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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
Alarmism over cancer risk from consuming bacon is a bunch of baloney
Read the story at TCSDaily.com: Science in the Media Sausage Grinder
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
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