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

I have a very long way to go before I can actually say I know how to bake. I’ve got the phyllo bases covered – baklava, spanakopita – and have dabbled in bread making for a couple month-long stints on farms. But I leave cakes and pastries to professionals, including a few favorite cupcake nooks [...]

It slipped my mind to post this on the site. How could I have forgotten about my day with a former boy-bander turned food personality? Thanks to Chirba Chirba, the Triangle’s official dumpling raid on wheels, I spent some time hanging out with the Chirba crew and Joey while he filmed for his new show, [...]

Chocolate has a convoluted history tantamount to the saga and intrigue of a tragic heroine. Powerful men throughout time, be it Aztec kings or Spanish emperors, pursued her with vigor–an elusive object deemed precious, indulgent. European conquerors claimed to discover cacao in a world they assumed to be new, cheapening her title as “food of [...]

The latest DISH issue focuses on food made by hand. One of my contributions was a look at the homemade pasta artisans here in the Triangle. The allure of fresh pasta features Porcino of Carrboro, Dur’m Pasta Co. of Durham and Melina’s Fresh Pasta of Raleigh. Each purveyor had a passionate story to tell, including [...]