Four local restaurants have made this year’s Bon Appètit “Best” lists and we couldn’t be prouder. Catch up on the details with our past INDY coverage. “The Best New Bakeries in America 2016″ BOULTED BREAD Earlier this year, we declared Raleigh’s Boulted Bread the “best place to get excited about bread” if merely for its […]
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Pigs Are Big Business in North Carolina. Author Brad Weiss Argues for Slower Pork.
Brad Weiss Saturday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m. Midway Community Kitchen, Chapel Hill www.flyleafbooks.com Friday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m. Left Bank Butchery, Saxapahawwww.leftbankbutchery.com Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop, Durhamwww.regulatorbookshop.com North Carolina is home to more hogs than people, and pork is one of the state’s top agricultural exports. Pastured pork is a form […]
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Exploring the Downside of Food Culture’s Authenticity Obsession with Jose and Sons’ Oscar Diaz
El Taco Market 3800 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh 919-250-0412 “This plasticware is on point.” Oscar Diaz cuts through a huarache, his one-liner sharper than his white plastic knife, which is now bent after digging into the thick, chewy masa. Diaz runs the kitchen at Jose and Sons, the premier Mexican-Southern restaurant in downtown Raleigh, owned […]
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With Berries in Demand, Local Co-ops Won’t Budge to Support Driscoll’s Boycott
This week, community members supporting farmworkers organized a small letter-writing campaign asking the Durham Co-op Market and Carrboro’s Weaver Street Market to boycott Driscoll’s berries and remove the product from their shelves. According to managers at each store, the Durham Co-op received at least two dozen letters from customers, while Weaver Street received eight, four […]
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El Chapin, North Carolina’s Only Guatemalan Restaurant, Is Worth the Strip-Mall Trip
El Chapin 4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham 919-908-7975 “You come to this country without any money.” Rony Ordoñez is frank about this collective immigrant experience. But as dashes of afternoon sunlight bounce off the celestial blue paint on the wall behind him, it’s evident that he can now share this truth with levity, in his […]
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On Tuesday, a Longtime Durhamite Celebrates Twenty Years at Ninth Street Bakery
If you frequent Ninth Street Bakery in downtown Durham for your morning coffee, you’ve likely been greeted as “darling” or “sweetheart” by Jacqueline Wilkins. Depending on how long you’ve been self-identifying as a Durhamite (as Wilkins does), this might have been your morning routine for two decades. “The people I see every day, I’ve seen […]
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The Food Truck Boricua Soul Raises Interesting Questions About Authenticity—and Now, Answers Them
Boricua Soul The food we eat is personal. It defines our very corephysically, emotionally, mentally. When we share food, we share the intimacy of our cultures, the people we love, and the people who have loved us with the communities we’ve created. For me, as a Greek-American, food is how I express my ancestral, ancient […]
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Thanks to Immigrant Populations, Curious Chefs, and Risky Farmers, the Borders of Local Ingredients Are Open
One curious difficulty in defining local food comes from the fact that many of the fruits and vegetables we grow at homeeven those so commonplace they seem to be a part of the region’s very lorearen’t even native to North Carolina. Consider the varieties of heirloom tomatoes now available at farmers markets. Commonly mistaken as […]
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Eco Farm and Lil’ Farm Sort Through the Rewards and Outrages of Small-Time Organic Farming
When George O’Neal decided to become a farmer more than a decade ago, no one told him it was going to be easyespecially not his mentor, John Soehner. Collectively, the two have farmed for more than thirty years, coaxing stubborn North Carolina clay to sprout literal tons of fresh food, nurtured without the use of […]
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UNC’s Beloved Daily Grind Coffee Shop to Close at the End of June
Daily Grind, on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill, fueled many of my nights while I crammed for finals during my undergraduate years. Open since 1993, it was the place I first tried an Americano and learned to wait before I topped coffee with a lid, instead sipping on the crema while it swirled in odd […]