Contest Fist Fight

[jdt]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland police had to break up a fist-fight after a pig-cooking contest that resulted in a chef and the event's organizer being arrested.

The Oregonian reports that after the Sunday event, chef Eric Bechard confronted Brady Lowe, the cook-off's organizer, denouncing the contest for giving top marks to pork raised in Iowa.

Bechard advocates using locally raised food, and told police he didn't like the contest bringing in a pig from Iowa.


Lowe says the event at a downtown hotel used three Oregon pigs, along with one from Kansas and another from Iowa.

The newspaper says the Multnomah County district attorney's office declined to prosecute the two gourmets.

 

[jirodriguez]

I would laugh.... but I live in Portland....so all I can do is shake my head in amazement.... heh-heh.

 

[jdt]

the one guy was a chef at a famous oyster bar but left to go open a new more laid back resturant but ended up drunk at a off site strip club fighting with a contest organizer, guess the country life was to slow paced LOL.

 

[Bearcarver]

Sounds like the pig wasn't the only one Smoked!

Bearcarver

 

[jirodriguez]

I would like to say I was supprised.... but this is Portland... all kinds of wierd stuff happens here... lol. I had read about the event, the idea was top chef's cooking an entire pig, and using everything possible. Tickets to "attend" were like $125, so I didn't go.... lol.

 

[mballi3011]

So who won?????THE PIG from Iowa or the oregon pig