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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 ...

Tailgating persists despite UNC rules

By Margaret Gilmore | October 2

The tents go up. The hotdogs are purchased and the George Foreman Grills are warmed. Fans decked in Carolina Blue flock to parking lots and grassy knolls ...

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 Samantha Sabin and Claire Williams | 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 ...

Tar Heel Takeout delivery service no longer accepts cash

By Su Cho | September 18

Delivery service TarHeel Takeout no longer offers the option to pay with cash, leaving people confused.

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 ...

Four students gathered outside of Deep End to stage a silent protest against Country Night's admission policy for underage males. Ana Dougherty, Trevor Dougherty, Nikola Yager. i

DJ organizes silent bar protest

By Paige Hopkins | September 17

Students used silence to make some noise with Chapel Hill bars Tuesday night.

On-campus food pantry set to open in October

By Katie Reeder | September 17

For students who go to bed hungry, their PID could be all they need to receive food.

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.

Night football games help Chapel Hill economy

By Joey DeVito | August 28

Fans are used to seeing Carolina Blue skies during football games, but this season, that will change.

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.