If you haven’t heard about the mangalitsa pig, you should. This prized, wooly breed is fatty and flavorful, and definitely not “the other white meat.”
A number of chefs are now harvesting the animals, and are offering them on the menu, but by far the best Mangalitsa-centric (secret) feast we’ve seen lately is this Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at the Epicurean Social Club/Matrix Winery dinner in Santa Rosa.
Feast on charcuterie, pork rinds with pork lard, pork sliders with saffron rouille, pork jowl bacon, pork belly sous vide, pork tenderloin with vanilla bean sauce and wild mushroom risotto, leaf-lard cocoa nib cookies sandwiches and of your the bacon-chocolate brittle goodie bag.
$95 per person includes wine, tickets by reservation only. Tickets at http://www.epicureanescape/epicurean-social-club.html