Food Issue -

Food takes over as campus research theme

By Olivia Bane | February 6

Food brings people together — regardless of culture, language, age, race or religion.

Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market exploring alternative location

By Sarah Crump | January 29

The Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market wants to keep its University Mall home — but its future at the location remains uncertain.

UNC dining halls seek food without factory

By Tyler Fleming | January 21

James West stands in the dark on a cold January morning. He has an old heater going as he smokes a cigarette. It is 7 a.m., and it’s time to feed the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...