you are on Twitter, follow me @andreaweigl and then follow my list, Triangle Food Trucks, to keep track of their locations. Go HERE to see the list.

You could eat your way through the Triangle food truck scene in one day with these events.

There will be a food truck event from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, March 19 at Al's Garage in Carrboro. The trucks that will be there include: Captain Ponchos Tacos, Parlez Vous Crepe, Only Burger, Will and Pops, and Blue Sky Dining.

If you can't get to Carrboro, many food trucks will be gathering in Durham for the Marry Durham event starting at 4 p.m. Saturday at Motorco. The trucks include: Bulkogi Korean BBQ, Daisy Cakes, Farmhand Foods, Klausie’s Pizza, KoKyu, Lloyd’s Outside Grill, Locopops, Pie Pushers and Slippin’ Sliders.

Looking for plans Thursday night?

Big Boss Brewing Co. is hosting a food truck gathering from 5-9 p.m. in their parking lot. (Big Boss is located in an industrial park off Atlantic Avenue. The address is 1249 Wicker Dr.)

The food trucks who have confirmed their attendance include:

Only Burger: Usually parked at the Durham Farmers' Market on Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings. You can follow it on Twitter, @onlyburger, go to the website, www.durhamcatering.com/onlyburger, or call 724-1622.
Indian Food on Wheels: Usually parked on Broad Street in Durham. You can follow them via Twitter at @IndianFoodTruck
Mom's Delicious Dishes: Parked from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday at the Mobil gas station, 2929 Capital Blvd., Raleigh. You also can call 749-9290, follow it on Twitter, @MomsDishes, go to the website, www.momsdeliciousdishes.com or visit the Facebook page.
Klausie's Pizza: Follow them at @klausiespizza on twitter or visit their Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/klausiespizza

Valentino's Food Truck: Follow them at @ValentinoTruck. They often park outside Lone Rider Brewery in North Raleigh on Thursday and Friday evenings.

Food trucks are sprouting like weeds these days in the Triangle. I'm trying to keep a list of them on Twitter. If you know of one that's not on my list, send me a direct message via Twitter or send a note to andrea.weigl@newsobserver.com.

Thanks! (The more we help each other, the better we eat.)

Food Network announced the winner of their online "Great Food Truck Race" contest tonight, and Durham's Only Burger truck, which appeared to be in first place when the contest ended last week, was not declared the winner.

Only Burger and Oklahoma City's Big Truck Tacos went back and forth between first and second place in the final days of the contest, sometimes trading places several times in a single day. But for the entire final day of the contest, Only Burger held the top position and was still in the top spot when voting ended. Yet, Big Truck Tacos was named the winner tonight during the finale of "Great Food Truck Race." The winner of the contest receives $10,000 and the chance to appear on next season's "Great Food Truck Race."

All of this makes me wonder the point of Food Network's online "Leader Board" at all if it did not accurately reflect who was ahead. If it was wrong the entire last day of voting, was it ever right? Well, here's what Food Network says about it. I don't think even the food truck participants knew the Leader Board was being frozen.

Coincidentally, the winner of tonight's first season of "Great Food Truck Race" was a burger truck named Grill 'Em All.

Only Burger is still number one in our hearts.