Ends and Pieces

I recently encountered a pre-packaged product called “bacon ends and pieces” in a rural Idaho grocery store. It’s a product I don’t often see in the “big city” grocery stores I usually frequent, so it got me thinking…what exactly are “ends and pieces?”   A Google search produced this page

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Bourdain is High on the Hog

One reason why I so thoroughly enjoy Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations is because of his love of pork and the fact that he manages to find it in every corner of the world. He also has such an eloquent way of describing his food adventures that leaves you wishing you

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Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin

  With summer winding down, the remaining Bitch and BBQ sessions I have planned for the season are also numbered (mostly because I’m about out of Bitch). This past weekend we had another session. On the menu was bacon wrapped pork loin, corn on the cob, rice, and molten chocolate

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Happy Cutting

I keep forgetting to brag about this, but today I finally remembered. Check out the cutting board I acquired at the farmers’ market in my hometown of Nampa, Idaho a couple weeks ago. It’s so pretty that I almost don’t want to use it.

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Paris is for Pork Lovers

My roommate from college, Macrui, recently got married and moved from DC to Paris for a job with a law firm.   One of the many things she and I have in common is a case of wanderlust. So I was not at all surprised to learn that she and

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