The chef behind acclaimed M Sushi, M Kokko, and M Tempura will open a new restaurant, M Pocha, in downtown Durham on July 2.
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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To Preserve Vanishing Black-Owned Farms, the Black Farmers Market Wants to Give Them Access
“Black folks have a complicated relationship to growing, and to land, and to farming.”
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All Aboard the Sausage Wagon: The Tour de Pork Has Returned for A Second Run
Renew your “passpork” and rack up your Piggy Points.
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18 Seaboard Will Close Next Month After a 14-Year Run
You have until July 2 to get your fix of 18 Seaboard’s contemporary Southern fare.
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With HB 363, Small N.C. Breweries Get a Big Win That’s Been a Long Time Coming
But for most of them, it won’t matter.
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Cary Celebrates the Caviar of the South at the Pimento Cheese Festival
“You don’t really top pimento cheese with anything. You just let the flavor soak in there, baby.”
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Chirba Chirba’s Truck Was Stolen. Six Hours and $10,000 Later, They Got It Back.
To thank the community for its support, owner Nate Adams says he plans to open a brick-and-mortar.
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Should You Boycott Peabody Pizza Place Because One of the New Co-Owners Is a Sex Offender?
Convicted of soliciting a fourteen-year-old girl for sex, Jamie Greaves says he was catfished by an undercover cop and “had a lapse in judgment.”
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After a Disastrous Oral Surgery, a Baker and Food Journalist Learns to Eat with her Eyes
“The complication giving me the most grief was painless—in fact, it was free of any feeling at all.”
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Hopscotch 2018: Thundercat’s Ferocious, Freewheeling Experiments Launch him Toward Exciting New Universes
From his music to his outlandish fashion sense to his sometimes too honest Twitter feed (“These farts are getting pretty violent,” read one dispatch from April), Steven Brunerbetter known by his stage name Thundercatis unapologetically himself. Take “DUI,” the last track on his 2017 album Drunk. The song is quintessential Thundercatconcise, rooted in jazz, simultaneously […]