Pork Month off to a tasty start
Only a couple of days into Pork Month, but it’s already off to a roaring start. What will the rest of the month hold?
The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. No, I don’t mean the start of the football season, or even the beginning of fall harvest. Of course, what I am referring to is the start of October and with it, the start of National Pork Month.
Your friends at National Pork Board kicked off the month in fine form, as the Innovation Kitchen at the NPB HQ in Clive, Iowa, was formally opened, and what an opening it was. I had the good fortune of attending as Chef José Mendin, a Puerto Rican native, christened the new kitchen by treating a roster of Iowa ag and retail leaders to a trip through Latino cuisine by crafting dishes from Peru, El Salvador, Mexico and, of course, his native Puerto Rico.
In addition to October being National Pork Month, it is also Hispanic Heritage Month, so appropriately the NPB was also discussing a new report addressing the need to meet the needs of the underserved Hispanic population of the United States. “Time to Tango