This weekend Carl and I attended the first Georgia farm aid concert at Whippoorwill Hollow Farm in Walnut Grove, 30 miles from downtown Atlanta.
Some of Atlanta's top chefs turned up to perform cooking demonstrations:
Chef Anne Quatrano from Bacchanalia
Michael Tuohy from Woodfire Grill
Pithya Kongthavorn from L'Thai Restaurant
Chef Scott Peacock from Watershed
Chef Tamar Adler from Farm255
Anne Quantrano's shrimp pilau with south carolina yellow rice was outrageously good. The others weren't bad either, and the bluegrass/southern rock music was great.
We walked around the farm, enjoying the chickens, turkeys, sheep, goats, horses and fields of green. It was like a day in the country at a friend's farm. Sitting around with a beer, listening to down-home music, and watching the horses kick up their heels with cool-weather spirits.
We saw a demonstration on how to ferment vegetables (good to know the little secret ins and outs of fermentation), and bought beautiful red pickled cherry bomb peppers, hot spicy pickled garlic and delicious mild pickled okra (from Full Moon Farms), along with fresh veggies from the farm table of Tucker and Celia's Woodland Gardens. We had tasty samples of sweet potato chips from farm 255, "a restaurant that seeks to reconnect food to its roots & people to their food."
Other Georgia Organics events are found here.
