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Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives
For the next two years, the Carolina community will come together around a common table with food as the University’s new academic theme — exploring a plateful of topics, including … Read more
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Food, Glorious Food
We asked American studies professor Marcie Ferris about everything from using food as a lens to examine history to stereotypes about Southern food to her own go-to comfort meal.
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Mapping a Culinary Mashup: Laos and a Local Community
Katy Clune (M.A. American studies/folklore) documented an example of global foodways in the rural American South through her project on Lao cuisine in Morganton, N.C.
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‘A Good Butcher’: Vittles Films Digs Deep into Food and Southern Culture
Graduate student Victoria Bouloubasis and her partners at Vittles Films have captured the bilingual cacophony of Cliff’s Meat Market in a 15-minute documentary produced for the Southern Foodways Alliance.
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Gravy
English professor Michael McFee shares the poem “Gravy” from his book “That Was Oasis,” with an illustration by colleague Daniel Wallace.
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Quick bites on research and work by UNC students
UNC students research the market for pecan milk, safety in N.C. food pantries, fast food chains in Asia and the availability of fair, local and organic food on campus.
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Passion for Pimento Cheese
Our region produces and consumes the most pimento cheese in the world. But the spread isn’t Southern by birth — it is likely a product of Spain, where the red … Read more
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Crazy about Collards
The Lumbee-centric collard sandwich is on a roll, having been featured in magazines from Our State to Garden & Gun. We recently chatted with folklorist Jefferson Currie II about this … Read more
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‘Food is a Story about Class, Race and Gender’
Elizabeth Engelhardt started writing about food by beginning with leftovers. Not the remains of a meal; the remains of her research.
Fall 2015 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2015, Features, Issues
Supermarkets and Locavores: Allies or Adversaries?
Large chain supermarkets may seem the antithesis of the local food movement, but UNC researchers have found that supermarkets can play a key role in building strong, sustainable local food … Read more
Fall 2015 Faculty Up Close, Fall 2015, Features, Issues