May 17, 2012

Artisanal Baking

If you are not near Warrenton, you can order Red Truck baked goods online or find them at more than 15 stores and wineries throughout the region. A list is at the Red Truck website.

It started as a little friendly bake-off competition between Brian Noyes, then a publication director living in California, and his uncle in Florida. But it stirred up a passion for baking that would lead Noyes to pursue formal training and a second career in fine pastries and baked goods. This is how it worked: Noyes [...]

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Keeping Virginia’s Moonshine Tradition Alive

Once made under the cover of night, moonshine is now made proudly and legally in Culpeper.

Back when moonshine was illegal, Chuck Miller was just a glimmer in his grandfather’s eye. His grandpa ran through roadblocks to get his moonshine into the D.C. area, and his grandma manned the rocking chair that hid the secret door to the liquor storage room during raids, but neither had any idea that one of [...]

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