Pig Island 2015
Happy 4th birthday to Veritasty! We are eternally grateful to Jimmy Carbone and the folks at Food Karma not only for inviting us to our first food event four years ago, but also for throwing this wonderful celebration of pig every year! The weather held up, the lines were not too long, and there was delicious food to be had at Pig Island. I have found some years that there are trendy pork preparations (one year, I recall there being a lot of pork tacos, another had a lot of pulled pork sliders) and this year was all about crunch - and by that, I mean chicharrones! Many chefs chose to accompany their pig dishes with either a small sprinkling of crunchy pig skin on top; some fried up whole huge chunks for us to break up and eat at our leisure! Alex is immune to the pleasures of chicharrones, but I'm kind of obsessed for some reason.... I think growing up in an Asian household eating these things: (prawn crackers, in case you didn't grow up in an...