Chow Chow’s 2022 programming includes fun, delicious, immersive, meaningful, and educational events that celebrate and enrich the unique foodways of Southern Appalachia. All events take place in the beautiful city of Asheville, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
This event is family friendly! Tickets are required for children 5 and over. Children under 5 admitted free. This is a cocktail style Flights & Bites event, featuring up to 7 chefs creating 3 small dishes each, as well as up to 7 craft beverage makers, offering an array of delicious drink samples.
Menu sneak peek! This event is the most vegetarian forward of the summer – 18 of 21 dishes are vegetarian! These talented chefs are cooking up an exciting selection of dishes! Menu options being discussed are: elderberry glazed beets, smoky eggplant soup, homemade lebanese ashta cream with pistachio crumble, French country bread with goat cheese spread, pork rillettes, Northern Thai sausage, corn & peach salad, marinated shrimp salad, mini zaatar manoushe with cashew shanklish, tuxapeno corn grit breadstick, rye, apple & black walnut cake, heirloom tomato caprese, coconut curry soup, macadamia cake with pineapple relish, shakshuka, Jerusalem poutine, whipped labneh with pistachio brittle and pomegranate molasses and more to come!
Before the Industrial Revolution, when the greater part of the world’s population was engaged in agriculture, cottage industry was a common hedge against hunger. Farmers and their families used the lean months of winter, after their crops had been harvested and sold, to earn money by selling preserved goods and handicrafts, or doing piecework for others. Culinary and craft makers continue to embrace this concept of working from home, and there is a thriving contemporary cottage industry. Often showcasing their goods alongside farmers at local markets, these makers and homesteaders contribute another valuable experience borne of the local agricultural community. For this event, we’ll gather together several entrepreneurial chefs, makers and beverage producers whose business model is based on, or originated from, bringing their delicious craft from their home to yours.
Featured Chefs: Madeline Redo & Trevor Musick – Cassia, Elijah Je Bailey & Sydney Rubin – Hominy Farm, Jametta Raspberry – House of Gristle, Regan Stachler – Bramble Events, Dune Pierre Michel – French Broad Pantry, Hector & Julia Revilla – Mamones, Gabe McIntosh & Mei Kawamura – Better Thymes, Nicole Case – Coco’s Bake Shop
Featured Beverage: Cultivated Cocktails Distillery, Archetype Brewing, Hillman Beer, Seedlip, Chemist Spirits, Top of the Monk, Botanist & Barrel, Savor Shrub, Shanti Elixirs, Embrew Tea, Devil’s Foot Beverage Company, Sarilla Sparkling Tea, Blue Ridge Mountain Water sponsored by Biltmore
Makers Market: Botanical Bones, Loom Imports, Matcha Nude, Provisions Mercantile, Organic Growers School, Goddess Ghee, Red Fiddle Vittles, Embrew Tea