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Whole Hog Dinners, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, through Friday, February 10
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Our thirteenth annual Whole Hog event will soon be here. Over the past twelve years Oliveto’s Whole Hog dinners have become a spectacular array of pork preparations, a delicious extravaganza, but also somewhat excessive, and in recent years much copied and well…very 2007. So Chef Jonah’s decision to [...]

Whole Hog 2011 Update

New to this year’s Whole Hog Dinners, we’ll be wood fire roasting a different whole hog from one of our ranchers each night. Saturday, March 12th, will be Mac Magruder’s half Wild European, half Gloucestershire Old Spot heritage breed. Chef Jonah got pretty excited when he first starting…

Whole Hog Dinners 2011

This year’s event will be as fully developed and as decadent as Whole Hog dinners of the past, including such beloved items as choucroute garni, smoked and brined cuts, chops, meatballs, offal, braises, long-aged prosciuttos, and, of course, salumis of all stripes…in other words, pig from head to tail. Quite literally in fact: among Jonah’s new items…

Menu for Whole Hog Dinners 2010

Fried pork trotter with ancient Roman oenogarum

Terrina of pork ears with horseradish, celery heart, and frisée

Warm antipasto of pork tongue, artichokes, and black truffles

Sardinian pork tripe braised with saffron and mint; aged provolone
and Red Flint corn polenta

From the Field – Niman Ranch Update


After learning this past week of the sale of Niman Ranch, I called Paul Willis our Iowa hog farmer and co-founder of Niman Ranch Pork Company, to make sure he was OK. We were just beginning a week of Whole Hog dinners. The Niman Ranch name and the network of several hundred hog farmers who share animal treatment, feed and handling standards remain, but the company has not made it through this economy…

Whole Hog Dinners 2009

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Oliveto’s Whole Hog Dinners
Tuesday, February 3rd – Friday, February 6th

Whole Hog Dinners begin this Tuesday. We’re pretty much booked for Thursday and Friday, but still have some reservations available Tuesday…

Willis Farm – Profile

Paul Willis still lives on the farm where he grew up, in Thornton, IA about 100 miles north of Des Moines. Paul’s passions have always included animals and taking care of the land. It is this passion that led him…