It’s Slow Food Week at Jimmy’s No. 43

PorkChop

Carlo Petrini is back in NYC!

Jimmy’s No. 43 is committed to supporting local food purveyors and area farmers, and you see it in our menu (and our tap list – beer and cider are foods, right?) every day. Featured on our menu this week is a new dish: Flying Pigs Farm Smoked Pork Chop, served with Brussels Sprouts and Grits

It’s all part of our focus on slow food for the next week or so in honor of Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini, who we hope will be visiting us again (a recap on his visit last month to Jimmy’s No. 43 is here). Among the features of our Slow Food “Week”:
  • *Hosting Slow Food Italy students for an upcoming luncheon.
  • *Appearing at TedX Change Food panel on Thursday, November 13th.
  • *On Saturday, November 15th, we are hosting a slow food/slow music with Ted “The Butcher” Nigro leading a whole hog carving workshop in one room of the restaurant while Shape Note performs (their colonial era sacred harp singing was a highlight of Carlo’s last visit; he remarked how Jimmy’s No. 43 is a pleasant change from all the NYC bars with TVs).
  • *Hosting new Just Food Executive Director Jasmine Nielsen for a meet-and-greet on November 20th.
  • *And, of course, featuring other local foods on the menu and beers by NYC brewers, ciders by NY State cideries, and wines from Long Island.

Speaking of Slow Food… our friends at Slow Food NYC are presenting a documentary at this weekend’s NYC DOC film festival: Grazers: A Cooperative Story about the great group of people behind the Adirondack Grazers Cooperative (get tickets to see the movie here).

Finally, owner Jimmy Carbone was recently profiled in the Eat Well Guide, where he talked about his journey in slow food.

And we’ll have regular bar/restaurant service available all week long during these events.