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Hot Chefs Cool Beats – April 25, 2019

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Mark your calendar and secure your ticket; Hot Chefs Cool Beats, proudly sponsored by Alberta Pork, on Thursday, April 25, 2019, is sure to be one of the best culinary events to experience in Edmonton this year.

HOT CHEFS COOL BEATS – THURSDAY APRIL 25, 2019

This year’s event will see an incredible crew of Edmonton chefs take over four levels of the Mosaic Centre, allowing guests to get up close and personal at interactive food and beverage stations. With Alberta Pork as the title sponsor, you can expect to sample some of Edmonton’s best made charcuterie. Get your groove on with an evening full of DJ-spun beats, feel like a chef at the build your own pizza forno station, and be entertained by live ice carving stations, break dancers, and street performers.

HIGH SCHOOL CULINARY CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP

Tickets are $175, with all funds from the event supporting the Canadian Culinary Fund, an Edmonton non-profit which hosts an annual cooking competition called the High School Culinary Challenge (HSCC).

 

Chef Peter Keith and chef Paul Shufelt

All students who participate in the HSCC have the opportunity to apply for a full scholarship to the three-year Cook Journeyman Apprenticeship program at NAIT. The scholarship/mentorship program is designed to recognize the accomplishments of Edmonton-area high school students who have participated in the High School Culinary Challenge and to encourage these students to register in the Cook Apprenticeship Program at NAIT.

The event and the cause is near and dear to the heart of Meuwly’s chef Peter Keith.

“As one of the first scholarship recipients from the Canadian Culinary Fund, I can speak to the incredible opportunity it provides high school students looking towards a culinary career,” explains chef Keith. “The program is doing great things for our food scene in Edmonton and is helping put us on the map as a top culinary destination in North America.”

After a few year hiatus, the event is back, and moving to the Mosiac centre, which is home to chef Paul Shufelt’s Workshop Eatery. Chef Simon Smotkowicz, Culinary Federation National President, first asked chef Shufelt to get involved with HSCC about seven years ago. Since then his participation has evolved from taking on and mentoring a student in his kitchen, to joining the committee, to now chairing the committee.

Over his time with the group chef Shufelt has come to see the incredible benefits of HSCC to Edmonton’s food community.

“We are creating connections with our city’s next generaion of great chefs, nurturing their development and watching them become a large part of our city’s recognition as a premier food destination,” explains chef Shufelt. “Being a part of this event allows to not only give back to our community, but also grow this program into something more.”

FEATURING CHEFS AND CULINARY PARTNERS FROM CASA 12 DOCE, CAFE LINNEA,
EDMONTON CONVENTION CENTRE, DRIFT FOOD TRUCK, EFFIN SEAFOOD, ERNEST’S,
HARDWARE GRILL, KANTO 98 ST., MEUWLY’S, XIX NINETEEN, NORTHERN CHICKEN,
UNDER THE HIGH WHEEL, WOODWORK, WORKSHOP EATERY, ZINC

Hot Chefs Cool Beats is sure to be a sell out event. Tickets are limited.

Calgary & Edmonton Restaurants Celebrating June is Pork Month

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June is Pork Month at FARM
Do you have a passion for Alberta Pork? Well dig the pig and help us celebrate June is Pork Mont in Alberta. All throughout the month of June, chefs in Calgary and Edmonton are featuring a new or signature Alberta Pork dish on their menu. And they’ll be giving out a recipe card of their feature dish for patrons to take home.

In Calgary, visit Alloy, Bonterra Trattoria, Chef’s Table, FARM, Made Foods, Oak Tree Tavern, The Park Kitchen & Bar, Pig and Duke, Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse, PRLR Lounge, Scopa, Starbelly, Sunterra Market, The Beltliner, The Block, and Yellow Door Bistro.

In Edmonton, visit the Alberta Hotel Bar & Kitchen, Ampersand 27, The Common, The Harvest Room at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Hardware Grill, The Marc, Nineteen, Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse, Red Ox Inn, Rostizado, The Royal Glenora Club, Sabor, Sunterra Market, TZiN, and The Workshop Eatery.

Thank you to all of the participating chefs in Edmonton and Calgary for sharing your passion for pork and helping to make June the tastiest month of the year.

