Join me for Chow Chow Festival
CORN: A CROSS-CULTURAL CELEBRATION
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022, 11:30AM-2:00PM
WNC FARMERS MARKET - 570 BREVARD RD, ASHEVILLE, NC
$125 PER PERSON
This is a Seated Brunch, with a cocktail hour followed by a four course meal with paired beverages, featuring 4 chefs and several craft beverage makers.
Menu sneak peek! These talented chefs are cooking up an exciting selection of dishes! Menu options being discussed are: fried corn with lime butter + pistachios, corn macque choux hoecake with succotash, smoked pork, pickled corn relish + smoked corn sauce, corn + cardamom mazamorra with pickled blackberries and peaches, sweet corn diplomat cream with buttermilk and vanilla sweet corn cake inside a white chocolate shell with bourbon caramel sauce and butter ice cream, mini buttermilk tarts with caramelized corn and more to come!
Join us for a bluegrass brunch with Whitewater Bluegrass that dives into the heritage and flavor of a-maize-ing corn! No single ingredient migrates across multiple cultures and time periods more than corn. The humble maize is transformed into hundreds of different cuisines but also makes appearances in the form of hundreds of everyday products and consumables, from popcorn to bourbon to biofuel. Speakers and Chefs will engage in conversation with each course to celebrate the diversity of corn in its many cultural forms on the table and honor the sacred vegetable’s important role in feeding people and animals around the world for thousands of years.
Speakers: Tyson Sampson + Amy Walker - Bigwitch Indian Wisdom Initiative, Sheri Castle - food writer, cooking teacher and host of The Key Ingredient
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Luis Martinez - Tequio Foods, Tie Whittaker - Buttermilk Boutique, Dano Holcomb - Root Down Food Truck, Iris Rodriguez - Little Chango Hispanic Craft Kitchen
Featured Beverage: Vidl Cellars, Pernod Ricard, Dobra Tea, Mixologist Darren Fallon - The Restoration Hotel, Highland Brewing, New Belgium Brewing, Noble Cider, Beam Suntory, Devil's Foot Beverage Company, Mountain Valley Spring Water, Sarilla Sparkling Tea, Blue Ridge Mountain Water sponsored by Biltmore
Event Sponsor: First Bank
Venue Sponsor: Highland Brewing Company