They were eager to be here, clearly, en route to a muddy pasture, where, once they are detailed, Bartlett offered an unsparing description of the life of a pig. Around us, the real things squealed and squirmed and sprinted.
Bartlett has emerged as the Southern rock star of pig farming—these days, you’ll find the words “Home Place Pastures” cited on nearly every high-end restaurant in Jackson and Oxford and New Orleans. And the annual Hill Country Boucherie & Blues Picnic he hosts on his family’s farm in Como has become a summer-camp reunion for top Southern culinary talent. At last year’s festival, the chefs, along with a gaggle of music lovers, arrived on Friday evening, setting up tents and trailers in the woods while indie bands signed to a local label rocked on a stage near the barn. The next morning, after coffee and breakfast tacos, everyone floated lazily on the farm pond. Now, though, they were ready to see—quite literally—how the sausage is made.
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