Birmingham Restaurateurs Are Working To Bring Heritage Pork To The Masses

The Fatback Pig Project is on a mission. Its objective: Herd heritage pork from the boutique and deliver it to the masses.

But the Birmingham-based collective must re-invent the wheel that once moved goods from nearby farms to local markets. Success requires finding the right farmers, mixing old-fashioned breeds to create a tastier hog, opening a processing plant, locating distributors and establishing customers.

"You have to tackle it at multiple levels," says longtime Birmingham restaurateur Nick Pihakis, co-founder of Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q and the Fatback Pig Project.

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