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Caramelized Bacon at Brick 29

I spent the first 18 years of my life in a sagebrush desert town called Nampa in Southwest Idaho. Like many towns in the West, Nampa has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 15 years. Today, Nampa’s population is over 80,000, up from 40,000 residents just a couple decades ago. […]

Bacon in a glass

Pinot Noir wines often have a bold, smoky flavor that complements bacon quite nicely. Earlier this evening, I had a glass of Pinot Noir at Vidalia in Washington, DC that is probably the most bacon-y Pinot I’ve ever tasted. The 2005 Hunterdon Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands has a distinctly […]

BLT on a Stick

Today’s recipe on The Bacon Show is BLT on a Stick. At last year’s Iowa State Fair, I experienced a lot of things on a stick, but definitely no BLT. Someone needs to get on that! Attendance at the fair would almost certainly double in size!

A technical approach to cooking bacon

Cooking for Engineers did an experiment back in 2004/2005 that involved cooking bacon a variety of ways to determine which method produces the best bacon. It was a two part series – you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Methods tested include broiling, frying, microwaving, microwaving with […]

Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot

In honor of the patron saint of swine, today I am feasting on bacon as part of every meal.   So far I’ve had a bacon, egg and cheese bagel from the cafe in my office building for breakfast, and for lunch I had spaghetti carbonara from Corner Bakery.   […]

There’s a new bacon blogger in town

Going Whole Hog is a new blog covering all things pork from the other side of the pond in Italy and France. Bloggers Kate and Diva are cooking their way through Fergus Henderson’s Nose to Tail cookbook.   More importantly, they have brought to my attention that tomorrow, January 17, […]