(Photo: Joe Fornabaio/New York Times/Redux)

The annual return of the Red Hook food vendors is not unlike the six-month season at Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli—each presents a fleeting opportunity for culinary rapture and requires something of a trek. Make yours on May 2, when ten purveyors of traditional Latin American street foods wheel their Department of Health–approved vehicles to the intersection of Bay and Clinton Streets, where you’ll find them weekends through late October.

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