About me
I used to live in Brooklyn, NY. In 2008, my husband and I moved to Chapel Hill, NC. I miss NYC lots. I think about food constantly and talk about it lots. If you like any of that stuff I just mentioned you might like my site. Fingers crossed.You liked that? Read this.
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Category Archives: Slow Food
God loves the ugliest vegetables. And creatures.
Last night, I was trying to remember the name of the ugliest thing from God’s lovely earth that I have ever seen, the geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck). I finally remembered it, but not before my Google Images search for “ugliest vegetables” … Continue reading →
Posted in Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Daily Specials, Durham locavore, Durham small business, Events, Food and Booze, Gadgets & Gear, Locavore, North Carolina art stuff, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Recipes, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Triangle Locavore
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Tagged Asheville, Bargains, Beer, booze events, Brooklyn, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, cheese, Chocolate, cocktails, Durham, Homemade, New York City, North Carolina, Pork, Restaurants, Triangle art events
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Mother’s Day
I’ve got Mother’s Day on the brain this morning. While my fabulous mother deserves to be jetted off to some paradise like this for five days, my factory outlet wallet can only afford something more along the lines of this, … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Durham locavore, Durham small business, Food and Booze, Gadgets & Gear, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Triangle Locavore
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, Beer, booze events, Brooklyn, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Durham, Homemade, New York City, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork, Restaurants
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Now serving: Vic Pop via Orange Zest on Chapelboro.com!
Can’t get enough Vic Pop in your life? Starting this week you can find a whole new site with Victus Populi-style words of wisdom and good eating. 1360 WCHL has launched Chapelboro.com, a hyper-local news resource for all things Chapel … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Daily Specials, Events, Food and Booze, Gadgets & Gear, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Slow Food, Southern Food, Triangle Locavore, Uncategorized
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, Beer, booze events, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Chocolate, cocktails, Homemade, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork, Restaurants
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Tuscaloosa
I was 14 when I moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama from Atlanta. My mother got a job teaching at the University and we didn’t have a lot of money, so we decided to live downtown near the school, about 5 blocks … Continue reading →
Posted in About Us, Events, Food and Booze, Locavore, Recipes, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Uncategorized
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Good luck, Downtown Raleigh Farmers Market!
Today begins the Downtown Raleigh Farmers Market season. They’re celebrating the launch of their second season with a Spring Fling Kickoff that includes all sorts of free treats and live music today at their new home in City Plaza, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Daily Specials, Events, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina art stuff, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Recipes, Slow Food, Southern Food, Triangle Locavore
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Chocolate, Durham, Homemade, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork, Restaurants
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Another reason to be BIG ON THE PIG
Southerners are sorta obsessed with Piggly Wiggly®, the nation’s first self-service grocery store. In addition to having a nonsensical name, a treasured thing in proper noun-age in the south, the grocery store chain evokes a bit of that I-don’t-know-what charm of … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Daily Specials, Durham locavore, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Triangle Locavore
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Tagged Bargains, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Chocolate, Durham, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork
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Two great new reasons to visit the Carrboro Farmers’ Market
A girl can only handle so many baby lettuce vendors. Last Saturday on my visit to Carrboro Farmers’ Market, I found two new products that keep this market feeling fresh. Big Spoon Roasters - Locally crafted nut butters blended with a … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Durham locavore, Durham small business, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Slow Food, Southern Food, Triangle Locavore, Uncategorized
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, Chocolate, Durham, Homemade, North Carolina, Restaurants
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Upcoming Triangle Food Events 2011
This is you: “Sigh. I never know about the cool upcoming food events in the Triangle. I wish someone I trusted would sift through all the lame stuff and tell me about the neatest food events happening in Orange, Chatham, … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Daily Specials, Durham locavore, Durham small business, Events, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Triangle Locavore
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, Beer, booze events, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Chocolate, cocktails, Durham, Homemade, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork, Restaurants
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Uuuuumami, that’s good!
This week my favorite houseguest and BFF since 1985 visited me in Chapel Hill for a few days. While scrutinizing the labels of fancy Italian jarred pizza sauce at A Southern Season, we came across Taste No. 5 Umami Paste. We … Continue reading →
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Durham locavore, Durham small business, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina food, North Carolina small business, Recipes, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Uncategorized
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Tagged baked goods, Bargains, Brooklyn, Carrboro, cheese, cocktails, Durham, Homemade, New York City, North Carolina, Pork, Restaurants
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Joel Salatin at UNC tonight!
Taking a break from happy hour this evening? Check out Joel Salatin from PolyFace Farm for FREE tonight at 5:00pm on the UNC campus in bloomy Chapel Hill. More details in the Upcoming NC Food Events page of Vic Pop.
Posted in Chapel Hill-Carrboro cool stuff, Crazy food items in the Marketplace, Daily Specials, Durham locavore, Events, Food and Booze, Locavore, North Carolina food, Slow Food, Southern Food, Travel, Triangle Locavore, Uncategorized
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Tagged Bargains, booze events, Carrboro, celebrity, Chapel Hill, cheese, Durham, Homemade, North Carolina, Piedmont Farms, Pork, Restaurants
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