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

Right Up His Alley from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo. For one week in June, I spent 12-hour days immersing myself in the Documentary Video Institute at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. I had never toyed with a video camera before, let alone Final Cut Pro. Neither had my project partner. But [...]

Appetites for cool treats are strong Locopops to Locopints by Victoria Bouloubasis Sticky summer air has seeped into our lives. Our gardens are flourishing and our appetites for cool treats are strong. Locopops (128 E. Franklin St. and 231 S. Elliott Road, Chapel Hill; 2600 Hillsborough Road, Durham; 1908 Hillsborough St., Raleigh; www.ilovelocopops.com) makes the [...]

Joel Salatin let out a big-bellied laugh in front of more than 600 people while serving on a speaker panel at Meredith College last month. A sense of urgency escaped from his jovial, Southern lilt, as the celebrated sustainable farmer delivered tongue-in-cheek opinions unabashedly. “I don’t know why [farming's] not sexy. To me, a hoop [...]