Bacon safari

This is a couple years old, but I just stumbled upon a great article over on the Food & Wine Magazine website about a trip that Grateful Palate owner Dan “Captain Bacon” Philips and Details Senior Editor Pete Wells took through Kentucky and Tennessee to explore some of the best

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Ich liebe spaetzle

In addition to bacon, one of my other favorite foods is spaetzle. As weird as that may seem, I love those little dumplings and got hooked on them while I was an exchange student in Germany in high school.   Yesterday a friend and I stopped for drinks at Trader

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Subliminal

I recently realized that some art hanging in the hallway at the firm where I work has a striking resemblance to something very familiar.

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Asparagus Mimosa

When the headline “Asparagus Mimosa” arrived in my RSS reader as a news item earlier today, all I saw initially was the headline. Before I clicked on the story to find out what an Asparagus Mimosa actually was, the vision (and smell) of pureed asparagus mixed with champagne popped into

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Pigs Rule

I’m really tired of seeing the California cheese TV commercials that imply a pig would be happier if it were a cow. They’re complete bulls**t (pun totally intended). Click here to view the commercial.

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Equinox Bacon

Last weekend, three of my friends and I took a cooking class with Chef Todd Gray of Equinox Restaurant in Washington, DC.   We had two requests for ingredients to be used during the class – risotto and, of course, bacon.   The way the class works is that the

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Bacon Brownies

I have a brownie recipe that I’ve been making since I was in grade school – it is a recipe I used for a 4-H project at one point, and that my mom and I have played with and perfected over the years. So tonight I decided to take it

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Bake-On Bacon

Earlier today, I stumbled across this website for a meat wholesaler in Australia called Gotzinger Smallgoods. One of their products is Bake-On Bacon, for which the target customer is apparently the restaurant industry. Bake-On Bacon comes already layered on a tray and ready to stick in the oven – thus

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Sonic made my day

I’m in Phoenix for the weekend and yesterday I went to Sonic for lunch. As I was pulling through the drive-thru, I encountered a very cheery young man taking orders over the intercom. I ordered my usual #1 with both mustard and mayo (and tots, of course). He asked if

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