The Midwest
Because we love pigs. What’s the most prized animal in the country these days?The Berkshire pig, whose meat is found on the menus of ingredient-driven restaurants from Momofuku in New York to Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Those kitchens have to fly in their supplies, but chef Jonathan Justus, owner of the farm-to-table restaurant Justus Drugstore in the little town of Smithville, only has to drive a few miles to pick up his. It’s this ideal location, paired with Justus’s “make it from scratch” philosophy, that has made his year-old restaurant the apotheosis of locavore dining. On the menu this summer: the pig (naturally), served with a blueberry-ginger sauce and heirloom polenta from nearby War Eagle Mill.
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