{"id":2817270,"date":"2015-07-29T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/?p=2817270"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:35:10","slug":"chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend, Chef Larissa Florica Popa recently held a pop up event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menageriekitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Menagerie Kitchen<\/a>\u00a0in the Indian Hill District of Pontiac Michigan. The Chef and this event were featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdetroit.com\/story\/29490501\/chef-larissa-popa-pork-rillettes\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Detroit\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0TV.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Larissa was raised in a Romanian, Hungarian and German household and\u00a0Eastern European cooking is organic and purely\u00a0natural to her extremely sophisticated palate. She\u00a0is a graduate of Schoolcraft College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolcraft.edu\/major\/culinary-arts#.Vbk3gbPD9QI\" target=\"_blank\">Culinary Arts program<\/a>. She also studied the art of whole hog butchery and charcuterie in France.<\/p>\n<p>The evening began with a crispy pig ear salad with\u00a0warm vinaigrette, local greens, and poached quail egg.\u00a0Next came \u00a0a charcuterie board trio of\u00a0pigface rillette, whipped lardo or &#8220;pig butter&#8221;, and pate with assorted pickles and mustard.\u00a0This amazing charcuterie board was my favorite course, and it was absolutely decadent and delicious. Chef Larissa&#8217;s amazing house made and house cured meats, butcher boards and ploughman&#8217;s plates can also be consumed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republictaverndetroit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Republic Tavern<\/a> in Detroit.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2817271 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog Charcuterie\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before our\u00a0main course we cleansed our palates with Linden flower granita.\u00a0The Chef&#8217;s flavorful main course was\u00a0crispy porchetta, scape pesto, stuffed sausage, and mushroom sauce. Scapes are the soft, lime-green-colored stems and unopened flower buds of garlic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2817272 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaMain.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog Stuffed Porchetta \" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaMain.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaMain-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dessert was an apple hand pie with pork frosting and bacon jam. \u00a0I could have gone for a few more of those!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2817273 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaDessert.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog Dessert\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaDessert.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaDessert-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuffed to the gills and extremely\u00a0content with this wonderful, whole hog, nose to tail banquet, we had to snap a photo with our amazing Chef at the end of the evening. \u00a0Brava my friend! Brava!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817274\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissa.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog\" width=\"702\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissa.jpg 702w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissa-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend, Chef Larissa Florica Popa recently held a pop up event at The Menagerie Kitchen\u00a0in the Indian Hill District of Pontiac Michigan. The Chef and this event were featured on Fox Detroit\u00a0\u00a0TV. Chef Larissa was raised in a Romanian, Hungarian and German household and\u00a0Eastern European cooking is organic and purely\u00a0natural to her extremely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[510,513,514,515,511,517,516,512],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chef Larissa Florica Popa recently held a whole hog pop up event at The Menagerie Kitchen in the Indian Hill District of Pontiac Michigan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kitoula\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kitoula\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"headline\":\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-29T21:21:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-30T15:35:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\"},\"wordCount\":264,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"charcuterie\",\"nose to tail\",\"Pop Up dinners\",\"Pop Up restaurants\",\"Romanian food\",\"stuffed porchetta\",\"Whole hog butchery\",\"Whole hog cooking\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Reviews &amp; Recommendations\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\",\"name\":\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-29T21:21:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-30T15:35:10+00:00\",\"description\":\"Chef Larissa Florica Popa recently held a whole hog pop up event at The Menagerie Kitchen in the Indian Hill District of Pontiac Michigan.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/larissaCharcuterie.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/07\/chef-larissa-whole-hog-popup\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chef Larissa goes Whole Hog\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\",\"name\":\"Kitoula's Greek Food Journal\",\"description\":\"I&#039;m Greek. 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