Month: October 2008

The Bacon Salt boys continue to press forward with their all important mission to make everything in the world taste like bacon. Their new product, Baconnaise, is available starting this week. Now you can enjoy double the bacon flavor on your BLT – and like Bacon Salt, Baconnaise has the […]

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a genealogy research project for my family. One of my priorities has been to collect as many stories as possible from my grandparents’ generation before everyone disappears.   My great great grandparents immigrated to Idaho from Germany in the late 1800s, drawn […]

Grant Achatz’s new book about his Chicago restaurant, Alinea, arrived in the mail this past week. It’s beautiful. Go buy it. Enjoy the trapeze bacon.

Everything about writing a book for the first time is a learning process.   And I fully admit I was in no way prepared for how much of my mental energy the process would consume, especially when trying to balance the book with my day job…you know, the one that […]

So wrong, yet so very, very right…   Courtesy of A Hamburger Today and The Stranger Slog in Seattle (hat tip to Bill B!). Lots of props on this glorious one!

Over the last year, I’ve read in numerous places – namely pork industry marketing materials – that jalapeno bacon is all the rage these days and is one reason why bacon has recently seen an increase in popularity.   However, I’ve been skeptical of this claim, largely because I haven’t […]

Maple Bar Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog Originally uploaded by TypeFiend This is the most awesome photo I’ve ever encountered while wasting time browsing photos on Flickr – a bacon wrapped hot dog stuffed inside a maple bar bun. Amen.

You know what you need to do.