Over a year ago I read an article in a magazine about bacon wrapped tater tots at the High Life Lounge in Des Moines, Iowa. Then I experimented with making my own version of bacon wrapped tater tots using wild boar bacon. The blog entry I wrote about it is […]
Dispatches from the Bacon Nation
Bacon Nation Unwrapped: Bringing Sexy Back
Recent news from the Bacon Nation… In her new book Sex and Bacon, former sex worker Sarah Katherine Lewis considers why she loves things that are bad for her. Click here to read her interview with the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Target is promoting the Best Meat Ever with its Bacon […]
World Pork Expo
Part of the reason I timed my cross country drive to happen this time of year was so I could attend the annual meeting of pork producers and lovers that is the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. I chose last Friday afternoon to wander around this event that […]
Road Weary
Tony and I drove from St. Cloud, MN to Bozeman, MT yesterday (that’s close to 1000 miles for those of you not familiar with flyover country). Needless to say, we’re a bit exhausted today. So we’ll be back tomorrow with another trip update. In the meantime, we’re going to stop […]
Crispy on the Outside Podcast
When I was in St. Louis last week, I spent 30 minutes on the phone with the guys from Crispy on the Outside recording a podcast about my cross-country trip, and generally all things bacon. Click here to listen to the interview. Enjoy!
Burger’s Smokehouse
Last Thursday I started the morning in St. Louis, Missouri and by noon I had driven to California. California, Missouri, that is. The Missouri version of California has just over 4000 residents – much smaller than the state by the same name. But what they lack in population […]
Swiss Meats
Last Thursday, I spent part of the day at one of my favorite bacon producing companies in the United States. Swiss Meats is located in the small town of Hermann, Missouri, which is about 80 miles west of St. Louis. The surrounding scenery is quite beautiful – rolling green hills […]
My Bacon Mini Bar
Today my “Bacon Across America” adventure took me to Broadbent Country Hams in Kuttawa, Kentucky. Broadbent Hams was founded in 1909 by the Broadbent family in Western Kentucky. In 1999, Ronny and Beth Drennan purchased the business from the Broadbent family. The Drennan’s recently moved the business to a […]
1095 Days of Bacon
Today is the third anniversary of Bacon Unwrapped. Yep, that’s right – I’ve been sharing my bacon obsession with the interweb for three years. I’ve written almost 500 entries. I’ve eaten A LOT of bacon and I am still miraculously Lipitor-free. So what better way to celebrate this event than […]