Hear in the Yukon, where we have a lot of bears, black and griz, we do as follow, alway have a cooking area that is deferent then the sleeping area, that is also diferent than where you keep your food.
Imagine a large triangle 300' per side, that each "corner", serve a different purpose, one for food, one for tenting and one for cooking. best to have the cooking and food ones down wind. When we talk food, we are talking of every thing that smell, ie tooth past, candys, deodorent etc...
I like to cary bear sprey( up here we are not alowed hand guns...) or a 12 gauge just for around camp.
Hanging the food stuff is great idea, but I never bother, and in 14 years up here never had a problem!!
Good luck!