Camp Bacon 2012

Saturday, June 2nd
8:00am to 4:00pm

An all day event at Zingerman’s Roadhouse.
This year’s guest presenters (tentative lineup) include:
Emile de Felice – owner of Caw Caw Creek Farms, South Carolina – the ins and outs of sustainable hog farming
Allan Benton – founder and owner, Benton’s Country Hams – the tradition of pork curing in the Appalachians
Sam Edwards – founder and owner, Edwards Virginia Country Hams – sharing the Edwards story
Geoff Emberling – PhD archeologist and museum curator – hog raising in the Middle East before Mohammed
Ji Hye Kim – founder of San Street – a brief survey of bacon cooking and eating in Asia
Tamar Adler – nationally recognized and award winning author of An Everlasting Meal, sharing her journey from camp as a child to Camp Bacon
Ari Weinzweig – co-founding partner of Zingerman’s and author of Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon – a look at bacon history in Hungary

Proceeds from this event benefit Southern Foodways Alliance, which Corby Kummer called “this country’s most intellectually engaged (and probably most engaging) food society” in the Atlantic Monthly.

Spaces are limited. Tickets are $195/person and include breakfast, lunch and more bacon than you knew you could eat.

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Bacon BalL – SOLD OUT!

Thursday, May 31st at Zingerman’s Roadhouse

What do you get when you bring together two James Beard Award winning chefs, a hundred-plus bacon partying guests and a whole meal’s worth of smoky bacon beauty? You get the annual Camp Bacon Kickoff Ball at Zingerman’s Roadhouse!

Guest chef Frank Stitt, from Highlands Grill in Birmingham, Alabama will join fellow James Beard winner, Roadhouse chef and managing partner Alex Young, to prepare a special evening meal that will be bursting with bacon in every course!

The dinner is a fundraiser for the Southern Foodways Alliance, our favorite food-oriented non-profit.

Alabama Bacon BBQ Dinner

Friday, June 1st, 2012
6:00pm to 8:00pm

Chef Alex and guest chef Frank Stitt team up for a second night of bacon, this time pairing bacon with its good friend BBQ. Celebrating Frank’s home state of Alabama, the two chefs will prepare a buffet feast of classic Alabama BBQ. You can find almost any kind of BBQ in Alabama; it’s a state that draws culinary influences from around the state, the country and throughout history and foodways. This buffet feast will celebrate the best of Alabama BBQ and bacon. After all, everything is better with bacon!

$55/person, make your reservations before they sell out!

Kenny Brown concert at the Ark

ImageFriday, June 1, 8pm • $30 reserved, $20 general admission

Kenny Brown makes the long journey from the North Mississippi hill country to join us for a night of slide guitar and downhome blues. Kenny comes from a long line of great Mississippi bluesmen and learned his craft from the famed R. L. Burnside. A rare Michigan appearance from a blues legend!

Tickets available at theark.org

Potlikker Film Festival!

Imagewith award-winning filmmaker Joe York from the Southern Foodways Alliance
Saturday, June 2, view schedule here • Price information here

This year the Michigan Theater is launching the first annual Cinetopia International Film Festival and Zingerman’s Camp Bacon is joining in the fun! With this festival, the Michigan Theater inaugurates a full-scale, international film festival for Ann Arbor (Sundance started small, too!). The festival will feature award-winning movies from around the world and will have a special focus on documentaries.

For details, go to www.michtheater.org/cinetopia

Annual Bacon­ Street­ Fair and Fundraiser
for 4-H­ Club­ of­ Washtenaw­ County

Sunday, June 3rd
11:00am to 2:00pm

Hosted at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. A four-hour street fair with an array of vendors selling, sampling and showcasing all things bacon—a great way to have lunch, sample new bacon wares, or just have some fun with bacon-based games for kids of all ages.

Donation to 4-H suggested to enter the street fair; vendors sell their fare directly to Campers.