{"id":50261,"date":"2023-04-28T11:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=50261"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:07:47","slug":"students-pig-out-at-porkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/students-pig-out-at-porkorama\/","title":{"rendered":"Students pig out at Porkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-attachment-id=\"50269\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/students-pig-out-at-porkorama\/dcim100goprogopr0051-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HERO10 Black&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;DCIM100GOPROGOPR0051.JPG&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1682171881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.71&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00064516129032258&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DCIM100GOPROGOPR0051.JPG&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DCIM100GOPROGOPR0051.JPG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;DCIM100GOPROGOPR0051.JPG&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-50269 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student.jpg\" alt=\"Porkorama is the brainchild of Dr. Mark A. Johnson, associate lecturer of history at UTC.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/04\/RtLGriffinWrightJohnson_Student-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porkorama is the brainchild of Dr. Mark A. Johnson, associate lecturer of history at UTC. Photo by Sam Lennon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The smell of hickory smoke and slow-cooked hog hung over campus last weekend as students, faculty and family gathered for the first University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Porkorama. A pork barbecue extravaganza, the event was organized by the UTC History Department and the Honors College as a celebration of the history of Appalachian culture and cuisine. It was also a great excuse to eat some excellent food.<\/p>\n<p>Porkorama is the brainchild of Dr. Mark A. Johnson, associate lecturer of history at UTC. Johnson said he has fond memories of a similar event he experienced while a doctoral student at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson taught a spring semester honors course, \u201cFrom Farm to #FoodPorn,\u201d in which. \u201cStudents analyze historical and current issues related to the rise of agriculture, farming, the industrial food system, poverty and hunger as politics, gastrodiplomacy and in the final section, the meal gaze and cooking and dining as performance and spectacle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Students had that \u201cFarm to #FoodPorn\u201d experience when they helped cook a whole hog from a local farm just like people in Appalachia have been doing for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson brought in some help from Alabama. Dr. Darrin Griffin, interim chair of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama, and Joe Wright, an expert arborist and pit master (in that order). Johnson, Griffin and Wright spent the night on Chamberlain Field tending to the coals and cooking a whole host of meats.<\/p>\n<p>Between the water smoker, offset smoker, and whole hog cooker, they smoked brisket, pork ribs, beef ribs, Conecuh sausages (an Alabama staple), whole chickens and one beautiful pig. Their most impressive cooking instrument was the cinderblock roaster they fashioned in a quick 45 minutes. They also had help from students in Johnson\u2019s class\u2014who were willing to brave torrents of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was not on their side and made it a constant struggle to maintain the temperature on the pig cooker while the rain beat down on the metal cover, but the team powered through. Johnson, Griffin and Wright said they got maybe two hours of sleep in their nearby tents before they prepared to serve a horde of hungry people the next day.<\/p>\n<p>There were no complaints from the three cooks even through a restless night. They call this hard work and cookery a fun time. Griffin is no stranger to teaching through food. As a communications professor at the University of Alabama, he has weaved his passion for barbecue into a few of his classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve taught a barbecue communication class twice at the University of Alabama, both were travel courses. One of them was seven states in the U.S., and for the most recent class, we did an Alabama barbecue tour,\u201d said Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>Both Johnson and Griffin brought a lot of academic know how to the cookout. Johnson is published in the collegiate barbecue space with his book, \u201cAn Irresistible History of Alabama Barbecue: From Wood Pit to White Sauce.\u201d Wright brought his more practical knowledge to the event. Griffin said that he invited Wright along because he is \u201cthe kind of person that can do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chef Kenyatta Ashford, who won an episode of the TV show \u201cChopped,\u201d catered the side dishes, and they were on par with the meat.<\/p>\n<p>The event left people with smiling faces, full bellies, and a bit more knowledge. Dr. Brooke Persons, director of the Jeffrey L. Brown Institute of Archaeology at UTC, ran a table at the event to share the anthropological perspective on food and its place in our culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs archaeologists, we are interested in how people eat, how they sustain themselves and how that changes over time,\u201d said Persons. She brought all sorts of artifacts like tools for agriculture and hunting and various animal bones. As she put it, she brought her own pig to the party, although the dusty jawbones and kneecaps were less appetizing than the hot meal.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is hoping this is the first of many UTC Porkoramas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of hickory smoke and slow-cooked hog hung over campus last weekend as students, faculty and family gathered for the first University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Porkorama. 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