June is Pork Month at restaurants across Edmonton

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The Common's BBQ Pork Lettuce Wraps

June is Pork Month is back at for a second year in Edmonton!

Chefs at the Alberta Hotel Bar & Kitchen, Ampersand 27, The Common, The Harvest Room at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Hardware Grill, The Marc, Nineteen, Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse, Red Ox Inn, Rostizado, The Royal Glenora Club, Sabor, Sunterra, TZiN, and The Workshop Eatery all have a passion for Alberta pork – each are featuring a new or signature Alberta Pork dish on their menu all month long.

Not only can you enjoy copious amounts of pork at each of these restaurants – each chef has shared their recipe and will be giving out a recipe card for diners to take home.

But if you want to try the real thing, like Chef Sean O’Connors pork belly with spring pea and buttermilk feature at the Red Ox Inn or Chef Jesse Morrison’s BBQ pork lettuce wraps with watermelon, yogurt, chilies & mint at The Common, stop by each of the participating restaurants during the month of June. Indulge in some #tasteabpork

Chef Sean O'Connor

 

10th day of Christmas: 10 pork dishes at 10 YEG restaurants

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100 Bar & Kitchen Charcuterie Plate

Do you have the pork munchies, but just don’t feel like cooking? Check out this list (alphabetical) of some Edmonton restaurants I enjoy that are serving up some fabulous pork dishes.

  1. 100 Bar and Kitchen – Charcuterie plate
    Chef Andrew Cowan has some serious passion for pork. The charcuterie board he serves up features a selection of in-house cured such as pork lomo (dry cured pork loin), pork terrine, andouille sausage, chorizo, capicollo, salami, and pork rillette using Irving Farm Fresh Berkshire pork. Top it off with brushed focaccia and house made preserves – this plate will give you some serious meat sweats.
  2. Cafe Amore – Maple Sausage Crostini
    I stick to the gluten free pasta dinners when I dine at Café Amore, but my roommate Marc says the homemade maple sausage crostini at Café Amore is killer.
  3. The Common – Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps
    I was a huge fan of Chef Jesse Morrison-Gauthier’s sticky ribs with kale from his summer menu, and while I am sad it is no longer listed on the menu, he can satisfy your pork cravings with a serving of pork belly lettuce wraps.
  4. Culina Millcreek – Pork ‘Con Leche’
    I love when pork is so tender you don’t need a knife at dinner. ChefSteven Furgiuele has created a melt in your mouth pork dish cooked low and slow in milk & spices that is sure to warm your belly during December.
  5. The Next Act Pub – The Pulled Pork Sandwich
    I went to the Next Act Pub with my friend Brian a few weeks back and he hammered through the pulled pork sandwich to rave reviews (while this gluten free girl hammered through the pulled pork poutine).
  6. XIX – Nineteen – Irving Farm Kakuni
    I love when I can walk from home to a restaurant, but Chef Andrew Fung certainly gives me a reason to drive to the south to visit Nineteen. I love his Irving Farms sake soy glazed pork belly served with a 63 degree egg, daikon, pickle beet and ponzu butter sauce appetizer.
  7. RGE RD – Nature’s Green Acres Pig Roast
    Chef Blair Lebsack serves up a locally sourced dish packed with pork featuring a pork loin, pork belly, pork confit amuse-bouche and bacon & squash cassoulet.
  8. Tres Carnales Taqueria – Chorizo Quesadillas
    Craving Mexican? Tres Carnales has a menu with delicious things like carnitas – Alberta pork shoulder fried in its own fat! Hard to choose between tacos, quesadillas and the torta, but my roommate Marc says his go-to-dish is the chorizo quesadillas.
  9. Smokehouse BBQ – Smokehouse Bacon Bomb
    Bringing a bit of the south to the north with pork that is slow smoked over Okanagan wood for over 12 hours. It is hard to come here and not have pulled pork, but their signature Smokehouse Bacon Bomb is a house specialty for a reason (again this is roommate approved). A loaf of Italian spiced sausage meat wrapped in bacon then smoked with happiness.
  10. Zinc Restaurant – Frenched 10 oz loin chop
    In the Art Gallery of Alberta’s restaurant (and what I think is one of the most beautiful rooms to eat at in Edmonton) Chef David Omar is serving up satisfying loin chop with smoked apple, crimini mushroom bread pudding, cabbage slaw, and molasses jus.