One of the evening's victims, in mid-takedownLast night's pig roast at SOMA bar Bloodhound saw two superstars of the city's pig culture go head-to-head in a hack-off. Call it more a demonstration of competing butchery styles than an Iron Chef smackdown: Chicharrones king Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Fatted Calf's mortadella meister Taylor Boetticher showed off radically different ways of dismembering. By the end of the evening, it wasn't clear who won. Though, clearly, the losers were the pair o
Relive the magic.Remember how much fun Bloodhound's last mashup of butchery and boozing was? Here's your chance to touch the magic (ar at least risk being splattered by it) all over again. On June 16 - next Tuesday - Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Taylor Boetticher of Fatted Calf are tag-teaming for Porkapalooza: Two guys, one pig, and several scary-looking knives. Instead of demo-butchering separate pigs as in May's hackoff, they'll work on a single victim suspended from the ceiling, slaughterhous
Maybe pigs are the gateway agilitynut/FlickrSteers = the new hogs.drug of butchery, the giggly little high that leads inevitably to the synapse-busting experience that leaves you watching the fibers in your flokati coalesce into runes.
On Tuesday, July 28th, meat gods Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher are slated to drop a load of whoa on Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Langton) in SOMA, when they tag-team butcher the forequarter of a 175-pound steer hanging from the rafters. The creature will have bee
kimoWear something splatter-proof.Another carving party led by meat superstars Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher will throw down when Petting Zoo hits at Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Seventh St.) next Tuesday, Nov. 3. Forty large will get you all the (spit-roasted) food you can eat, demonstration viewing, and one free cocktail at the bar. The chefs will tag-team butcher a goat and a lamb, as well as spit-roast an entire hog over an open fire. Chicken beer sausages, pork-crack chicharrones, ra
J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur S
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