My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with more bacon news, a bacon crime update, and dining at The Blue with bacon from guess where ? BACON STILL ON THE UPSWING . Good article from the Washington Post on the trends in bacon and why restaurants are putting it back on the menu. Of course, we've all seen the new Little Caesar's bacon wrapped pizza. A cool idea but I'm not sure I'll try it.  The article has some interesting observations, including that fact that while many pundits have been saying that the bacon craze is over, the facts point in the opposite direction.  Here's a chart from the article showing bacon purchases still on the rise.  Good thing the porcine virus has been solved and we have more supply in the market! BACON CRIME UPDATE  The woman against whom charges have been dropped last week has gone missing!! According to her family, Lindsay McNamara was last seen in the company of an unknown woman outside a PF Changs in Natick, MA. Articl...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues, with visit to Kohler, Wisconsin and The American Club; and after a 10-day cure, I smoked, and then cooked homemade bacon. WE WERE AT THE AMERICAN CLUB last weekend, as a pre-Valentine's Day get-away. Highly recommended, wonderful place.  We're going to increase our frequency from one time a year to two. On Saturday, after a day of hiking in the state park with snow shoes, we had dinner at The Immigrant, an absolutely wonderful restaurant at The American Club . Starter: a bacon-vermouth infused mousse of salmon with shrimp.  Simply awesome; pic below. We had a fantastic brunch in the Wisconsin room before leaving.  Get a load of the featured martini!  Unfortunately, I wasn't drinking that morning, or I certainly would've imbibed. A BACON CRIME UPDATE :  Remember that woman who threw bacon at the police?  I wrote about her a couple of posts ago.  Well it turns out that the judge has DROPPED C...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a full pork belly from Inovasi in Lake Bluff, and some bacon news! AND OF COURSE SOME BACON CRIME .  Looks like a few kids set up camp in someone's house when they were away.  What were they doing?  Cooking bacon!!   Article here. "The homeowner's mother said when she came to check on the house she knew something was wrong right when she opened the door, smelling something familiar coming from the oven." PRICES DROPPING - FINALLY ! News reports from around the country all say that bacon supply is increasing! Great news; the piggie population is recovering from the porcine virus. Good summary article here from the Huffington Post. ZAGAT CALLS THE "BACON CRAZE" OVER! A good summary of the 2015 Zagat National Dining Trend Survey can be found here ; summary table about bacon and kale below. Nonsense . Last weekend featured the largest bacon 'fest' in the country, in...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with, believe it or not, more bacon crime.  Plus, I finally went off Th eWhole30.com program; had some great bacon from Hofherrs! BACON IN THE NEWS   ANOTHER DASTARDLY CRIME was committed with bacon last year, and the perpetrator has just been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison.  A Portland woman, annoyed by her ex-boyfriend whom she let into the house and who was sleeping on the couch, poured a vat of hot bacon grease on him.  The result was serious – 2 nd and 3 rd degree burns, including skin grafts. Her attorney, Brian Schmonsees, said that she took a plea deal because she was worried about being found guilty of a higher crime and a stronger sentence.  Brian (who I had to look up because I thought the original story was a scam – it’s not) said “I’m not particularly happy about it.  It’s going to put a good woman in prison.”  He said she was in a “disassociative state” when she did it.  Huh?  G...