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Community kitchen coming to Rosemary Street

By Derrick Bills | November 17

Kathy Gunn knows better than most that no matter who someone is or where he or she comes from, everybody can agree on one thing: Food brings people together. ...

UNC, Duke join forces to push healthy eating

By Anica Midthun | November 7

As millions of families on food stamps nationwide struggle to eat healthily, UNC and Duke University have launched a collaborative effort to educate these ...

Bars that apply to be "private clubs" do not have to get sanitation inspections. Zog's Art Bar and Pool Hall is a private club on Henderson Street.

Skirting the health standard

By Joey DeVito | October 6

Deems Wilson was surprised when, shortly after starting his job as manager of West End Wine Bar, he was told the business didn’t get inspected by the ...

2014 Pepper Festival's best dish/beer winners receive a honorary shovel. Angela's Kitchen won best food and Regulator took the title for best pepper beer.7th annual Pepper Festival in Chapel Hill. 7th annual Pepper Festival in Chapel Hill.

Sweet and spicy peppers attract locals to Amazing Pepper Festival

By Christine Bang | October 6

The Seventh Annual Amazing Pepper Festival returned to Chapel Hill Sunday with local, organic, pepper-infused food and drinks.

Orange County proposes food council

By Meg Garner | October 2

As a county that prides itself on eating locally grown produce and foods, Orange County agreed this week to join the growing trend of municipalities with ...

Top of the Hill owner drafts bill to sell liquor after distillery tours

By Breanna Kerr and Jordan Nash | October 1

A Chapel Hill business owner is challenging the massive power of the N.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Commission — a group that marks up the cost of ...

UNC's dining halls composted 539 tons of food waste in 2013-14 fiscal year

By Caroline Leland | October 1

Every day in Top of Lenoir, hundreds of students line up at the conveyor belt to drop off plates piled high with unwanted pizza crusts, rejected pot roast ...

Q&A with "American Wasteland" author Jonathan Bloom

By Caroline Leland | October 1

As part of The Daily Tar Heel's Projects and Investigations Team's Food Issue, Senior Writer Caroline Leland spoke to Jonathan Bloom, the award-winning ...

Orange County restaurant inspection ratings to appear on Yelp pages

By Nick Niedzwiadek | October 1

Restaurant inspections have long revealed the dirtier side of the food industry, including the restaurants frequented by residents of Chapel Hill.

Blue Ocean Market provides seasonal seafood, including fish like pink and vermillion red snapper (above), to restaurants and consumers near its location in Morehead City and to the Triangle area.

Local chefs try to support North Carolina fishermen

By Jaclyn Lee and Bob Bryan | October 1

It’s about a three-hour drive to the nearest coastline from Chapel Hill — 162 miles to Wilmington, 178 miles to Atlantic Beach and longer to ...

Carolina Dining Services debt burden to increase with upgrades

By Claire Williams and Samantha Sabin | October 1

The debt Carolina Dining Services has sitting on its books is unusual for a University of its size, but that hasn’t stopped administrators from crafting ...

Clark Cunningham is a senior biochemistry and biology major from Chapel Hill.

Column: What do you mean, "toxic"?

By Clark Cunningham | October 1

If the intense competition for treadmills at the Student Recreation Center and the line for the salad bar at the Top of Lenoir have taught me anything, ...

Meals on Wheels food truck rodeo coming to Carrboro

September 26

Meals on Wheels drives around Chapel Hill and Carrboro every weekday, delivering food to senior citizens and people with disabilities. It also raises ...

Hungry students find help at TABLE

By Morgan Swift | September 18

Hundreds of Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary school students do not have to worry about going hungry on the weekends, thanks to the nonprofit organization ...

Local restaurants celebrate veganism

September 16

A nonprofit is hoping a night out on the town will help educate people about the vegan diet.

All up in your business for Sept. 12, 2014

By Wei Zhou | September 12

In celebration of its first anniversary, Al’s Burger Shack hosted a burger recipe contest and selected the cook-off winners on Wednesday. 

Laila Williams, eight years old, gets her face painted at the Weaver Street Co-Op Fair in Carborro.

Co-op fair highlights community ownership

By Mary Taylor Renfro | September 1

Weaver Street Market’s co-op structure can be a bit of a mystery to customers who aren’t sure exactly what a “co-op number” is.

22 companies collaborated this weekend to create the North Carolina state beer at Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough.

Erica Tieppo, from Detroit, Michigan, works with the beer through its fermentation process.

Franklin Street breweries help craft NC state beer

By Mary Helen Moore | August 25

Two Chapel Hill breweries teamed up with 20 other members of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild this weekend to create North Carolina’s first state ...

Students are venturing into the world of mixology

By Paige Hopkins | August 24

UNC students bring Chapel Hill bars and clubs to life. And many of them are doing so from behind the counter.

UNC Fan Shop has opened between Vespa Restaurant and Launch.

All up in your business, August 19, 2014

By Holly West and Zoe Schaver | August 19

After almost 50 years in the University Square development, Chapel Hill Barber Shop has relocated to the Courtyard.