Wichita’s Anchor Meat Market needs your vote in this edible art contest
Some artists use watercolors. Others use oil paints.
My favorite artists use a more edible medium.
Lately, charcuterie “boards” have become a culinary thing. They’re big platters of gourmet meats, cheeses, fruits, veggies, olives, nuts and more. Businesses that have developed the ability to assemble those ingredients into edible pieces of art — with Instagram-worthy attention to detail, texture, color balance and drama — are getting lots of attention.
One of those places is Wichita’s Anchor Meat Market at 1113 E. Douglas, and this at 8 this morning, a contest is launching that includes the business on a list of the country’s best board makers. To win the contest, the meat market must accumulate the most “best board” votes between now and Sunday.
The meat market, which is attached to the popular Anchor bar, was invited to participate in the contest, put on by La Quercia, an Iowa-based purveyor of fancy cured meats.
The prize isn’t anything overwhelming — bragging rights and a leg of Acorn Prosciutto. But Naomi Shapiro, a spokeswoman for the Anchor Meat Market, says it would be fun to win. The market has upped its game on its boards lately, and the staff is even creating impressive brunch-sized boards to sell for Mother’s Day.
The board that Anchor Meat Market entered in the contest is an eye-pleasing spread of cured meats, pates, soft and hard cheeses, bread slices, veggies and fruits like blueberries, grapes, star fruit and raspberries. It even features homemade madeleines.
The Anchor Meat Market is up against big-city competitors from places like Austin, Brooklyn, Seattle, Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg, so it can use every vote.
To vote for the Anchor Meat Market, or just to salivate over all the beautiful boards, visit http://greatamericanboardoff.com and click on “vote now.”
This story was originally published May 3, 2019 at 5:01 AM.
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