Eat & Drink
This spring, Boro Beverage’s Mother Brewer Carly Erickson mobilizes her kombucha operation with a newly renovated camper, The Mothership. The successful completion of her Kickstarter campaign provided Carly with the funds to take her probiotic beverages on the road and straight to your doorstep. “I really love the idea of pop-up […]
Walking on Franklin Street recently, you may have noticed Carolina Brewery’s new look. Not only are there updated outdoor seating options and planters expertly designed by Katy Poitras at Katy Wood Landscape Design, but the brewery also added two huge rolling windows to the face of the restaurant and an […]
THE NOVICE CHEFS This summer, Midway Community Kitchen offered cooking camps for budding foodies in town. We caught up with a few campers as they cooked their way through Asia. Djina, 8 WHAT I LIKE ABOUT COOKING I like that you get to explore by smelling and tasting. LESSONS I’VE […]
“Where do you eat with your kids?” We posed this question to our staff whose children range in age from young toddlers to college age. “Taking a kid out is always tough!” says Senior VP of Publishing Rory Gillis. “I think my kid is pretty well behaved for a 1-and-a-half-year-old, […]
Transplanting Traditions When refugees began arriving in Chapel Hill from Myanmar around 2007, they struggled to cook unfamiliar American vegetables and hungered for traditional foods that would keep them culturally connected. Families who continue to arrive from Burma are just as eager to access familiar foods. But today, they know […]
Before the Carrboro Farmers’ Market opened in 1977 and way before “farm to fork” dining was taken for granted here, fresh local veggies were not so easy to come by. Back in the day, our best source was Fowler’s Food Store, a stone’s throw from the more pedestrian A&P downtown […]
“My fondest food memory is my great-aunt Clotilda, who would make the pilgrimage from Florida every summer when I was a kid. Being part of a large Italian family, food was central to everything that we did and [every occasion we would] gather around a plate of food. At the […]
Surrounded by acres of produce and poultry, Jamie DeMent’s obvious next step was authoring a cookbook. She and partner Richard Holcomb have run Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough since 2004 and they own Bella Bean Organics and Piedmont Restaurant in Durham. “It’s something I’d been working on in the background […]
Dan Friedman has opened up a new chocolate boutique shop in Chapel Hill’s Timberlyne Shopping Center. The shop, Special Treats, offers gourmet chocolates, cookies, biscotti and much more made by adults with disabilities around the country. Dan, who just retired from the investment business in Chapel Hill, has an adult […]
For as long as Amanda Fisher can remember, she’s been attracted to a particular style of traveling. “I’d always loved road trips and seeking out those off-the-beaten-path, hole in the wall places,” says the 2004 UNC grad. “Barbecue is so good for that. Those places get you into the small towns […]
