This is my genesis. Before I ever wrote a single sentence about food for any Pulitzer Prize-winning publication, it all started here—a sliver of land sandwiched between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean: Wilmington, North Carolina. Before any Shrimp Egg Foo Young in New York City’s Chinatown or Haitian spaghetti in Chattanooga, Tennessee or feijoada Myrtle beach, South Carolina or jollof rice in Charlotte, North Carolina. The origins of my appetite started in Wilmi