My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a look at the newsworthy bacon assault, bacon on travel, some other topics, and this week we cook up some OM Selects. BACON IN THE NEWS starts with a bang this week.  Apparently, a young woman (I was going to say 'lady', but what kind of lady would waste a whole pound of bacon) tried to kill her boyfriend by cooking bacon and then leaving the house!  The idea was that the bacon would burn, set the house on fire, and kill the boyfriend.  Looks like the young man " woke up and smelled the bacon " burning, so he didn't die.  Get this: her name is Cameo Crispi.  You can't make this stuff up.  Crispi tries to murder boyfriend with bacon.  Click HERE to read the original article, or just see her picture and quotes below. "A woman named Cameo Crispi tried to set her ex-boyfriend's home on fire by burning a pound of bacon, police have said.   The 31-year-old mother from Uintah County, Utah was arreste...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a recap of the news, and some bacon! BACON IN THE NEWS this week starts off with a blast from the past and just an overall blast of a time .  It turns out that this is the 30th anniversary of Footloose the movie , starring Kevin Bacon.  He celebrates by going on the Tonight Show, and reprises the famous warehouse dance scene.  The absolute best recap of the original scene and his appearance on the Tonight Show can be found HERE .  This falls into the category of MUST SEE VIDEO for anyone over the age of 45 (and great for the younger set too!)  Kevin Bacon is obviously at the peak of his popularity. SOUTH CAROLINA has a new bacon-themed restaurant called "Sizzle".  Located in the suburb called "Five Points", just east of Columbia, this restaurant sounds terrific.  Check out the news article here .  Also, see their T-shirts?  The original "Keep Calm and Carry On" was created by the British ...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a project, born of curiosity.  Which way to cook bacon is best?  I use several methods to cook the same bacon with some interesting results.  Read on; if you're impatient, jump to the bottom! BACON IN THE NEWS continues to fascinate me.    THE OSCAR MAYER PROMOTION   " Wake Up and Smell the Bacon " (click there) continues to get great coverage.  I'm hoping against hope that I get selected as one of the winners of the coveted bacon-scent hardware.  (Photo left) Alas, it appears that the app only works on the iPhone, but I'll 'swipe' my wife's, install the app and the hardware, and we'll wake up to her surprise, to the smell of bacon!  Not like it hasn't happened before in real life. THE HUFFINGTON POST comes through again with a funny article entitled " 9 Ways Floppy Bacon Ruins Everything ". The thesis is that when you add good, crispy bacon to most foods, it inevitably improves...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES with a Oscar Mayer promotion, a new book on bacon, some news, and an All-Wisconsin bacon cook-off.  There is so much bacon news going on I'm going to have to blog more often! OSCAR MAYER COMES THROUGH with a great promotion - an actual smartphone app that produces the sound and smell (YES the smell) of bacon!  "Who knows where that crispy compass will lead you." Wake up and smell the bacon!  You have to enter a contest to get the app and the phone hardware for this.  Thanks to so many of you who have emailed me about this.  Here's a link to the promotion, but you should obviously click the link to the right to watch the phenomenal video.   BACON 24/SEVEN!   There are a lot of books about bacon out there, but here's on that is pretty cool: Bacon 24/SEVEN.  It's written by Theresa Gilliam, the guest in this video.  The video has only 8 views, and was produced just before the Super Bowl.  But if you ...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with another shot at the Bacon Wave, some news, and a baseball connection.  So happy that spring training has started! BACON IN THE NEW S this week includes lots of headlines about the new minor league baseball team - this from the TIME News Feed; very cool.  Thank you to the seven of you (strike that - eight now - thanks, Flip!) who emailed or texted me about this! " Lehigh Valley IronPigs , a minor league baseball team that recently went viral for promoting  urinals with video game systems, has debuted bacon-themed uniforms. The Saturday home game look features bacon strips down the side of the pants, a baseball cap with a strip of bacon across the front, and a brick red jersey with the word “Pigs” underlined by — you guessed it — yet another a strip of bacon. Fans can also purchase a “scratch and sniff” t-shirt with a strip of bacon on it, and the smell lasts for up to 10-15 washes, according to the team...