Rex MillerFile photo of Chapel Hill’s Lantern Restaurant, 2007 A group of Southern agriculture enthusiasts—advocates, if you will—descended upon Durham this past weekend for Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s 26th annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference. The Pittsboro-based nonprofit advocates for and helps create sustainable food systems within the Carolinas. What sort of folks spend three days in […]
Victoria Bouloubasis
Bio: Victoria Bouloubasis is the INDY Week food editor.Link: http://www.victoriabouloubasis.comEmail: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/thisfeedsme
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“BURLAP: Portraits of Piedmont Farmers” at Bull City Arts Collaborative and Piedmont restaurant
On a recent afternoon at Durham’s Piedmont restaurant, I noticed a towering version of a familiar face. George O’Neal, the somewhat proverbial young farmer of Lil’ Farm, was suspended from the ceiling in the form of a powerful and serious 16-inch-by-24-inch rectangular photograph. His image is part of a row of 15 portraits using local […]
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Report details plight of North Carolina’s tobacco workers
The basis of the report Earlier this fall, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and Oxfam America released “A state of fear: Human rights abuses in North Carolina’s tobacco industry” (click link to download report PDF). In its investigation, FLOC focused on workers who do not have H-2A visas, temporary work permits for agricultural migrant workers. […]
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The New Southern-Latino Table author Sandra A. Gutierrez
Sandra A. Gutierrez The New Southern-Latino Table Thursday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Cary Commons For the food-obsessed, snuggling up to The New Southern-Latino Table cookbook is akin to a new love affair. It comes with all the warmth of tender familiarity while simultaneously sparking […]
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Bread and Butter opens in Chapel Hill
Bread & Butter Facebook Twitter A bread bakery and coffee shop quietly opened last month at 503 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill. Like a sourdough starter that requires time to bubble and flourish, Bread and Butter is rising with the demand for fresh, artisan, locally baked bread in town. “I’m slowly rolling it out […]
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MachuPicchu’s vibrant and varied Peruvian cuisine
MachuPicchu Peruvian Cuisine 4500 Falls of Neuse Road, Suite 100 Raleigh 919-526-PERU Tuesday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. & 5-9 p.m. Friday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday noon-9 p.m. Sunday noon-8 p.m. Folks like mepeople who love the chase of an elusive, foreign flavordo things like drive up Interstate 95 to troll under the 7 train bridge in […]
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Bull City Chickens’ Coop Tour, Chickenstock and Eggalicious!
In the vein of Raleigh’s annual springtime Hen-side the Beltline Tour d’Coop, Bull City Chickens (bullcitychickens.com), a group of henhouse enthusiasts in Durham, has announced its first Bull City Coop Tour for Saturday, Oct. 22. Thirteen of the city’s chicken coops will be open to visitors from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Some are part […]
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Monuts Donuts and This & That Jam
There was a hole in Durham’s food scene, apparently, that needed to be filled. Enter Monuts Donuts (www.monutsdonuts.com), the city’s latest street food purveyor, serving homemade doughnuts from a giant tricycle. The one-woman business is run by Lindsay Moriarty, known as Mo, who grew up surrounded by culinary imagination. As a kid, while her father […]
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Donia’s feast: Cooking lessons from an Iraqi refugee
On my first visit to the Khalaf family home in Durham, Donia opens the door and apologizes. “The smell is so strong,” she says. A stovetop gurgle emanates from the kitchen, the sound effect to the scent of garlic and tomato trailing toward the front door. Donia looks at me with a concerned smile, her […]
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Creative Food Drive; World Beer Festival; Cook For Good; Local Foods Feast
Remember the Barrel Monster? For all of us who thought the idea was brilliant, here’s our chance to create our own monsters, or any other fun sculpturelegally and for a great cause. The Creative Food Drive (creativefooddrive.weebly.com) on Oct. 15 at the Durham Farmers’ Market pavilion pits teams against one another in a competition to […]