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Alberta Pork sets up House at Taste/CFC

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Taste of Edmonton, Edmonton's favorite food event, hits Sir Winston Churchilll Square this weekend (July 16-25) and Alberta Pork will be along for the yummy ride. We will be sponsoring one of the Sip 'n Savor evenings, Pork 'n' Pinot, on July 22 where  four local chefs (Eric Hansen, David Omar, Steve Buzac and Mike Nguyen) will be serving up a variety of delicious Alberta pork appies to a hungry throng. Sorry but this event is sold out!

From July 22-25, Events Edmonton will also be hosting the Canadian Food Championship at Centennial Plaza, just south of the Stanley Milner Library. There are 6 categories to compete in and Alberta Pork is sponsoring the Bacon category (a no brainer) - that event takes place July 22 from 9:30am to 11am. This is a qualifying event to determine who will become part of Team Canada at the World Food Championship For more info on either event check out tasteofedm.ca or canadianfoodchampionships.ca

June is Pork Month Restaurant Promotion

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small zinc photoGet ready to enjoy new and wonderful Alberta pork recipes at your favorite Calgary and Edmonton restaurants! Throughout the month of June, 28 restaurants will be taking part in our June is Pork Month campaign highlighting a special pork dish. When you order that dish, you will also take home the recipe of that dish to hopefully replicate at home (25 of the 28 restaurants are participating in the recipe portion). Participating restaurants are as follows: In Calgary – Anju, Avec, Black Pig Bistro, CHARCUT, FARM, Hardware Grill, Oak Tree Tavern, Pig and Duke, Raw Bar, Rouge, Shokunin Izakaya, The Block, The Libertine Public House. In Edmonton we have Ampersand 27, Canteen, Harts Table, Hotel Mac, LUX Steakhouse & Bar, North 53, Packrat Louie, Red Ox Inn, RGE RD, Rostizado, Share (Westin), The Marc, TZiN, and Zinc.

Thanks to all the fabulous chefs out there for coming up with such wonderful ways to serve our Alberta Pork! We will have these recipes on our website shortly!