Duke has a strong reputation for high quality dining services, which includes a commitment to sustainability. Many campus eateries strive to incorporate local and organic ingredients and all campus eateries offer vegetarian options.

Read more about Duke’s green dining efforts: http://sustainability.duke.edu/campus_initiatives/dining/index.html.

Recent Posts

• Will You Be At the Airport When Your Ship Comes In? They say that timing is everything and when it comes to eating, timing does matter. If we try to mimic our eating patterns  based on our energy needs and blood sugar levels, it stands to reason that we should eat the bulk of our calories, at least carbohydrates, in the morning and mid-day to support…
• Who Would Want A Slow Diet? The attractiveness of fad diets is that they promise a quick fix.  One of the latest diets to gain popularity, The Fast Diet, is no exception.  The title actually refers to fasting instead of the speed of results.  The premise of the diet created by Dr. Michael Mosely and Mimi Spencer is to fast for…
• How To Feed Your Gut Bugs If you have seen any of the new yogurt commercials you are all probably familiar with the term probiotics, which are live cultures of bacteria that mimic the gut friendly bacteria that live in your intestinal tract. It may sound kind of gross that you have bacteria living in your intestines but they serve a…
• How Do You LikeYour Coffee Beans – Green Please Usually when you talk about coffee, it’s about the aroma, the taste, the roast of the beans, and where the beans are from.  The word “green”, other than how it’s grown, doesn’t usually enter into the conversation.  Well, if you’ve checked the news lately, “green coffee beans” are all the rage, but not so much…
• What’d You Say About Your Mother? You know, your kombucha starter, which is lovingly referred to as a ‘mother’-a gelatinous mass of bacteria and yeast that’s necessary to make this fizzy, fermented tea.  You may have seen kombucha at Whole Foods or even your yoga studio as it’s one of the latest “health food” crazes.  Some feel as though this probiotic…