To celebrate its fourth anniversary, Taste Carolina food tour company is branching out from offering tours of the Triangle's foodie hot spots.

Owner Leslie Stracks-Mullem has organized a series of events highlighting how food artisans and chefs partner with local farmers.

The company hopes people will buy tickets to all multiple events. To attend all six, it costs $249. Five events cost $215. Four costs $180 and three costs $138. Remaining tickets for each event will go on sale one week prior to the event. Tickets can be purchased online at tastecarolina.com.

Here is the schedule:

• 6 p.m. April 18, a tour of Chapel Hill Creamery's farm followed by a cheese dinner at Acme Food & Beverage Co. in Carrboro.
• 6:15 p.m. April 23, a cooking demonstration and dinner featuring The Farmer's Daughter and Farmhand Foods with Piedmont Wine Imports at Eastern Carolina Organics.

Now that I'm back at work after my maternity leave, I'm trying to catch up on the Triangle dining scene. In between interviews this week in Durham, I got to check out two spots that have opened in recent months: DaisyCakes, (photos above by Staff photographer Juli Leonard) that longtime member of the food truck scene now has a brick-and-mortar location; and Loaf, an artisan bread bakery that got its start at the Durham Farmers' Market.

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Carrboro's Panzanella is featuring cheese and the cheesemakers from Chapel Hill Creamery from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday.

Cheesemakers Portia McKnight and Flo Hawley will be on hand from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to talk to customers about their recent trip to the world's largest cheese festival in Bra, Italy. 

Chef Jim Nixon will feature the pair's cheeses in a number of special dishes that evening. 

To make a reservation, call 929-6626. 

Panzanella is the restaurant associated with Weaver Street Market, a cooperative grocery.