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Philly Homegrown Joining Forces With Quest Loves Food At The June 28 Food Trust Night Market

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

The next Food Trust Night Market is quickly approaching — June 28th at Washington Avenue and the Italian Market. And we have some pretty cool news to announce about it.

Quest Loves Food will be headlining the VIP Night Market Experience brought to you by Philly Homegrown and our sister campaign, With Art Philadelphia™. (Quest Loves Food is the food venture from Questlove, drummer extraordinaire for The Roots and culinary gourmand.) What does the Quest Loves Food Pop-up at Night Market mean? Well, for one it means that Quest Loves Food will be in charge of the food and music inside the Night Market’s Pop-Up VIP Tent.

The VIP Tent will not only have food and music curated by Questlove, it will also have unique cocktails from Farmers’ Cabinet featuring local liquors from Philadelphia Distilling as well as bottomless beer from Yards Brewing Company.

Philly Homegrown and With Art Philadelphia™ are teaming up to also outfit the VIP tent with incredible local art.

And, of course, the much-talked-about but harder-to-find “Love’s Drumsticks,” the signature dish of Quest Loves Food, a gourmet piece of Creole-seasoned, buttermilk fried chicken, sourced locally from Lancaster County, will also be available. However, the only place to get the ‘Love’s Drumstick’ is in the Quest Loves Food Pop-Up tent.

VIP tickets are $55 (or a $75 PLUS ticket to support Night Market with an additional donation) and supplies are very limited. Tickets are on sale now online.

An important note: Night Market Washington Avenue will, of course, still be the Night Market you know and love: free admission and pay-as-you-go street eats with a lot of choices less than $5. The Quest Loves Food Pop-Up is a VIP Experience to help fund future Night Markets, a great investment in our opinion!

Stay tuned for more information about this latest Night Market in the weeks to come.

Quest Loves Food Pop-Up at Night Market
When: Thursday, June 28, 6-10 p.m.
Where: Washington Avenue at Ninth Street
Cost: Pay as you go; $55 for VIP admission
More info: www.nightmarketphilly.org

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Questlove To Take On Momofuku’s David Chang In An Epic Fried Chicken Battle On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Thusday April 12th

Monday, April 9th, 2012


So, you remember that Questlove of The Roots makes fried chicken now? It’s good. Bon Appétit included it on the magazine’s list of the “25 Things to Eat, Drink and Cook in 2012.”

Well, Questlove knows David Chang, the chef behind New York’s Momofuku restaurants, who also happens to make a pretty legendary fried chicken. (It has its own FAQ section…)

And Chang recently took to Twitter to challenge Questlove to a fried chicken battle on Questlove’s show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Questlove happily accepted.

The stakes are high: if Questlove wins, he’ll get a spread in Chang’s magazine, Lucky Peach, and his “Love Drumstick” will be served at Chang’s restaurant, Momofuku. If Chang wins, Questlove will have to wear a chicken suit on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

There may be a panel of celebrity judges involved.

As for the chicken itself, Questlove serves “drumsticks,” naturally, gourmet pieces of Creole-seasoned, buttermilk fried chicken, sourced locally from Lancaster County. Momofuku has two varieties of whole fried chickens: southern-style and Korean-style. The southern-style chicken is fried with a buttermilk and old bay batter. The Korean-style is triple-fried and served with a light spicy glaze.

The battle is set for this Thursday, April 12. Late Night comes on at 12:35.

No idea how it’s going to turn out. But it should be fun to watch.

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Save The Date: Night Market #4 Slated For Chinatown, Oct. 6th

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

The Night Markets just keep getting better and better; the most recent Night Market installment took place in Mt. Airy in August and it was amazing.

This is something you won’t want to miss: the next Night Market, the super popular roving outdoor evening food bazaar, is destined for Chinatown, Thursday, October 6 from 7-11 p.m.

One of Philadelphia’s most vibrant and eclectic culinary hotbeds is getting much-deserved limelight for the fourth installment of the Night Market series that began on East Passunk in South Philly back in October 2010 and continued to increased acclaim in University City and Mt. Airy.

This edition will feature food trucks you’ve never seen before and Asian foods you’ve never tasted before, plus live music, lion dancing and Asian arts.

Quest Loves Food

AND it will feature the public debut of Questlove’s food project, titled Quest Loves Food. For this edition of the Night Market, Questlove is partnering with Philly Homegrown to debut his signature dish, “The ? Drumstick” — a gourmet piece of fried chicken (the drumstick naturally), made with locally sourced Lancaster County chicken and bursting with Creole flavoring.

Since the dish will no longer be debuting at this weekend’s Popped! Festival, Night Market attendees will be some of the first in the world with the opportunity to saver Questlove’s take on fried chicken. Proceeds from “The ? Drumstick” will benefit The Food Trust.

And be sure to look out for the Philly Homegrown photo booth where you can strike a pose with your favorite local food props!

Check out all uwishunu’s previous coverage on the Night Markets here, and stay tuned for more details.

Night Market #4: Chinatown
When: Thursday, October 6, 7-11 p.m.
Where: 10th and Race Streets
Cost: Pay as you go
More info: www.nightmarketphilly.org

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