10th
Go to The Big Brooklyn Pig (212lb.) Roast
Please. My good friend Kelly is throwing her talents to this event tonight at The Yard. Go support her and eat some hog. (its her bday, too) –Samalina “Jowl”ey
Info:
Although we spend most of our time at Brooklyn Based HQ crafting emails you’ll actually read, occasionally we like to produce an event for your pleasure, and ours.
So we’d like to invite all of you to the first annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown on Friday, October 10, from 6 to 10 pm, at the best canal-front venue in the city, The Yard. To throw it, we’ve joined forces with some of our favorite movers and shakers: Kelly Geary of Sweet Deliverance, Matt Tyson and Mike Grimes of Ear Farm, Blue Marble Ice Cream, and Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in New York, and of course, butcherTom Mylan of Marlow and Son s, Diner and Bonita, who learned his craft upstate at Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston. (Which you may have read about yesterday in the Times»)
It made perfect sense, then, to ask Joshua Applestone, third generation butcher and Fleisher’s co-owner (along with his wife Jessica Applestone) to supply the evening’s main attraction: a 200-pound heritage hog, roasted over a pit and served, with Kelly’s help, alongside a variety of salsas, corn two ways, fresh greens, and beans and rice. Cathy has agreed to lend a hand with the apple crisp and Blue Marble is whipping up a batch of cinnamon ice cream just for the occasion. We’ll have Sixpoint on tap (Hop Obama and Righteous Ale, of course) and from 6 to 7 pm, they’ll be just $1.
Afterward, Applestone will tell us why the heritage breed pig we’re eating is so delicious, and hear from the organization this whole shindig benefits. Kelly has arranged to donate $2 of each ticket to the New Farmer Development Project, a Greenmarket program that gives immigrants who want to farm the resources to start their own agricultural endeavors. She’s also the mastermind behind the Gowanus Harvest Festival, a daytime music and food melee at The Yard on Saturday, so you can see why we’re so thrilled to work with such a dynamo.
Along with all the deliciousness and do-goodedness, we’ll have an amazing lineup of bands to turn up your heels to. On stage starting at 6:15 we’ll hear three locals — Bel Air, Motel Motel (who’ll both be playing the CMJ fest), and The Jones Street Boys (who you may remember from “12 Ophelias” in McCarren Park) — playing a harvesty mix of Americana and rootsy folk. All are curated by Ear Farm, which celebrates its third year Oct. 10. (Funny how things come together.)
All in all it should be great food, great music and lots of bitchin’ Brooklynites — like Brooklyn Based brought to life. So snatch a ticket now, cause they’re going fast!
What you need to know:
Friday, October 10 at The Yard, 388-400 Carroll St.
Doors open at 6, $1 Sixpoints until 7
Tickets are $32 advance, available here» and $40 at the door
