Slow Food Chicago Pig Roast -- June 10 2-5 pm

Slow Food Chicago is holding its 4th Annual Pig Roast at Goose Island Beer Company on June 10, 2012, 1800 West Fulton Street. The event will be from 2-5 pm.

Chefs from X-marx, Three Aces, Uncommon Ground, Sable Kitchen & Bar, Vera, and Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub will prepare dishes using Slagel hogs. A vegetarian dish will be provided by Green Zebra and dessert by La Boulangerie. Beverages will be provided by Goose Island, Templeton Rye and Intelligentsia. Farmer LouisJohn Slagel will be in attendance.

Tickets are $60 per person, and $80 for a Terra Madre Ticket, which includes a donation to send a delegate to Terra Madre in Italy in October. Ticket price includes a commemorative glass as well as all of the food and beverages that you can consume responsibly.

For tickets and details, click here.

See you there!

This sounds like a great event. I'm going to do my best to be there.

stevez wrote:This sounds like a great event. I'm going to do my best to be there.

Thanks, Steve! Hopefully, we'll see you and the Chow Poodle there.

Just to give a bump... and let people know that the menu is (mostly) finalized. All meat dishes feature Slagel pigs. Tickets will be on sale online until tomorrow, and after that, subject to availability at the door [link to tickets in is the original post]:

Menu:

Adrienne Lo & Abe Conlon/X-marx -- Portuguese Linguiça

Matt Troost/Three Aces -- Bahn Mi Paisano with bbq pork belly, grilled pork, pork liver pate, mortadella, green coriander aioli, pickled vegetables, fresno chiles, and cilantro flowers

Matthew Holmes/Uncommon Ground Devon -- Porchetta with ramp kimchee

Heather Terhune/Sable Kitchen & Bar -- Cherrywood Smoked Whole Hog Pulled Pork, Bacon Cornbread, Pickled Vegetables, Maple-Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

Mark Mendez/Vera -- Pozole, Choripan sandwich with chimichurri and pickled chiles

Andrew Hroza/Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub -- Muffaletta with house cured meats

Jon Dubois/Green Zebra (vegetarian) -- Mushroom Taco with smoked radish, cabbage, cilantro, and Beaver Dam pepper salsa verde (The Heirloom Pickle Beaver Dam pepper provided by Scrumptious Pantry is on Slow Food's Ark of Taste, a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction.)

Amy Kelsch/La Boulangerie (dessert) -- Raspberry Almond Financiers with seasonal raspberries

Templeton Rye will make two cocktails, Cherry Smashes and Blind Judges. Goose Island will provide beer, and iced tea will be provided by Intelligentsia.

FYI -- This event is sold out. If you were planning to buy tickets at the door, there will be a handful of tickets available (like 20), so please arrive at 2 pm. When those tickets are sold out, we're out.

I hope to see some folks there!