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Portage’s new Next Chapter Cafe has a twist. It’s BYOF – bring your own food.

The café run by Taylor Cook serves a variety of nonalcoholic drinks to go along with whatever you might bring to munch on.

Cook, a former bartender, calls herself a soberista, a term coined by her fiancé, Portage Recovery Association Executive Director Jake Monhaut.

“I kind of just gave her the keys,” Monhaut said, and was surprised by what she did with the place.

Monhaut originally was thinking of a concession stand in the Portage Recovery Association’s lounge. A pool table, a TV showing sports on the wall, a few chairs, a small place to sell nonalcoholic drinks to the public, much like at the nonprofit’s previous location on McCasland Avenue.

Instead, Cook tran

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