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Slow Food Charlotte gather for lessons in cheese making. North Carolina creamery comes down to teach the Charlotte group how it's done.

Alice Waters took time out of her schedule to come visit Charlotte NC where she was greeted by the Farm, Slow Food, Chef community. Her visit culminated in a lecture on the Edible Schoolyard and other initiatives she was behind that was illuminating if not urgently alarming.

A live mouse swimming in marinade. A fast food employee spraying pesticide in the kitchen near freshly prepared food. Health inspectors see everything, now their inspection reports are available on a new website launched by Garrison Enterprises, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C.

Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. It has a 2008 estimated population of approximately 695,995 as of January 1, 2008. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, and is located in the south-central part of the state in the Piedmont region, near the South Carolina border. The city's economy has and is continuing to mature starting in the 1990s and continuing through the 2000s to become dominated by financial services, as well as retail commerce. According to 2006 estimates, Charlotte is the 5th–fastest-growing among large U.S. cities as well as the fastest-growing city on the East Coast and the largest metro area between Atlanta and Washington, D.C.. A resident of Charlotte is referred to as a Charlottean (IPA: /ˌʃarləˈtiːən/).Nicknamed The Queen City, Charlotte (as well as the county containing it) was named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, wife of King George III of the United Kingdom. During the American Revolution the British Commander in the Southern Colonies, General Cornwallis, occupied Charlotte but was driven out soon afterwards by the fierce opposition of the city's residents to British rule. Cornwallis famously wrote that Charlotte was "a hornet's nest of rebellion", leading to another city nickname: The Hornet's Nest.As of 2006, the Charlotte metropolitan area had a population of 1,583,016. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a wider thirteen-county labor market region that has an estimated population (as of 2008) of 2,491,650.