MOFU Shoppe 321 South Blount Street, Raleighwww.facebook.com/mofushoppe Pho Nomenal Dumplings has come a long way since Sunny Lin and Sophia Woo started it in 2014. Only one year into business, the lavender-hued food truck entered Season 6 of The Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race—and won, earning a $50,000 prize. Now the folks behind Pho […]
Emma Laperruque
Bio: Emma Laperruque is a freelance writer. She writes about food at www.dourmet.com.
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Cook with This: Boxcarr Handmade Cheese’s Campo Tastes Like Italy by Way of Cedar Grove
Boxcarr Handmade Cheese began only two years ago, but it’s already become a beloved, salty, creamy, gooey fixture in over a dozen states. Lucky for us, North Carolina is the one with the most access. The micro, family company, which was started by brother and sister Austin and Samantha Genke, is based in Cedar Grove, […]
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The Golden Goose Food Truck Serves Authentic American-Chinese Food, Not Inauthentic Chinese Food
THE GOLDEN GOOSE 703 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham 5:30–midnight Wed.–Sun. 919-972-8659 www.goldengoosedurham.com In the Hunan province of China you’ll find General Tso’s museum, General Tso’s hotel, General Tso’s elementary school, even General Tso’s liquor. But there’s no General Tso’s chicken. That sticky-sweet, deep-fried dish that most Americans associate with Chinese food? It’s notwell, not reallyChinese food. […]
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India Reigns over Britain in the Colonial Fantasyland of Durham’s Viceroy
VICEROY 335 West Main Street, Durham www.viceroydurham.com “On a scale from one to six,” the server asks, “how spicy would you like the daal?” Inevitably, this feels like a trick question. In an Indian-British pubin downtown Durhamdo the numbers align with Indian, British, or American standards? And when the server says she’s a six, do […]
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Beyond Bourbon Balls
Like you, dessert is more fun when it’s tipsy. Think of it this way: Sober karaoke. Martini karaoke. Sober bread pudding. Rum bread pudding. Sober brunch. Bloody Mary brunch. Sober pears. Wino pears. See? Here are four recipes to put those straggling post-holiday home-bar ingredients to good usebeyond cocktails and, yes, beyond bourbon balls. RED […]
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Fullsteam Ahead: Durham Brewery Finally Unrolls Food Menu This Weekend
On Friday night, Fullsteam started to unroll its latest undertaking: a food program. The almost seven-year-old brewery has always been a dynamic space in Durham, with board and arcade games, various events, from concerts to trivia night to yoga classes, and local food trucks, like Pie Pushers and American Meltdown. But as of this weekend, […]
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Living Kitchen Reinvigorates Vegan Food—And You Wouldn’t Even Know It
Minimalism is having a moment. “Tiny” is an architectural style (micro-apartments, tiny houses). “Declutter” is a design aesthetic (white walls, a succulent or two, zero tchotchkes). In the culinary world, what isn’t in your fridge and pantry matters more than what is. Living Kitchena restaurant native to Charlotte, now with two sister locations in Raleigh […]
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Two Hundred Varieties of Brown Booze and Southern Cooking Shine Together at Whiskey Kitchen
Whiskey Kitchen 201 West Martin Street, Raleigh www.whiskey.kitchen Whiskey Kitchen doesn’t care that it’s winter. Neither, it seems, does the woman sitting with crossed bare legs across the dining room, shoulder-to-shoulder with her date at a booth. Nor do the friends tucked at a table amid the bar crowd, digging in to a seafood boil […]
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Cook This: Big Spoon’s Latest Peanut Butter Spices Up Sweet and Savory Recipes
Mark Overbay has been thinking about Hot Peanut since he started Big Spoon Roasters in 2011. He stumbled upon the flavor more than a decade before thatin 1999 in Zimbabwe, where he lived and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer. There, his local neighbors roasted peanuts over an open fire, smashed them into butter by […]
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Scott Crawford Refused to Sell Us a Plate of Food at Crawford and Son
I expected to spend hours at Crawford and Son, the new restaurant from four-time James Beard semifinalist Scott Crawford, to review it for the INDY. Instead, I was there for barely twenty minutes before being told to leave. We were late for our reservation, made under my partner’s name. As he greeted the host, she […]
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