Capital Spice has extensive coverage of Meat Week DC.

The most important event to us is the Meat Week Special Sneak Preview of Pork Barrel BBQ on Wednesday night at Mango Mike’s in Alexandria. This is important to us because we walk by the future site of Pork Barrel BBQ at least twice a day and the agonizingly slow pace of the construction is driving us crazy. We want our damn BBQ, already!

Fishinnards is working Wednesday, but I’m hoping to lure meatblogger Samer Farha to the event, so hopefully we’ll have a report for you on Thursday.

Happy Meatweek! How are you going to celebrate?

Oh dear, what’s a meatblog to do? It’s Groundhog Day (Rebecca’s favorite holiday since she was a small child) but we’ve gotten numerous queries about groundhog recipes. After a quick staff meeting, we decided we’d take the easy way out, and point you to NotionsCapital where Mike Licht has a very good post today, “Groundhog à la Audubon.” That way we can have our groundhog…and eat it, too, I suppose, if one is so inclined.

Incidentally, Punxsutawny Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter. We’re (allegedly) pretty non-judgmental about other people’s food choices, but you keep your roasting pan away from Phil, okay? I’m willing to let you eat other groundhog’s if the spirit moves you, but I have to draw the line at Phil. That would be like eating Grandma. Well, maybe not Grandma, but possibly that relative you don’t see very often who always sends you something cool for Christmas.

Oh, alright. I lied. It wasn’t so much a staff meeting as two of us sitting on the couch drinking coffee while I expressed angst about whether to blog about eating groundhogs. Eric artfully avoided comment by handing me the comics page from the paper and pointing at today’s cul de sac strip. That’s why he makes the big bucks. The other members of the meatblogging team can post their opinions in the comments. How’s that?

Epicurious reports on the World’s Largest Brat Festival, which was held on May 25th in Wisconsin.

189,432 bratwursts were consumed at the Brat Fest, a Brat Fest record. That means about 98 brats were eaten every minute (which clearly means some people weren’t doing their fair share of brat eating). That amounts to 37,886 lbs. of brats, 211.23 miles of brats.

I’ll leave you to your thoughts in that one. (And, yes, like all good human interest stories, this one does have a marriage proposal).

Signs from the Union Square Farmers’ Market last week:

Mmmmmmmm………bacon!

Slashfood reports that there’s going to be a Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines on March 1st. March 1st is National Pig Day, but more on that another day. (March 1st, perhaps?)

(link courtesy of GoshDarnKnit)