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 […]
Dispatches from the Bacon Nation
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 […]