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Goodbye Gourmet magazine

October 8th, 2009

Farewell, Gourmet. After nearly 70 years, Conde Nast will stop publishing the magazine.
The Biscuit thought it was important to mark the event because of how Gourmet affected this blog’s perception of eating in Chapel Hill.
Four years ago, The Biscuit came down to Chapel Hill from Boston expecting to find nothing more for food than […]

If you want to consume 2400 calories, perhaps puke, and help the N.C. Children’s Hospital in one bite (OK, maybe a lot of bites), come out for the Krispy Kreme Challenge in Raleigh Saturday morning.
Apparently registration just filled (more than are 5,000 people doing it), but it should be a fun, maybe acrid and […]

The Biscuit is back

January 16th, 2009

Well, it’s been a while hasn’t it? But The Biscuit has good news: a column in The Daily Tar Heel!
This semester, The Biscuit will be writing about food in Chapel Hill for UNC’s campus paper. The blog and articles will be integrated, so the site will supplement the columns with multimedia. That means there should […]

It’s that time of the year

December 14th, 2008

School is out for about a month, and The Biscuit is up in Boston. Although there will be lots of food, good food, in the frigid North, The Biscuit will probably relax until January.
Don’t fret, though, because there are already some stories in the works: Hanging out at Walt’s Grill; Which college has the […]

What SPAM means for America

November 17th, 2008

So just a scattered, medium-winded post, some food for thought that starts with canned meat and ends with caloric burritos.
Apparently SPAM (Spiced Ham or Shoulder of Pork and Ham - the namesake is a big debate) is an economic indicator. Sales of the whateveritis meat product go up during hard economic times, bouts like these, […]

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