December 19, 2008

Whole Hog

As told to PIPER FOGG

John Shelton Reed, Allen & Son Barbecue, Chapel Hill, N.C., December 3, 2008. (Photograph by Chris Hildreth)

Audio Slide Show: Allen & Son, in Chapel Hill, N.C., has been serving up vinegar-based barbecue for nearly four decades.

North Carolinians know two kinds of barbecue: In the eastern part of the state, sour notes of vinegar spike the sauce. In the western Piedmont,

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