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Pizza places populate Franklin

By Maryam Mohamed | October 24

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Small, large, circle, square, thin crust, stuffed crust or with extra toppings.

New delivery service UberEATS arrives in Chapel Hill

By Mattias Miller | October 16

UberEats, a delivery service platform powered by Uber, became available for Chapel Hill and the Triangle area last Wednesday.

NCPIRG relaunches antibiotic campaign in aim to flip the food marketplace

By Summer Epps | October 9

With a mission to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism, UNC’s North Carolina Public Interest Research Group chapter actively ...

The Really Really Free Market, an anti-capitalist event, held its monthly gathering on Saturday, marking thirteen years in Carrboro.

Carrboro Market offers really really free community bonding and support

By Marin Wolf | October 8

The afternoon air was hot and humid as David Deming, a bus driver for the Town of Chapel Hill, tended to a pan of hot dogs set on top of an open flame. ...

Harvest moon casts light on food insecurities

By Marine Elia | October 5

As the bright Harvest moon fills the Carolina sky, the Forest Theatre reveals an impeccably earthy setting surrounded by stone and greens inviting UNC ...

Local seafood market supports coastal NC fishers every Wednesday

By Ashley Peterson | October 5

Walking into Tom Robinson’s Seafood shop is like being transported to an old-fashioned fish market. The sharp smell of fish fills the air and customers ...

Owner of Carrburritos, Rae Fairbanks Mosher, stops and smiles out on the patio of her restaurant.

Carrburritos still rolling forward 20 years later

By Maryam Mohamed | October 5

Rae Fairbanks Mosher, never thought she would be a business owner. But now, as the owner and manager of Carrburritos — a restaurant in Carrboro ...

It's a Coffee World at UNC, but where does that coffee come from?

By Simrann Wadhwa | October 4

UNC students have become accustomed to studying in the small coffee shops in the nooks and corners of Carrboro and Franklin Street. The many cafés in ...

Roderick Gladney (right), founder and chairman of Carolina Cupboard, an organization that provides free food to the UNC campus community, helps recruit new members in the Pit in October 2014. DTH file photo by Johanna Ferebee.

Rising numbers of college students experiencing basic needs insecurity

By Keely Hendricks | October 3

With the high prices of college tuition, a growing number of students are experiencing food and housing insecurity in both community colleges and four-year ...

Pizza places abound on Franklin Street

By Kari Larsen | October 3

MidiCi will join the eight pizza restaurants on Franklin Street. The California-based pizza chain is to open in the winter under Top of the Hill ...

The new Al's Burger Shack location in Southern Village had their first business day Monday.

Al takes a bite out of Chapel Hill business scene

By Erik Beene | September 21

From the moment he got behind a grill, Al Bowers knew he had a love for the food industry. Years after discovering his passion, Bowers is now the owner ...

Maple View community unites to aid hurricane victims

By Maria Elena Vizcaino | September 17

Orange County residents stopped at Maple View Farm Ice Cream this weekend to drop off relief items, which were loaded into 26-foot U-Haul trucks and are ...

Chapel Hill resident Richard Crump competes in the 2017 DSI Watermelon Eating Contest.

Chapel Hill holds watermelon eating contest

By Chantal Shine | July 6

Richard Crump slogged through watermelon guts to find glory as the winner of this year's DSI Watermelon Eating Contest, held in Kenan Memorial Stadium ...

Protest against Wendy's raises awareness for farmworker abuses

By Rebecca Ayers | July 1

UNC students, members of Student Action with Farmworkers and other local residents joined the farmworker leaders of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ...

Carolina Cupboard prepares to move into new pantry location in the fall

By Eva Ellenburg | April 24

Carolina Cupboard has postponed its move into another room of Avery Hall’s basement until the Week of Welcome in fall 2017.

At the FedEx Global Center on Monday night, students in the Arabic Program hosted a friendly cooking competition and shared a large spread of both traditional Arabic dishes and other miscellaneous treats.

Cook-off immerses students in Arabic culture

By Nicole Booth | April 24

The Arabic program hosted its first ever cooking competition Monday night..

The campus organization, Q for the Kids, put on a fundraiser to raise funds for the “No Kid Hungry” project which is striving to alleviate hunger across North Carolina.

Eats 101 continues barbecue event to fight food insecurity

By Paige Nehls | April 21

One in four kids face food insecurity in North Carolina, according to No Kid Hungry North Carolina. To educate and help solve this issue, the Eats 101 ...

Protesters arriving at Wendy's on-campus location.

Protesters march against Wendy's for fair food and farmworkers rights

By Madeleine Fraley | March 27

Students, farmworkers and activists for workers’ rights marched through campus to the beat of guitar music and “boycott Wendy’s” chants Monday ...

Kristen Wagner, the co-chair of the event, paints on one of the blocks in the pit in hopes of publicizing for the The Great Carolina Cook-Off.

'Great Carolina Cook-Off' aims raise awareness for food insecurity

By Danielle Bush | March 22

On March 30, Hope Gardens is hosting The Great Carolina Cook-Off, in which eight student organizations will showcase their culinary talents in the hopes ...

Laura Mindlin, Edible Campus Initiative Coordinator.

UNC focuses on 'food for all' for third year of campus-wide theme

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | March 22

For a third year, the UNC pan-university theme, “Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives,” will bring initiatives and activities to campus — ...