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

A bread bakery and coffee shop quietly opened last month at 503 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill. Like a sourdough starter that requires time to bubble and flourish, Bread and Butter is rising with the demand for fresh, artisan, locally baked bread in town. Had a great time chatting with George Chen about his new [...]

Artisan ice cream in the Triangle wears many hats, and none are the pointy parlor caps you’re used to. A tattooed couple drives through town on a school bus with fresh ice cream in inventive flavors. A Mexican family brings the exotic tastes of Michoacan to Durham with fresh fruit popsicles and curdled milk ice [...]

This week’s Now Serving highlights Kukia’s Cookies, the home bakery of Kifu Faruq. She whips up organic lavender cookie varieties in the name of food justice: the former biochemist is the product of two Black Panther parents, an urban farmer and co-founder of Green Space Initiative LLC. Read more about her and try those cookies!

Rock with a homemade pimento cheese sandwich in Raleigh on Saturday. Or scour the streets for the #dumplingraid in Durham this week. Either way, eat eat! Click here for this week’s Now Serving.

“Hi. My name is Rosie Herrera, and I love you.” The feeling is mutual, mami.

Mobile eats have segued from trucks to bicycles: Three new food ventures are pedaling their way through the Triangle to offer customers yet another way to get their buzz. Read the column to find out more about Berenbaum’s bakery, the Wine Feed and bikeCOFFEE.

This week’s Now Serving column highlights Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe, winner of Best New Restaurant in Orange/Chatham County and finalist for Best Indian Restaurant and Best Chef in Orange/Chatham County. Vimala Rajendran has traveled a long, beautiful journey since I first wrote about her in 2009. She’ll be hosting a Dinner for Community Media tonight, with [...]

A lot of people in the Triangle area have asked me about volunteering at local community gardens this summer. There is a plethora of options,with a local guide to gardens here. I also wrote a piece in this year’s Indy Green Living Guide titled Gardens of goodness: Community gardens help feed low-income people, build neighborhoods. [...]

The Triangle’s only nonprofit food truck recently launched out of a former school bus. The Grilled Cheese Bus promotes community activism with low-income minority youth, one decadently gooey sandwich at a time. Read the Indy story here.

Geek out with farmer friends on Wednesday to witness the Joel Salatin speak (and chow down on the Vimala Rajendran’s food).

Insanity be damned. Here’s my latest for the Indy about Durham’s new culinary incubator, The Cookery. Check these guys out Thursday night, April 7, at their Open House.

Yep, there are some perks to what I do. Like sharing UFO-sized fried green tomatoes with Avett Brothers‘ cellist Joe Kwon at The Pig while dishing on local pork and sustainable agriculture. Read the story to find out what the guys eat on tour, and what Joe loves to blog about. (Fun fact: there’s a [...]

This week’s Now Serving column details events and agricultural workshops that give you a chance to participate in (literal) ground breaking as our local food movement evolves. Ever wanted to learn how to start a community garden, keep bees and chickens, plant potatoes or picnic with a baby goat? Read the column and dig in.

In this week’s Now Serving, I write about homemade treats for that weird love holiday that will incite you to really love your neighbors. Discover savory cookies to pair with local microbrews, modern Peruvian confections and raw chocolate to awaken the senses, all handmade in the Triangle. Read about them and adore, err, order your [...]

A couple of published news pieces today. Have you checked out the Sunday brunch at Motorco Music Hall? Free live music, bacon Bloody Marys and KoKyu BBQ sliders. I’ve dubbed it Sunday Slurp and Slide. Check out my Indy Big Bite post about it here. In this week’s Now Serving, The Mecca adds late-night hours, [...]