Tempeh Girl Order direct • 919-265-8497 • tempehgirl.com Featured at • The Pig, Chapel Hill • Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe, Chapel Hill • The Spotted Dog, Carrboro • Ninth Street Bakery’s Friday Farmstand (closed until spring), Durham After 10 minutes with tempeh maker Beth May, I’m beginning to wish I’d paid more attention in biology class. […]
Emily Matchar
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Miles of aisles: Go transcontinental at local ethnic markets
Markets galore Eastern Market Oriental Food & Gifts 505 W. Rosemary St. Chapel Hill 919-968-1703 Far East Market Brentwood Square Shopping Center • 2265 New Hope Church Road Raleigh 919-872-7489 Jerusalem Bakery & Grocery 2233 Avent Ferry Road, Suite 105 Raleigh 919-833-7008 Little India Grocery Store 4201 University Drive Durham 919-489-9084 Oriental Supermarket 3738 Durham-Chapel […]
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Gastro geography: A guide to lesser-known cuisines
If you’ve read a national food magazine lately, you might know that the Triangle is tops for Mexican food. And we have our favorite Chinese and Indian spots. But do you know where to go for, say, a Venezuelan-style hot dog? An Afghani kebab? A Singaporean noodle dish? Here are a few of our picks […]
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The Pig’s menu appeals to carnivores and, yes, even vegheads
The Pig 630 Weaver Dairy Road Chapel Hill 942-1133 Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. It would have been so easy for The Pig to cash in on the twee, retro-Americana aesthetic so many restaurants are rocking these days. You know, tables made from vintage barn wood, antlers on the walls, rusted Coca-Cola […]
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Scratch
Scratch 111 Orange St. Durham 919-956-5200 Best suited for: Your visiting foodie pals who salivate over bakers who make the news, those who mistakenly think they already know what a perfect pastry crust tastes like or a good friend who likes to linger over lunch You may have heard that Phoebe Lawless makes pies. The […]
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Kitchen
Kitchen 764 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Chapel Hill 919-537-8167 Best suited for: Francophiles who don’t mind standing in line for truly comforting bistro food As the name suggests, the food here evokes the kind of kitchen you might have if you were a better, French-er version of yourself, a self with simple but impeccable […]
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Pomegranate Kitchen
Pomegranate Kitchen 5504 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Suite 102 Durham 919-886-0356 Best suited for: Those seeking a light and healthy takeout alternative to December’s seemingly endless stream of traditional, heavy seasonal holiday fare We’ve got our fingers crossed for this brand-new takeout joint, because it’s gonna need all the luck it can get. Awkwardly located on […]
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Bella Mia
Bella Mia 2025 Renaissance Park Place Cary 919-677-3999 Best suited for: Know-it-all Yankee visitors who need the there’s-no-decent-pie-in-this-burg smirk wiped off their faces, or well-mannered Southerners ready to have their pizza worlds rocked It takes a lot to make Triangle foodie believers of some folks, especially if they hail from northern climes. Say you have […]
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Prawn stars: Local farmer leaves tobacco for seafood
“Hey, it bit me!” cried Joe Thompson, grinning as he looked at the thing in his hands. The thing looked more or less like a shrimp … a shrimp from outer space. It was about 6 inches long, with spiny blue claws, googly blue eyes and a serrated beak the size of a cocktail sword. […]
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Feminists who can
For Shana Starobin, downtime means baking bread, knitting and crocheting, picking and canning fruit, doing woodwork or tending vegetables on her rooftop garden in Durham. Starobin, a 32-year-old doctoral candidate at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, sees her favorite do-it-yourself pastimes as more than hobbies, though. “I feel, as a woman, so […]