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Several local food trucks will gather today outside City Kitch in Wesley Heights for a food truck rally. What to expect: The family- and dog-friendly event will have a live DJ, vendors and local nonprofit Do Greater Charlotte's mobile creative learning lab. • Food trucks that will participate include: Gotrice!?, Mariah's Taco Spot, Boujee Soul Food, Mia's Snow Dessert Bar and Don's Jamaican

While football is the main event, food is the true star of tailgating culture. Tailgating recipes have become integral to the football season experience, creating traditions that bring people together. Some fans are so devoted that they roll in the night before, setting up camp in trailers or motorhomes, just to fire up the grill at dawn and get the feast started. Tailgating food reflects

Shana Manradge wasn’t joking when she told me “giving up isn’t an option.” When we last spoke in January, the Paterson entrepreneur’s dream of helping people in her community — a known food desert — access fresh, healthy and affordable food, seemed to elude her. City health officials, citing licensing issues, had shut down the grocery shop she operated for a year and a half out of her garage.