Kettner Exchange hosts Cochon take-home dinner event via Zoom

A photo of Chef Brian Redzikowski of Kettner Exchange on Oct. 10, 2019.

Chef Brian Redzikowski, who won top prize at the 2019 Grand Cochon culinary event in Chicago, will virtually guide at-home cooks

April 16, 2021 6 AM PT

Brian Redzikowski, the Kettner Exchange chef who won top prize at the 2019 Grand Cochon culinary event in Chicago, will host a take-home Cochon555 dinner event on April 22.

Cochon555 is a national culinary movement to promote and support family-run heritage pork farms in the U.S.

Customers can order a carry-out five-course pork-centric dinner kit for pickup at Kettner between 3-4 p.m. or 4-5 p.m. April 22.

Then at 7 p.m. that evening, they will tune in for a Zoom meeting with Redzikowski, who will show them how to put the finishing touches on their meal and will share information with them on how to support local family farms.

A meal kit for one person is $95 or $175 for two. For menu and instructions, visit cochon555.com/chef-brian-redzikowski/.

Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is a feature writer and critic who specializes in writing dining, theater, opera and human interest stories. She joined The San Diego Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the president and co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in New London, Conn.