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Many Greek emigrants have come to North Carolina seeking a better life. Forsyth County has a thriving Greek-American population, and with this, many Greek Christmas traditions are passed on to the next generation.
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At Old Havana Sandwich Shop, Copa Matos and his wife Elizabeth Turnbull have dug up both local ingredients and a rich culinary history, pressing them into sandwiches and showcasing them in their recent dinner series “Lost Dishes of Cuba”. The small farm-to-table restaurant has been operating for six years in Durham.
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Wildin Acosta is well-known among the Latino and undocumented immigrant community in Durham. Acosta’s case is among at least six in North Carolina involving high-school-age immigrants who could qualify as refugees but instead were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last spring. All have been released, and they are now seeking asylum and advocating for immigrants.
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The growing population of Latinos and immigrants in North Carolina is evident in the food industry. However, immigrant cooks, such as Luis Ortega, are rarely acknowledged for their intelligence, creativity, and culinary talents. Ortega came to North Carolina for a better life, but returned to Mexico because he felt invisible as an immigrant cook and feared deportation.
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June 23 was the sixtieth anniversary of the 1957 Royal Ice Cream sit-in, where seven African Americans demanded to be served inside the segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor in north Durham and were arrested for it. The demonstration is often overlooked in civil rights history because sit-ins were not rampant at that time.
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Rang Rajaram started DISHOOM in Durham four years ago, bringing Bollywood-inspired music and Indian culture to the local dance-party scene. Parties happen about four times per year, offering bhangra dance lessons, psychedelic visuals, and re-mixed music to a crowd of over four-hundred people.
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Toriano and Serena Fredericks run the Boricua Soul food truck in Durham. Their food speaks to their mixed heritage of Puerto Rico and North Carolina. In response to skeptical questions on the authenticity of their food, the couple says that mixture is what America is.
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Oscar Diaz of Jose and Sons, the premier Mexican-Southern restaurant in downtown Raleigh, regularly dines at El Taco Market. While there is a trend for authentic tacos, palates are changing as diverse cultures in North Carolina merge. As a Southern-born Mexican-American in Raleigh, Diaz combines ingredients to produce a menu featuring meals rooted in cultures on both sides of the border.
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North Carolina is home to more hogs than people, and pork is one of the state's top agricultural exports. Pastured pork is a form of resistance against an industrial behemoth, one rife with poor practices and environmental disasters. To combat this, a small but growing number of people in the Triangle area are raising hogs with consideration for the animals' welfare as well as their flavor.
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In October, Reframing Food will be on exhibit at the Carrack Modern Art in Durham. The exhibit features photography by members of the Food Youth Initiative, a network of four groups across North Carolina working toward food justice in their communities. Their work intimately portrays a powerful personal perspective uncommon in the mainstream food world.
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Evelyn Martinez moved to North Carolina nine years ago as a teenage boy, leaving her parents behind in rural Oaxaca, Mexico, after attempting suicide. She and other transgender Latinos are part of the Durham non-profit El Centro Hispano to help bring light to a new Southern community that has been hidden from view.
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The Ceja Bautista family is distributing bowls of pozole stew at a mobile home park in Durham to celebrate Saint Francis of Assisi. The stew is rooted in spiritual traditions and Mexican celebrations that express gratitude with generosity.
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27467
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Women in North Carolina are entering the local meat business at a rate well above the national average. This year Orange County hosted the third Women Working in the Meat Business Conference. Attendees learned about farming, raising livestock, butchering meat, and new entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Famed Nigerian chef Tunde Wey visited Durham last week as part of his Blackness in America pop-up dinner series, an event which combines dinner with discussions of race. Wey’s timely visit sparked meaningful conversation within the Durham local food movement.
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Samir Saleh fled civil war in Lebanon and established himself as a leader in Raleigh’s Arab-American community. Saleh opened the restaurant Neomonde, where he planted a pomegranate tree brought from Lebanon. The pomegranate is venerated as a jewel of prosperity in various cultures of the Middle East and Mediterranean.
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