Annie Gunn’s

Roasted Prairie Grass Farms leg of lamb on grilled Companion bread with local peaches, Goatsbeard Farm chevre, and caramelized candy onions.

Araka

Local Watermelon Gazpacho with Sweet Yellow Corn, Rock Shirpm and Housemade Fresh Corn Tortillas

Bailey’s / Rooster

1. Fruitland Farms Chipotle Pulled Pork with Eckert’s Peach Salsa on San Louis Tortilla  Chips

2. Buila Land Jalapenos stuffed with Heartland Creamery Goat Cheese and Caramelized Onion, Wrapped in Fruitland Farms Bacon

Overlook Farm – Clarksville, MO

Vesterbrook FarmLamb “Rillets” with Overlook Farm Garden Greens & Chopped Duck Eggs

Erato

Farrar Out Farm Rabbit Gumbo

Harvest

1. Missouri Grass Fed Oxtail Barley with Peppered Ahi Tuna and a Roasted Sweet Red Pepper Emulsion

2. Warmed Companion Brioche Bread Pudding with Bourbon Currant Sauce and Vanilla Whipped Cream

Kakao Chocolate

1. Homemade Marshmallow Pies with Chocolate and Pecans
2. Hand-Dipped Caramels with Sea Salt

Local Harvest

Biver Farms Heirloom Tomato Flatbread with Goastbeard Farm Goat Cheese and Pesto

Mad Art

Citrus Cured Troutdale Farm Trout with Baetje Goat Cheese, Fresh Claverach Farms Cucumber-Pickled Ginger Chutney and Radish Shoots on a Black Mustard Seed Cracker

Monarch

Root Cellar and Hannaway Farms Tomato Terrine, Whipped Balsamic, Goatsbeard Chevre Crème Fraiche, Black Olive Oil

Niche

Spicy Pork Meatballs – Greenwood Farms

Serendipity Ice Cream

“Peaches and Cream Floats” – Calhoun County Peach Ice Cream Floated in Fitzs Cream Soda

Sidney Street Café

EIEIO Acres Goat Sliders with Pickled St. Isidore Farms Eggplant, Arugula, and Curry Aioli on a Housemade Sesame Bun

Winslow’s Home

1. Chilled Winslow’s Home and Farm Eggplant Soup with Sweet Curry Creme Fraiche

2. Garlic Rubbed Benne’s Best Smoked Chicken with Winslow’s Home and Farm Red Onion Jalapeno Jam on Toasted 222 Artisan Bakery Baguette

It was a long day of oppressive heat and ferocious winds that have left me too drained to really comment at the moment, but in the end the food was great, the hospitality was incredible, and we all walked away convinced that the Hillebrand’s live on one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Thanks to Barb and Dave Hillebrand and their family, chef Tim Grandinetti for helping out once again, and all the chefs he enlisted including Lou Rook III, Dave Owens, Margaret Kelly, Kevin Nashan, Christy Augustine, and all their staff that tagged along to sweat in Grandma Hillebrand’s garage.

I took over 500 pictures (of questionable quality) so I had to put them on my own site rather than Slow Food’s, but they are now uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

-BB