2014 Farm Roast Highlights

Wondering where all that delicious food came from at the 2014 Farm Roast?

We were so lucky and proud to work with 8 incredible chefs, and featured ingredients from 16 local and sustainable farmers and producers.

Plus, 13 products from Slow Food’s Ark of Taste and Presidi um, a list of endangered products at risk of extinction, were incorporated into the feast! We hope you’ll visit these restaurants and support these producers next time you see them at the Farmers Market!

Ark of Taste Products

American Native Pecan: Staple food for American Indian

American Persimmon: Burnt orange colored fruit with a unique, succulent flesh

Anishinaabeg Manoomin (Wild Rice): Tall, aquatic grass native to North America

Beaver Dam Pepper: Mildly hot Hungarian heirloom pepper

Pawpaw: Largest edible fruit native to the US; has a creamy, custard-like flesh with a tropical flavor

Sheboygan Tomato: Strongly flavored heirloom tomato with complex flavor and great balance of sweetness and acidity

Tennis Ball Lettuce: Black-seeded lettuce with light green leaves

Sorghum: Native African drought-resistant, heat tolerant grass

Presidium Products

Red Kenema Kola Nut: from Sierra Leone

Chinotto: myrtle-leaf orange tree cultivated in Ligurian Riviera

Trapani Sea Salt: Sicilian sea salt, produced from July to September

Cervia Sea Salt: Ravenna Province sea salt, produced from June to September

Melighe: Mondovi cornmeal biscuits

Farmers and Producers

Catalpa Grove Farm
www.catalpagrovefarm.com

Garden Gate Produce
www.facebook.com/Garden-Gate-Fruit-Market-Deli

Spence Farm Foundation
www.spencefarmfoundation.org

Gunthrop Farms
www.gunthorpfarms.com

Cook’s Bison Ranch
www.cooksbisonranch.com

Native Harvest
www.nativeharvest.com

Scrumptious Pantry
www.scrumptiouspantry.com

Montalbano Farms
www.montalbanofarms.com

Mick Klug Farm
www.mickklugfarm.com

Slagel Family Farm
www.slagelfamilyfarm.com

Integration Acres
www.integrationacres.com

Co-op Hot Sauce
www.coopsauce.com

Crumb
www.crumbchicago.com

Pear Tree Preserves
www.peartreepreserves.com

Great Lakes Sugarbush
www.facebook.com/great.lakes.sugarbush

Whole Foods Lincoln Park
ww.wholefoodsmarket.com

Chefs and Restaurants

Wood
www.woodchicago.com

Eataly
www.eataly.com/eataly-chicago/

Browntrout
www.browntroutchicago.com

Dia de los Tamales
www.diadelostamales.com

Bang Bang Pie Shop
www.bangbangpie.com

Heartland Café
www.heartlandcafe.com

Goose Island Brew Pub
www.gooseisland.com

Gorgeous header photo by Ryan Kimura

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