They’re cooking up the ‘cue at Fancy Farm
Ben Thompson waits Friday morning for more pork shoulders to be brought to the barbecue pit at Fancy Farm. Photo by Tom Eblen
St. Jerome Catholic Church in the small Graves County community of Fancy Farm had a 7 a.m. mass Friday, then the priest blessed the meat and the people of the church got cooking.
They’re working all day and night Friday to prepare 18,500 pounds of barbecued pork and mutton for the more than 10,000 people expected here Saturday for the church’s annual picnic. It’s the Commonwealth’s best meal of the year, and a chance to hear Kentucky politicians take their best verbal shots at each other.
Be sure to get Saturday and Sunday’s Herald-Leader for full coverage of the politics, the food and the scene. And watch this blog, PolWatchers and Kentucky.com all weekend for updates.
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August 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Well said! People come from great distances each year to visit with family and childhood friends on the firstSaturday in August. Members of my family have been returning to Facny Farm on the Picnic Weekend every since we moved away from Kentucky in January 1951.