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

It was, of course, a delight to interview Mr. Edge. But I was equally thrilled for the excuse to dig up one of my favorite food stories of 2011, Rapping About Tamales and Deportation, written by Edge for the New York Times.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

My story on the Crop Mob ran in the Indy in October. I somehow forgot to post it (still getting a hang of the blogosphere, I guess). The Crop Mob is an amazing group of young, landless farmers. I was the first to report on them; the group was later featured on NPR and in [...]