We've done an annual pig roast for the last few years, usually in November. A good friend of mine, the writer Jack Hitt, is from South Carolina and his passion is cooking whole animals. Every year at Yale there's a Jack Hitt Memorial Pig Roast—though he's nowhere near dead—that he supervises.
In case you missed it: here’s Michael Pollan giving our Pig Roast a shout out in the Wall Street Journal! Though we should note that he doesn’t have the name quite right— this year we’re looking forward to the Fifth Annual Last Day of Classes Jack Hitt Pig Roast, named in honor of the man who’s been guiding us through the long, slow-cooking night for as long as we’ve been having them.
