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Food & Drink

Franklin Street restaurants feed growing food tourism industry

By Courtney Brown | March 26

If the James Beard Foundation Awards are the Oscars of food prizes, then two Franklin Street chefs are on the red carpet.

Activists encourage buying pricier sustainable, local, organic food

By Christopher Sopher | March 17

Though it is likely to cost more, food activists are pushing people to buy sustainable, local and organic food anyway. “Finding ways to spend our ...

Chickens roam cage-free at Cane Creek Farm in Snow Camp on Tuesday. DTH/Mary Lide Parker

1.5.0 brings local food to Lenoir

By Stewart Boss | March 16

1.5.0., the newest restaurant at Lenoir Mainstreet, is known for advertising the farms its products come from and how the food being served each day was ...

Alice Ammerman, a professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, is leading the research project. DTH/Arrard Cole

Alice Ammerman's plan for your food

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

Alice Ammerman is the type of person who cooks cabbage for school fundraisers.

The Food Equation: From the farm to the shelves

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

Renee and Randall Parker of Parker Farms went from farming tobacco to keeping pasture-raised hogs. Renee discusses the benefits and challenges of sustainable ...

1.5.0. is UNC's largest attempt at sustainable dining

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

When Carolina Dining Services first started offering sustainable food last year, the menus looked a lot like what they were already serving.

The Food Equation: A look at 1.5.0.

By Nick Brenton and Christopher Sopher | March 15

Paul Basciano, executive chef at Carolina Dining Services, gives us a look at 1.5.0, the new restaurant in Lenoir Dining Hall.

Map: The farms that provide food to 1.5.0. restaurant

By Sara Gregory | March 14

Lenoir's newest restaurant, 1.5.0., gets all of its food from farms within 150 miles of Chapel Hill. This map shows which farms supply which products. ...

Orange County food project seeks resident input

By Liz Marrow | March 2

The local food movement in Orange County just got a $30,000 boost. The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project awarded the Orange County Cooperative ...

Food forum questions corporate influence in what we eat

By Stewart Boss | February 24

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That proved to be the theme of Tuesday’s public forum hosted by The Parr Center for Ethics, ...

Community support key for area farmers

By Dave Pearson | August 18

Saturday mornings and Wednesday afternoons in Carrboro are a chance to see firsthand the changing face of farming. Community Supported Agriculture is ...

'Grow Down' emphasizes environmental initiatives

By Anita Rao | March 31

At the co-op’s Garden Grow Down on Friday, Francis and others made prayer flags about their wishes for the environment and the world. With a cakewalk ...

Carolina Garden group invites students to eat green

By Anita Rao | March 28

Every springtime week, the Carolina Garden Co-op meets to eat dishes incorporating the vegetables and herbs they grow themselves on campus, such as carrots, ...

Tours highlight life on the farm

By Catarina Saraiva | April 23

This weekend, as part of the 12th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, 34 sustainable agriculture farms, including Matheny’s Genesis Farm, welcomed visitors ...

Consumers squeal for rare little piggies

By SAPNA MAHESHWARI | February 22

If the many varieties of North Carolina barbecue are any indication, the Old North State knows its pork. So it’s no surprise that Mebane is home ...