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

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, [...]

The New York Times sure does love Cackalacky. Durham exudes cool all over the place as #35 in the newspaper’s travel list of 41 Places to Go in 2011. What garnered the Bull City this coveted spot among the world’s most exotic locales (and only three other U.S. cities)? The food, dangit! We’re some happy [...]

My first solo DISH cover package is on stands this week. Check out where to get the best in mobile gourmet around the Triangle. We’ve got it all: Indian chaat, Korean tacos, French crepes, Mom’s homemade meatloaf, Cuban sandwiches, BBQ, fresh-squeezed juice, burgers, cupcakes and more. Plus, a gringo’s guide to tacos. Your food is [...]

When it comes to food, my friends share my obsession. My fondest recent food memories include moments with my friends in Carrboro, or La Banda, as we’ve dubbed ourselves, gathered around an oven adding spices and herbs (and our “two cents”) onto a leg of lamb,  standing at a kitchen table spreading cookies with dulce [...]

Café Helios unveils a beautiful new menu by Victoria Bouloubasis On Raleigh’s Glenwood South, where pricey cocktails and loud music reign, Café Helios (413 Glenwood Ave., 838-5177, cafehelios.com) has quietly unveiled a beautiful new menu. Chef Rob Bland, formerly of Coquette, the North Hills French brasserie, brings handmade charcuterie, seared prawns and braised pork to [...]

Original glazed lovers rejoice by Victoria Bouloubasis Last week, through a steady drizzle and just before dawn, a glaring neon sign beckoned original glazed lovers back to “Hot Krispy Kreme Now” for the first time in 45 days. After closing for remodeling, downtown Raleigh’s original Krispy Kreme (549 N. Person St., 833-3682, krispykreme.com) reopened at [...]

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 [...]

An oasis in a food desert TROSA Grocery opens in East Durham by Victoria Bouloubasis Cornbread smeared with sweet orange marmalade and live music helped mark a celebration in East Durham last week as residents welcomed the first grocery store to open in the neighborhood in at least 50 years. TROSA, the Durham-based nonprofit, opened [...]

The air is thick with thoughts of biscuits these days, and not just because The New York Times discovered Neal’s Deli this month. In a new Durham food blog, You Don’t Know Biscuits (youdontknowbiscuits.blogspot.com), Chris Rhyne Reid explores her great-grandmother’s recipes like a tragic heroine, battling the Southern cook’s classic challenge: making a perfect biscuit. [...]