{"id":395,"date":"2009-03-23T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-03-24T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T14:24:03","slug":"go-mike-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/go-mike-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Go, Mike, go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My former colleague and sometime dining companion Mike Sula is a finalist for a James Beard award<\/a>, for the Whole Hog Project<\/a> — a yearlong chronicle of the care, feeding, and, yes, eating of a mulefoot pig. The multimedia project was a collaborative effort, with culminating in a terrific two-part video by Sky Full of Bacon<\/a>‘s Mike Gebert and a reportedly delicious five-course, snout-to-tail dinner at Blackbird<\/a> cooked by Paul Kahan and an all-star squad local chefs.<\/p>\n

This is a huge honor, and well deserved. The WHP landed Mike on the hit list of more than a few vocal vegetarians, but I think it’s one of the best contemporary \u00a0examples of how a close read of one story — in this case, that of \u00a0a pig named Dee Dee — can illuminate the dim corners of the bigger picture, ie: the murky but ultrabuzzy concept of “sustainability.” It’s the kind finegrained narrative storytelling that doesn’t get done so much anymore, being rather hard to fit into a tweet.<\/p>\n

PS: I picked up a copy of the RAFT<\/a> book, Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods<\/a>, this weekend in Madison and was stoked to see a familiar little snout illustrating the entry for “Mulefoot Hog” on page 128\u00a0(the same photo that’s on the Reader’s blog post today). Mike, I hope they asked for permission!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My former colleague and sometime dining companion Mike Sula is a finalist for a James Beard award, for the Whole Hog Project — a yearlong chronicle of the care, feeding, and, yes, eating of a mulefoot pig. The multimedia project was a collaborative effort, with culminating in a terrific two-part video by Sky Full of … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}