The Porktacular - Pig Island NYC - is Back for its 11th Year of Deliciousness!

The delicious Pig Island NYC - a portacular of meats - is returning for its 11th year on September 12, 2020 – with all the great food and beverages you have come to know and love, as a socially distant picnic. This year, with our new state of normal they have rolled out significant new safety guidelines to ensure everyone can enjoy the event safely and without worry.

To do so, Jimmy Carbone, the Founder of Food Karma Projects and the organizer behind the holiest day of swine, has relocated the event from Brooklyn to a new and extremely spacious location: the Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, a historic 83-acre campus with dynamic programming in the arts, agriculture, horticulture, and education, with plenty of parking, on Staten Island.

The festival will be a low-risk outdoor recreational activity. It’s an all-inclusive picnic featuring barbecue all-stars like Tank Jackson of Charleston’s Holy City Hogs, Trevor Kunk of The Little Beet, Mario Chape of Big Papa Smokem, Jase Franklyn of Jase BBQ, and Mike Lapi, a chef, farmer, and butchering instructor at SUNY Cobleskill. We’ll also have beer from Staten Island’s Flagship Brewery, cider, spirits and delicious side dishes like Geechie Boy grits with shrimp.  

This event is sure to be the perfect event to cap off your summer while enjoying some tasty treats. Be sure not to hog all the food, and bring your own masks, blankets (its a pignic!), hand sanitizer, and anything else to ensure you enjoy your day. Get your tickets ASAP!

CHEF LINEUP AND DISHES

Tank Jackson, Holy City Hogs
Tank and his friends like pitmaster Rob Nelson from Arkansas and Trevor Kunk of NYC’s The Little Beet will have three delicious stations featuring overnight slow smoked whole-hog heritage breed ossabaw barbecue with collard greens; brats, sausages, and hot dogs; and Mrs. Paul's Shrimp with Geechie Boy Mill grits.

Rodrigo Duarte, Caseiro E Bom
Rodrigo is a charcuterie master who will be serving Alemtejano heritage breed pork.

Mario Chape, Big Papa Smokem
Mario will be cooking with Phil Wingo of Pork Mafia and the crew from La Cubana to honor Carl Ruiz who Mario partnered up with last year to take home an award. They’ll be serving a barbecue smorgasbord featuring puerco a lo cubano.

Matt Fisher, Pitmaster formerly with Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue
Matt will be making Laphroaig glazed pork burnt ends with summer corn pudding.

Cenobio Canalizo, Morgan's Brooklyn Barbecue
Cenobio is preparing ribs and candied bacon mac & cheese.

Mike Lapi, SUNY Cobleskill and Chefs' Consortium
Mike will be using his expert butchery skills to create custom sausages.

Jesse Jones, Pow: My Life in 40 Feasts
Chef Jesse is preparing dirty corn muffins topped with North Carolina-style pulled whole hog, pickled slaw, and his sweet heat barbecue sauce.

Jase Franklyn, Jase BBQ
Jase will be cooking ribs and his signature BBQ pigtails.

Mike Petrovitch, Que Chevere
Mike is making pernil y arroz con gandules (roast pork with rice and pigeon peas) - a traditional Puerto Rican rice dish! Their pork shoulders marinate for eight hours and then are slow roasted for 48 hours resulting in fall-off-the bone meat.

Luis Rivera JR., Fathers and Sons Kitchen
Luis is planning smoked pork ‘pernil’ featuring the restaurant’s award-winning line of barbecue and hot sauces.

Joe Tacoronte, Bearded BBQ NYC and Harbor Eats
Joe is preparing a delicious pork shoulder.

John Fuchs and Vinny Ferrante, Red Hook Raiders, FDNY
You can expect John and Vinny’s famous ribs that took home a prize at Pig Island 2019.

Pete Calascione, Friends of Firefighters
Pete is making brisket sliders in partnership with our community partner, Friends of Firefighters.

Matthew Worgul, Gentle Giant Barbecue

Leland Avellino, Avellino Family Barbecue

OTHER FOOD
Coney Island Saucery
Jammy!

BEVERAGES
Flagship Brewery
Original Sin Cider
Kills Boro Brewing Company
Knob Creek
Laphroaig Whiskey
Romilly Cider
Specials thanks to Juicy Lucy BBQ and The Hop Shoppe who are helping to make this event possible!

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