Eye Candy: Bone-In Pork Belly with Celeriac Mousseline, Oyster Mushrooms, and Cured Duck Yolks

At CRāVing in upstate New York, chef Adam Goetz makes the most of every single ingredient: he carefully preserves each season’s harvest, turns milk from a nearby dairy into cheese, makes his own charcuterie, and practices whole-animal butchery to round off his extensive local pantry. So it’s no surprise that at his recent Beard House dinner Goetz served a menu that truly honored and highlighted the flavors of the Empire State’s remarkable bounty. With dishes like mortadella-stuffed agnolotti and milk-fed veal carpaccio with black pepper–olive oil croutons, guests were treated to an evening full of impeccable farm-inspired fare. A fan favorite of the night was the cured, smoked, and braised bone-in pork belly from T-Meadow Farm. The luscious, tender pork belly was matched with a creamy celeriac mousseline, earthy mushrooms, a tangy kale stem relish, and topped off with a shower of grated cured duck yolks. Equal parts inventive and sustainably-focused, this comforting dish truly showed how age-old cooking and preserving methods can elevate even the most spectacular ingredients.

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Hilary Deutsch is editorial assistant at the James Beard Foundation. Find her on Instagram.