The TROSA Grocery is near a prominent corner in a neighborhood that otherwise would not have a market within walking distance. Nonetheless, TROSA Grocery owners announced last week that it will soon close. “We lost over $100,000 out of our own operating costs,” said Jeff Stern, TROSA director of special projects. The store was supported […]
Victoria Bouloubasis
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Local strawberries already ripe; The Carolina Pork Experiment; Homebrewed Raleigh
Most of us have tapped into our mad scientist personas in the kitchen on more than one occasion. We’ve basted, infused, fried and stuffed all sorts of foods in hopes of making a creative culinary experiment palatable. Those of us who have succeeded understand the urge to compete. For two quirky foodie friends, this meant […]
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Recent study reveals violations in North Carolina migrant farmworker housing
A newly published research study conducted by the Center for Worker Health at Wake Forest University found violations in North Carolina migrant housing. The paper, published in the March edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, reveals several violations of the North Carolina Migrant Housing Act at the 183 labor camps that were inspected. […]
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Photo exhibit shows a hidden labor force: N.C.’s child farmworkers
Children in the fields A photo exhibit and screening of the documentary Uprooted Innocence will be held Thursday, March 29, 6–8 p.m. at Duke University’s Divinity School Refectory. The event is free and open to the public. A discussion will follow with panelists, including: • Yesenia Cuello, Milly Lima and Dany Ramirez, youth farmworkers • […]
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KoMo KoMo mixes French and Korean cuisine
KoMo KoMo 1305 NW Maynard Road Cary 919-462-3555 Lunch: Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Dinner: Monday-Saturday 5:30-9 p.m. Tea service (reservation only): Monday-Thursday 2:30-3:30 p.m. Every bitefirst and laststarts subtly at KoMo KoMo, a new Korean-French eatery in Cary. The marriage of a heavy French culinary influence and the flavors of Korea launches us into uncharted […]
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Grocery store finally coming to downtown Raleigh
Downtown Raleigh dwelling has developed a new flavor over the past five years. A reinvented community has emerged, rejuvenated with a simple promise emblazoned on marketing materials everywhere: “within walking distance.” Yet one question remains: Where’s the street with the grocery store? There isn’t one. Downtown residents still have to drive to either Cameron Village, […]
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Day 1 of Shared Tables Symposium poses bold challenge
A food symposium runs the risk of becoming a mawkish gathering of foodie intelligentsia basking in the glow of the locavore’s paradise that is here in Durham and Chapel Hill. Except on the first day of Shared Tables: A Triangle Symposium on Global and Local Food Studies, sitting in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hyde Hall listening to […]
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Ninth Street Bakery’s kombucha; The FOOD Market; Shared Tables symposium
There’s a new enterprise bubbling in the kitchen of Durham’s Ninth Street Bakery (www.ninthstbakery.com), and it has nothing to do with a yeasty bread starter. A 55-gallon tank gurgles and fizzes with kombucha, a fermented tea packed with health benefits. Owner Frank Ferrell has coined his concoction Bull City Booch. It launched at the bakery […]
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The Standard and Peccadillo
Two new bars, both former staples of local mayhem, have snuck onto the scene quietly. Peccadillo (www.peccadillo.us) in Carrboro is a tiny bar down Brewer Lane off Franklin Street, just before the train tracks. With no sign, its metal door bears a “100A” stamped in stencil and formerly opened directly into clamorous live music shows […]
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Peat and Repeat
There are ways to tell someone you love them 365 (or 366, as it were) days a year without gorging on chocolate-covered strawberries and spending hundreds of dollars on a meal. Jess Kemp of Peat and Repeat (peatandrepeat.com) provides one delightful way to do so, appealing to arty food geeks with handcrafted postcards made from […]