"If Something Doesn't Taste Good, We Put Bacon on It."

[beamjockey]

In today's Chicago Sun-Times, ace food journalist Leah A. Zeldes meets all your bacon needs. She examines trendy bacon cookbooks, lists bacon-oriented blogs, offers bacon recipes, and compiles a glossary of baconspeak.

I tasted her Bacon Brittle. It was delicious.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

As mamatiger says, "Bacon, the crack cocaine of breakfast meats!"

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

How long as Leah been writing for them? And about bacon?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

For a couple years, maybe, she's been freelancing for various markets, the Sun-Times and Daily Herald among them. Search on Leah A. Zeldes to see some of her writings.

And then there's Pig Candy . . .

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Cover bacon strips thickly with a mixture of brown sugar and finely chopped pecans. Bake until the bacon is cooked and the sugar melted. Cool.

Re: And then there's Pig Candy . . .

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Okay ... that's the whole set of instructions? Gotta try this thing ...

Re: And then there's Pig Candy . . .

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, thanks, I looked it up! Recipe for Bacon Brittle is now over on my LJ, for the convenience and edification of all ....

Re: And then there's Pig Candy . . .

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Well, cool!

However, that is *not* Pig Candy. I got Pig Candy from the Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (I believe; it's one of the Sweet Potato Queen book). They are high-lariously funny unless you're a prig, and full of really naughty good things to eat.

Bacon

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer.

B

Re: Bacon

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I thought you might be interested!

Nothing in there about Bacon Dispensers, though.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I refer you to this comic:
http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2006/06/07/knig/story.gif
"Bacon is the only meat I've ever seen break a vegatarian down... Bacon truly is 'the marijuana of meats'"

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

MMMMM, Bacon.

DOGS CAN'T READ!!!!!

To each his own.

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Bacon Brittle (goes off to retch...)
I used to love bacon until...
I had to eat Jowl bacon because we were too poor for the good stuff when I was young.
Then as a young adult I would cook 2-3 lbs. of bacon at a time for my ex. and he would consume it all in one sitting.
And now I'm a vegetarian and the idea just grosses me out...
But now that veggie bacon stuff is pretty good.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

A lot of poormans cooking is way mo betta when bacon is in it. Um, it's close to hog killin time too. Makes me taste buds excited.

[marklafon.livejournal.com]

Best bacon is the old fashioned stuff in the smokehouse. Big slabs a few inches thick, cured, smoked and wrapped in cloth. It is hard enough to stop a bullet and has to be sawn, not cut, when you want a hunk for the kitchen. You usually don't fry it (too hard ot cut into thin strips) but chunk it into a pot of green beans for flavor.

And the smokehouse still smells great in August.