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Pittsboro Is Smaller Than Triangle Cities, Yet Its Handful of Trucks Thrive Without Rodeo Crowds

It’s the middle of a sweltering afternoon, and Tacos Michoacan is parked in its usual spot just north of Pittsboro’s humble downtown. Aromatic Roasters, the coffee truck with which Tacos Michoacan shares this unassuming lot, is closed for the day, and the communications company at the same address is as outwardly quiet as ever. Yet […]

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The Need for Mead

Old habits die hard, and mead is one of the oldest. There’s no clear consensus on where this most ancient of fermented beverages originated. The Chinese and Egyptians both drank it thousands of years ago. Becky Starr of Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro guesses that the first fermentation was probably an accident. Honey is 80 percent […]

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Cider House Rules

Before the craft beer movement, there was an attitude that “beer is beer,” a tautology expressing the watery similarity of the mass-produced domestic brews dominating the market. Craft brewing has effectively pulled beer from this gutter, as evidenced by the explosion of its industry. Hard cider still suffers, though: “Cider is cider,” the thought goes. […]

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