Julia Wertz/The New Yorker
Ever stand in front of a food truck at 3 a.m. and wonder just how you got there? While a satisfying answer to that question might always elude you, the same cannot be said for the truck.
The New Yorker highlights this truth in its pictorial documentation of the food cart's 300-plus year history in the city — all the way from its early days when it was led by an actual horse to its present, normally motorized and grease-wielding state: