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A New Recipe for Charlotte

As Charlotte works to rebrand itself as a destination for food and drink, it has to choose which stories to tell.

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Pop-Up Identity: Dinner Series Cultivate Belonging

Chefs stage pop-up dinners to tell stories, many of them focused on identity.

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A Table for All? The Pay-What-You-Can Phenomenon

At the FARM Café in Boone, North Carolina, diners can pay $10 for meal—or they can pay nothing. The restaurant, one of dozens of its kind, follows a pay-what-you-can model.

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Bottled Myth: Two Parts Nostalgia, One Part Moonshine

Legal moonshine production—funny as that sounds—has exploded in the South.

Gravy Podcast

What Is Latino Enough?

Writer and editor Paul Reyes, the US-born son of Colombian and Cuban parents, examines his identity through language,…

Gravy Podcast

Dispatch from Duplin County

By the end of the twentieth century, hog farming had replaced tobacco as the backbone of eastern North Carolina's…

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The Wise Family at Work: A Sound Portrait

This episode of Gravy is a sound portrait of an African American farm couple in North Carolina, Eddie and Dorothy Wise.…

Gravy Podcast

Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape

For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: tobacco supplied these families with a cultural backbone, a way of ordering their year—and their meals. So: what’s happening to that culture as the tobacco industry has changed?

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Transplanted Traditions: From Southeast Asia to North Carolina

In Chapel Hill, there’s a farm that’s much more than just a spot to grow food: it’s a gathering place for refugees,…

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A New Recipe for Charlotte

Pop-Up Identity: Dinner Series Cultivate Belonging

A Table for All? The Pay-What-You-Can Phenomenon

Bottled Myth: Two Parts Nostalgia, One Part Moonshine

What Is Latino Enough?

Dispatch from Duplin County

The Wise Family at Work: A Sound Portrait

Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape

Transplanted Traditions: From Southeast Asia to North Carolina

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A New Recipe for Charlotte

Pop-Up Identity: Dinner Series Cultivate Belonging

A Table for All? The Pay-What-You-Can Phenomenon

Bottled Myth: Two Parts Nostalgia, One Part Moonshine

What Is Latino Enough?

Dispatch from Duplin County

The Wise Family at Work: A Sound Portrait

Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape

Transplanted Traditions: From Southeast Asia to North Carolina

Let’s Stay in Touch

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