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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Bakon Vodka Cocktails
One of the sponsors at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour event earlier this month in Nampa, Idaho was Bakon Vodka. In coordination with the bar staff at Brick 29, a few signature cocktails were created for the event. All of them were really great – some of them in a […]
Bacon Burger Dog
An email about this video of Aaron McCargo making a bacon burger dog has been sitting in my inbox for a couple weeks now. I’m kind of regretting that I didn’t watch this before the July 4th weekend because I may have chosen to prepare this as my dish for […]
Prosciutto di Iowa: A tour of La Quercia
Sky Full of Bacon put together this very nice video tour of La Quercia, the Iowa-based producers of incredibly delicious prosciutto and pancetta. I also had the opportunity to visit La Quercia when I was writing Bacon: A Love Story and they are featured in my book.
Gearing up for Bacon Fest…
Today has been a very bacony day…there was an article in the Arizona Republic about the book signing I did at the Glendale Library this afternoon…Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour was featured on the AZCentral.com homepage for a while…Phoenix New Times posted a write up of Sunday’s Bacon Tour event at […]
You won’t want to miss this bacon eating contest in Phoenix next month!
This just in…there is going to be a bacon eating contest at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour event in Phoenix on June 7! The bacon eating contest was probably the highlight of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines earlier this year, so if you think you’re up for […]
A trip to the Pork Shop redux
I’m posting this again because it got buried in the frenzy of the book launch last week, and it’s just too good to go unnoticed. My friend Dean did an awesome job of producing it and it was a really fun project to work on. —————– A few weeks ago, […]
The Story of Bacon (circa 1965)
I love “old school” informational videos. Here’s one from Hormel about how bacon is made, circa 1965. Incidentally, Hormel contributed a couple quotes to my book, Bacon: A Love Story, and they’ve been supportive of the project. Enjoy. (via Sizzology)
A trip to The Pork Shop
A few weeks ago, I took a trip to The Pork Shop in Queen Creek, Arizona with a couple friends. We were able to peek behind the counter and spend some time talking with owner, Greg Combs, about his delicious craft. I reference The Pork Shop several times in my […]