Bacon Slab Cake

Everything in this photo is edible…but it’s not bacon. It’s a groom’s cake made to look like a slab of bacon. (photo by debbiedoescakes via Slashfood and Chili Underground)

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More Pork on a Fork, please

I’ve tried A LOT of different kinds of bacon over the past few years. Most of it has ranged from good to great – because let’s face it, it’s hard to find “bad bacon” – and the better products tend to come from small producers who are focused on quality

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Bacon Chocolate Conan

In case you missed it the other night, here’s the video clip from the episode of The Tonight Show that featured a bacon chocolate bust of Conan O’Brien built by these people (who you can also find on Twitter). The bacon hair really is awesome. Enjoy.

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Only because it’s been awhile…

Sing along! Pork! It’s the meat of kings! It’s made from pig, try it with onion rings. Pork sure goes with everything, cause it’s made from swine, and swine sure tastes fine. Just bring some to the picnic baby, You know you wanna stuff it in my hamper. But please

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"Build your own" Heirloom BLTs in Napa

There certainly is no shortage of bacon-themed festivals this time of year…the latest one to cross my inbox is the Heirloom BLT’s and Wine Event in Napa next weekend. For three days – August 28 thru 30 – the Hill Family Estate will celebrate wine tomatoes and bacon. Coinciding with

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Irish Bacon

I previously wrote about a trip I took to a new pork butcher in Phoenix called The Meat Shop. One of the unique things about this butcher is that they carry Irish bacon.   This form of bacon is not like traditional American bacon made from pork belly – instead

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