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Please Check back for Pig Island 2012 New York City will celebrate September with the 2011 food event everyone's been waiting for: Pig Island II! Picking up where we left off in 2010, Pig Island II is an all-local event, featuring farmers, chefs, brewers and vintners, bringing the best of New York State to New York City. Pig Island II will source 80 hogs from NY farmers, prepared by 20 top NYC chefs including Heather Carlucci-Rodrigues (Print), Mary Cleaver (Cleaver & Co.), Jacques Gautier (Palo Santo) and King Phojankong (Kuma Inn and Umi Nom). This farm/food collaboration will be complemented by specialty craft beer and NY wine, cooking demonstrations, and opportunities to see the best of New York in action. Pig Island II will take place on September 10th, from 11:30am - 5pm, on Governors Island's historic Colonel's Row. Special features: PBS Channel 13 food show host Michael Colameco who will serve as Honorary Co-Chair and film a special episode about Pig Island. Click here for the Chef line up! Check out the video from Pig Island 2010 below!
 Buy Pig Mountain tickets here: http://pigmountaincatskills.eventbrite.com Join the Pig Island team for a weekend in the Catskills! 4 chefs pit roasting NY state pigs, music and some of the best beer and wine to be found in the state! Pig Mountain Catskills Announces Chef Additions For October 15th Event Pig Mountain Catskills will offer up a pig roast celebrating all things local on Saturday, October 15th from 1-6 p.m. at Bridle Hill Farm (190 Hemmer Road, Jeffersonville, NY). The event will feature four chefs roasting eight whole hogs provided by Hahn’s Farm; vegetarian sides; beer and wine from New York state; and a music slate TBA. Proceeds will benefit Farmhearts, a non-profit helping family farms in the Catskills. Jimmy Carbone (Jimmy’s No. 43), and Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez (Print Restaurant) along with the team that brought you Pig Island, had been looking for a location outside the city to do a fall event. "We have a great slate of chefs." It’s a chance for some city chefs to have a real country experience,” Carbone notes. Chefs include:
For those wanting to make a weekend of it, chefs will be digging their pits and starting their roasts Friday evening, and a special Pig Mountain Catskills Brunch will be served up by Early Bird Cookery on Sunday, October 16th (reserved seatings at 10 a.m and noon) at Hill’s Country Inn (6 Bethlehem Road, Callicoon Center, NY). The brunch menu includes a three-course menu, including trout hash, farmer’s market frittata and roasted corn fritters with candied bacon. Early bird tickets (through October 1st) for Pig Mountain are $35; general admission tickets will be $45. The brunch seating requires a reservation (845-932-7994) and is also $35. Stores in Narrowsburg will be selling advance tickets. More details are available at ilikepig.com. Lodging information can be found at www.scva.net (Sullivan County Visitor’s Association) and www.outinthecatskills.com.  Food Karma Projects is a creative producer of food and media events throughout the New York area. Created by Jimmy Carbone—a NYC-based restaurateur and dedicated social entrepreneur—Food Karma Projects’ unique events showcase the best local food, chefs, beer and wine, and worthy non-profit groups. Recent projects have included: New York City Brewer's Choice (for NY Craft Beer Week), Hungry Filmmakers, Meatopia, Pig Island, Taste of Tribeca (PR), Cook Out NYC, and various charity cook-offs for organizations such as Grow NYC Greenmarkets, Slow Food NYC, JustFood, Food Systems Network NYC, and The New Amsterdam Market.
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