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Community Table Dinner with Ryan Adams & Cook Pigs Ranch
Explore the tangible connection between sustenance and sustainability at a unique farm-to-table dining experience.
Through culinary storytelling, Community Table with Chef Ryan Adams of Three Seventy Common and Cook Pigs Ranch explores the numerous benefits of raising livestock locally and sustainably. Chef Adams has composed a menu that showcases the robust flavors of Cook Pigs Ranch’s pasture-raised heritage pigs. Community Table is a unique experience that’s part farm-to-table dinner and part education, where you will enjoy delicious local food and meet the rancher/farmer and chef who are responsible for the making of your meal.
JOIN US at the sustainable table for a one-of-kind dining & educational experience and support a positive future!
Community Table with Ryan Adams and Cook Pigs Ranch Menu:
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Wood Roasted Tahitian Squash Salad
dandelion/cook pigs’ chicharron/apple-pork vinaigrette
blue cheese/walnut
Pine Cured Cook Pigs’ Terrine
mustard seed/persimmon/watercress/bread
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Cider Braised Pork Belly
wheatgrass/meyer lemon/carrot
Mushroom Stuffed Pork Loin
parsnip/potato/escarole/persimmon
Pear Galette
lemon verbena/crème fraiche/honey/squash seed
*Menu is subject to change at chef’s discretion and depending on seasonal availability.
About Community Table: Community Table is an on-going conversation about what a truly sustainable food system looks like. Our aim is to create a new consciousness about how food was grown, raised, caught, and how these decisions affect the health of our communities and our environment.
The Community Table dinner series will follow the cycle of seasons, with two dinners per season, each with a different chef and a different theme. The connecting thread across all the dinners is a thoughtful exploration of important issues affecting our food today, such as drought, biodiversity, livestock, soil, ocean health, and food mileage. Our aim is to create a new consciousness about how food was grown, raised, caught, and how these decisions affect the health of our communities and our environment.
A portion of your ticket to Community Table supports the creation of a new sustainable cookbook that features recipes from the dinner and complete background and stories about the ingredients. Community Table chefs and farmers will share tips to help us bring the philosophy of farm-to-table into our everyday.
About Chef Ryan Adams:
Ryan Adams is the chef/owner of Three Seventy Common Kitchen + Drink, a Laguna Beach community hub known for its really good food, fun and camaraderie. Formerly the executive chef of Sorrento Grille, Adams purchased the venue in 2011 and revamped it to offer a new urban look and his inspired take on farm-to-table fare. He is a longtime supporter of sustainable cuisine and works closely with local farmers and purveyors to create his ever-changing contemporary American menu. A Laguna Niguel native, he is a graduate of California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and honed his skills at various restaurants there, including Stars, One Market and Vertigo. He moved to Maui, Hawaii, working as chef de cuisine at Lahaina Grille; then had cooking stints in Chicago and New York before returning to Orange County to open Citrus City Grille in Old Towne Orange. He was also the opening chef and sous chef for French 75 in Laguna Beach, and was the corporate chef for David Wilhelm’s Culinary Adventures, where he ran and designed all the restaurant kitchens.
About Cook Pigs Ranch:
Cook Pigs Ranch is a family-owned business based in Julian. The Ranch is focused entirely on raising heritage pigs in a humane and sustainable environment. Cook Pigs Ranch heritage pigs feed on natural local product (acorns, grass, avocados and apples in season), along with specially formulated grain and hydroponically-grown fodder products produced on the Ranch. No hormones or non-natural supplements are used whatsoever to speed-up the growth process. The pigs are allowed to grow at their own rate in the beautiful and peaceful environment which the Cook Pigs Ranch provides.
Sunday: 3:30pm-5:30pm
Tickets: $115 MEMBERS, $125 NON-MEMBERS
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