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Big Host - Pig Roast
Braddock Organick!
What: The big host of course is big Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock. John is inviting SFP & friends to his house. Tables under the trees. Spits turning in the brick alley. Slow Food and Grow Pittsburgh will set the table.
When: Sunday, August 10, 2008
Time: 4-8 p.m.
Where: Mayor Fetterman's house, Library Street, Braddock
Price: $45 members, $50 nonmembers. Cash bar.
THE MENU:
Spitmeister Randy Hawkey's organic pig, lamb, chicken.
Grilled sausage, peppers, leeks, red and yellow onions.
Mediterra garlic toast.
Herb-roasted squash with cheese.
Chimichurri sauce to splash on everything.
Red, ripe, sliced tomatoes vinaigrette, fresh herbs.
Gramma's pickled cukes.
Chef Michael Rago's tangy coleslaw.
Sl-o-o-w caramelized baked beans.
East End Brewery sustainably produced beer.
Pastry chef Donna Wolfe's organic ice cream sandwiches made with the raw cream of local Jersey cows. Try three flavors…orange ice cream/pecan cookies; coffee ice cream/chocolate mocha cookies, banana ice cream/oatmeal crispy cookies.
You don't know John Fetterman YET?
Check him out.
Braddock Organick proceeds will help send SFP delegates to Slow Food's Terra Madre, global conference of sustainable food producers and their advocates in Turin, Italy, this October. Delegates are Blackberry Meadows Farm partners Greg Boulos and his wife, Jen Montgomery. Greg is the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's Southwest Director; Jen manages Blackberry Meadows organic farm. Meet them at the party.
Timetable:
4 pm
See how the garden grows. Grow Pittsburgh offers a complimentary glass of organic wine and a tomato mozzarella appetizer at their Braddock Farms. Even the music is organic. Hear a sweet live serenade by Boca Chica, farmer Susanna Meyer's vocal/instrumental group.
(You may drive to the garden first, then back to John's house on Library Street. OR park at the lot behind John's house and walk or hitch a ride in the Mayor's french-fry fueled truck the 3 blocks to and fro.)
Back at Library Street:
-- peek into the country's oldest (1899) Carnegie Library directly across from John's house. Director Vicki Vargo is our guide.
--have a personalized tour of Mayor John's arty digs with its third-floor constructed of Costco shipping containers.
--view the mayor's gallery of world-class by the street artist Swoon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_(artist)
While we set out dinner, get yourself a Fat Gary Nutbrown ale at the Elk's Club cash bar next door and have an ear of roasted-in-the-husk, butter-dipped corn.
6-8 pm
Dig into spit-roasted pig, lamb, chicken, just-picked Braddock Farms veggies, and lots of fixins. On your table find hand-thrown pottery bowls and art to buy from the Braddock Carnegie Library's Creative Arts Program.
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