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| Ciao from your local goodie, Panzanella! Parker Family Farm Dinner Monday, October 12, 5:30 - 9:00 pm This Monday, Panzanella Chef, Jim Nixon will create a special menu featuring pasture-raised pork from Parker Family Farms, a small family farm nestled between Hillsborough and Roxboro in the Hurdle Mills area of Northern Orange County. Randall and Renee Parker are both Orange County natives from farming families. Together they are dedicated to raising their 4 children along with their crops and animals in a wonderful farming environment. The children help with feeding and watering the animals, and raise their own pigs, cows and chickens for 4-H. The children also help with harvesting crops. >>> more |
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 At Parker Family Farm, the Farmer's Hybrid hogs are raised on open pasture along with a few cows. They rotate their pigs periodically to graze on forages of fescue, barley, millet, clover and other mixed grasses. Along with pasture to graze, the pigs receive a corn feed mix. The Parkers adhere to the Animal Welfare Institute standards, practice humane husbandry skills and do not use antibiotics or growth hormones in their animals' feed. A slightly abbreviated version of our regular dinner menu—including vegetarian dishes—will also be available. |
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| View the Farm Dinner menu here. | |||
| Holiday Farm Dinners Coming! | |||
 We will continue celebrating local abundance with our Farm Dinners through the end of this year. Working with ingredients from a few of our favorite farms, we will create very special holiday menus that celebrate Thanksgiving and a traditional Italian Christmas. Save the date for our Holiday Farm Dinners: Monday, November 23 Monday, December 14 - Italian Holiday Dinner |
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 Vallevò PecorinoWe generally use the word, 'pecorino', Italian for 'sheep' to refer to the lusciously salty Italian sheep's milk cheese we all love. In this case however, pecorino is the name of a grape. There is no certain answer as to why this thin-skinned, early ripening, low-yielding grape came to be called 'pecorino', but some say it is because the local sheep love them so, others believe the grape was named for the marvelous pairing of this white wine from Abruzzo with the famous cheese of Rome. Though Abruzzo is well known for its pristine environment, having earned the definition of 'Regione Verde d'Europa' ('European Green Region'), few know that viticulture was introduced in this region by the Etruscans in the Sixth or Seventh century B.C. Viticulture knowledge and techniques were passed from generation to generation and improved upon over the course of time, making Abruzzo currently the fifth largest wine producing region of Italy. Rediscovered in the mountain ravines of the Marche during the 1970s, Pecorino was believed to be extinct, and is now cultivated on small parcels in the Marche, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Liguria, Lazio and Umbria. There is some speculation that Pecorino is an ancestor of Pinot Blanc & Pinot Gris. With a pale straw color, Vallevò Pecorino is beautifully light wine with flavors and aromas of citrus, sage and wild flowers. The finish is dry and structured with crisp acidity, minerallity and faint traces of spice. Vallevò Pecorino is great as an aperitif, and with light pasta and all fish dishes. Try it with our Gnocchi, to sample it's delicious partnership with pecorino cheese. |
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 Matthew Scott MeyersOctober 12 - December 7 In between lunch and the Farm Dinner on October 12th, the art at Panzanella will change. The Designer/Artist exhibit, which shows the personal artwork of 12 professional designers will come down. Paintings by local artist Matthew Scott Meyers will go on exhibit through December 7. |
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| View more of Meyers' work here. | |||