Recent news from the Bacon Nation…
- This week seems to be all about contests or events involving bacon. The biggest event of the week was the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Bacon Pants reported live from the event.
- Yesterday there was a bacon eating contest at Atwood’s Tavern in Boston.
- It’s time to do a monthly check-in to see how things are going with the 2008 Bacon Challenge. Not surprisingly, the field of serious competitors is starting to narrow.
- Two new websites entered the world of bacon blogging recently. Check out Skulls and Bacon and Theories of Bacon. The more, the merrier!
- On the recipe front, the most popular bacon recipe on the Interweb this past week was definitely Bacon Cups from Not Martha. I had several readers email me about this one!
- A reader brought a recipe for Bacon and Marcona Almond Maple Syrup Brittle to my attention. There are so many good things about the title of this recipe that I don’t know where to start with commentary, so I’ll just let it speak for itself.
- Here’s a link to recipes for pork-based martinis: Chinese sweet dried pork martini, ground pork martini, Italian sausage martini, and Spam martini. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.