Minnesota Public Radio Interview

Nikki Tundel of Minnesota Public Radio recently interviewed me for a story she was doing about bacon. The end result turned out to be pretty entertaining. Click here to read the story and you can also listen to the version that aired on the radio yesterday.

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Devils on Horseback

I was in NYC for work last week and finally had the opportunity to eat at the celebrated West Village gastropub, The Spotted Pig. This restaurant has been on my to-do list for over a year now, so I was pretty excited to go.   There were many bacon-blessed items

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Luther Burger

The Bompas & Parr “Luther Burger” at the 2008 Abergavenny Food Festival Fringe in Wales. Hopefully the event had defibrillators on hand.

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Baconnaise

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

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Attention Home Curers!

I have one last request of the Bacon Nation for my book. I am in need of a basic recipe for curing your own bacon at home. I’m looking for something simple that would be easy for anyone with any level of cooking experience to follow. Leave a comment if

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Bacon in my blood

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

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Alinea, the book

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.

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