Iowa the Tiger
This Saturday Cochon 555 Des Moines goes off with the usual assortment of top chefs (from Des Moines, Mount Vernon, and Kansas City), 140-lb heritage bred hogs, winemakers (most from Napa, but one local) and butchery demos (from Aaron King, exec chef of gateway Market).
If you are in or around Des Moines and looking to feast on some pork use the discount code “LLS” to get $20 off admission when you buy tickets here, or get GA at the door for $75.
After this round the Cochon makes just four more stops (DC, Seattle, Portland and San Fransisco) before landing in Aspen on June 20 for the Grand Cochon where each regional winner will compete and the ultimate winner will be decided. We’re still putting our money on Blue Hill’s Adam Kaye in Aspen, but Matt Jennings of Farmstead looked sharp in Boston.
And watch the video from the Boston Cochon where Jennings was crowned Prince of Porc below if you want to get psyched (and we, do mean psyched — the clip features the type of generic driving guitar interlude generally reserved for football highlight shows — and at 19 seconds a guy cuts a pig in half.)
