Food Events: Big Bite, Indy Week

In Durham, activist Maya Wiley connects food, racial equality

Victoria Bouloubasis — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:26:59 -0500

Although we're well into the 21st century, people of color continue to experience discrimination in regards to food: access to healthy choices, the treatment of farmworkers and land ownership.

“Race is a very dark place,” food activist and former civil rights attorney Maya Wiley said at a lecture Wednesday night in Durham.…

How will the farm bill affect you? Find out tonight at Irregardless Cafe.

Lisa Sorg — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:10:15 -0500

Jared Cates of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association speaks tonight on the environmental, agricultural and nutritional implications of the federal farm bill.

The 2008 Farm Bill expired last year; although Congress failed to renew it, lawmakers extended it until a new agreement can be reached.…

The stunner and the sausage biscuit: Temple Grandin at the Carolina Meat Conference

Claire Cusick — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:16:00 -0500

Temple Grandin doesn't like the phrase "harvest plant."

It is a livestock-industry euphemism for a slaughter floor, where animals are killed for food.

"I think that's absolute B.S.," said Grandin, who has redesigned livestock handling facilities.…

Sixth annual Empty Bowls benefit for Urban Ministries

Andrew Branch — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0500

The sixth annual Empty Bowls benefit for Urban Ministries of Durham is today from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Durham Armory.

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Day 1 of Shared Tables Symposium poses bold challenge

Victoria Bouloubasis — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:02:00 -0500

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 a lecture on food and fuel, I heard this from a professor on the distinguished panel:

"We have a food system that sucks."

And then I heard it again, coming from the moderator.…

Meatless Mondays as a New Year's resolution

Lisa Sorg — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0500

If you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution that’s simpler and less taxing than sweating on the elliptical machine, pledge to go meatless each Monday in 2012.

The Meatless Monday Pledge-olution was created by Eleni Vlachos, who co-organized last year’s Bull City Vegan Challenge and hosts the annual Vegan Thanksgiving Record Party.…

Thanksgiving Prep

Emily Wallace — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:58:00 -0500

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Chefs share farm-to-table philosophy at CFSA Sustainable Agriculture Conference

Victoria Bouloubasis — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:57:00 -0500

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.…

"BURLAP: Portraits of Piedmont Farmers" at Bull City Arts Collaborative and Piedmont restaurant

Victoria Bouloubasis — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:06:00 -0500

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.…

Capital 16 Club celebrates Game Week, as in wild game, not Twister

Lisa Sorg — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:13:00 -0500

After a long election season, nothing satisfies a politico's hunger like a big slab of wild boar and a napkin the size of a head sail.

Tonight Capital 16 Club in Raleigh launches Game Week, when the menu features food you hunt in the woods or fields—as opposed to raising on farms—including wild boar, rabbit, venison and pheasant.…

On Cloud Wine: Book signing and Burgundy tasting Tuesday

Adam Sobsey — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:38:00 -0500

Who knew that the genre Memoirs By American Wine Importers would vie for its own Dewey Decimal point? Following in the footsteps, physically and literarily, of trailblazer Kermit Lynch's Adventures on the Wine Route (1988), and then, much later, Neal Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant (2008)—Lynch and Rosenthal were onetime partners, later competitors—along comes Roy Cloud and his To Burgundy and Back Again (Lyons Press, 216 pp.).…

Tonight: Visiting Chef/Writer Tamar Adler in Five Points, Raleigh

Jane Hobson Snyder — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:39:00 -0400

This evening from 7-9:30 p.m., meet Brooklyn-based chef Tamar Adler on the occasion of her new book, An Everlasting Meal, inspired by M.F.K. Fisher's classic How to Cook a Wolf. Tonight is Adler's only North Carolina appearance.…

N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 11

Emily Wallace — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:15:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 10

Emily Wallace — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:11:00 -0400

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Meet-and-Three: St. Paul's State Fair Restaurant

Emily Wallace — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:12:00 -0400

Judy Caves has worked through 100 pounds of flour in two hours. “It’s been really busy,” she says.…

N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 9

Emily Wallace — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:45:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 8

Emily Wallace — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:02:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 6

Emily Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:41:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 5

Emily Wallace — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:12:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 4

Emily Wallace — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:18:01 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 3

Emily Wallace — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:31:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 2

Emily Wallace — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:32:00 -0400

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N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 1

Emily Wallace — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:44:00 -0400

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Recipes With Refugees launches Thursday with Iraqi cooking class

Victoria Bouloubasis — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:41:06 -0400

In a food scene peppered with ethnic cuisine, Church World Service now offers people an opportunity to learn how to cook directly from natives, while giving refugee cooks a chance to share their culture in Durham.

Recipe with Refugees launches Thursday with an Iraqi cooking class led by Donia Khalas, a wife and mother of two who fled Baghdad less than two years ago.…

Jim Anile to open L'Uva at American Tobacco

Emily Wallace — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:40:00 -0400

Jim Anile, chef and owner of Durham's Revolution, has a new venture planned for the former space of Cafe Zen (410 Blackwell St., Durham) at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. L'Uva, an Italian restaurant and wine bar, is set to open in July, after Independence Day.…