This Feeds Me Hungry Musings of a Gastronomic Gypsy – NC-based freelance writer Victoria Bouloubasis

Spize Cafe introduces Raleigh to Asian baguettes, TriangleBlvd.tv increases its food coverage and UNC-Chapel Hill’s J-school rocks out a stellar multimedia project. You’ll get a kick out of the creative ways our community is approaching food lately. Autumn ushers in a new set of surprises this year in the Triangle. In downtown Raleigh, Spize Cafe [...]

Six-year-old Ashley Ramos-Hernandez was accidently struck and killed by an elderly driver last week in the Triangle. I’m grateful that local food blog Varmint Bites posted an announcement with the following information: Ashley’s parents are employees of Urban Food Group, working at both Vivace and Coquette.  And on Saturday, August 29, the servers, bartenders and [...]

I just stumbled upon this great piece by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (shh! I’m a Tar Heel) from this past spring. The documentary series,  Five Farms: Stories from American Families, chronicles five family farms in different states throughout one year with compelling photos and audio. Wise Family Farm in N.C. is [...]

I’ll be posting the Independent Weekly‘s Now Serving column each week. I alternate writing this column every four weeks or so with the wonderful and witty Claire Cusick. Here’s this week’s column. Highlights include Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week (eat local!). Living the buena vida by Victoria Bouloubasis When I was 19, I spent six months [...]

After much deliberation and ruminating, my brain hurts. I just want to get started. I’m a perfectionist, but I’ve finally learned that, sometimes, being such a stickler only sets boundaries. Or delays, in this case. So here I am, delving slowly but surely into the blogosphere with a food blog/idea/project I’ve been in a frenzy [...]