Scrappy scrapple celebrated this weekend
Patricia TaloricoPennsylvania might claim scrapple, but Delaware owns it.
Thanks to Bridgeville’s RAPA Scrapple plant which has been incorporated in the town in 1926, the state is the largest scrapple producer in the world.
The 26th annual Apple-Scrapple Festival begins Friday and runs all-day Saturday.
The festival celebrates the under-appreciated breakfast meat that's made with pig parts and cornmeal (fry it crisp, please), as well as apples, another important Bridgeville industry.
Apples in the area are grown by T.S. Smith and Sons, an 800 acre family-owned farm that was founded in 1907.
Festivities begin at 4 p.m. Friday with a carnival, food court and street dance, and continue on Saturday with an “all you can eat” scrapple breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m.
Other activities include scrapple chunkin’ and scrapple carving, along with a variety of food. Visit www.applescrapple.com for more information.
Scrapple also gets an in-depth study on Sunday at Grain Craft Bar + Kitchen in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
The 108 W. State St. eatery is hosting a brunch, conversation, book signing and cooking demonstration with Philadelphia food writer Amy Strauss, author of the new book “Pennsylvania Scrapple: A Delectable History.”
Strauss’s book traces the history and culture of scrapple from its origination by German settlers of Pennsylvania to the breakfast meat’s resurgence amongst a new generation of chefs.
Grain’s Executive Chef Jim Berman plans to make a scrapple-mushroom dish during a demonstration in the restaurant’s glass-enclosed dining area, known as 410@Grain.
The Sunday brunch, held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., includes several scrapple dishes. It will also feature related beverages by Dogfish Head Brewery. The Milton beer maker produces a scrapple-infused brew known as Beer for Breakfast.
No reservations will be accepted, and all ages are welcome. Call (610) 444-7232 or visit meetatgrain.com
Contact Patricia Talorico at (302) 324-2861 or ptalorico@delawareonline.com and on Twitter @pattytalorico