BACON IN THE NEWS.
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS WHINING about bacon. OK, I get it, there's a certain fad element to people who love bacon. It's a cool, current thing to talk and write about. There's been an explosion of bacon products in the market - both edible and inedible. It's all good fun. But this guy is taking it too far. He says "I don't get it." His article, however has a redeeming quality - it traces the roots of the bacon-maina to two '80's films and the 80's themselves. Now this is a decade that I loved (but not more than today!) My wonderful wife Debbie rolls her eyes when our 14-year-old son Jack and I, listening to XM Radio's "80's on 8" make comments like "that wasn't Hall & Oates best" or rock to "Dream Police." When I have a few minutes, I'm going to do a short video of the two clips the author mentions. The article is very much worth the read.
MEALS MADE WITHOUT BACON ARE A LEADING CAUSE OF DIVORCE, according to this sign, apparently in front of a restaurant that serves bacon-based dishes. It may very well be true. Hey, it's a Huffington Post article, so it MUST be true, right? The slide show below the picture (when you click the above link,) has some very interesting baconalia.
TODAY'S BACON STORY is about two of my favorite gals, at brunch today in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Debbie and I met with Michelle, who has helped our family in so many ways, for brunch. She was meeting her son, who lives nearby, and we were able to connect for a couple of hours.
We ate at a very cool restaurant connected to the Hotel Lincoln, in south Lincold Park. It has 4 1/2 stars. Quality location, quality amenities.
The connected Restaurant is the Perennial Virant, an extremely hip and cool place.
Of course, I had to check out the menu, which appears below, and since it was brunch, discover which bacon they offered. You have to love a place that has "Philosophy" as the first item in its menu bar! The link is a video short, a little granola for my taste, but pretty cool.
Turns out they had a side of bacon from Black Earth Bacon - in Black Earth, Wisconsin (near Madison, Badger Country). The bacon was very flavorful, thick, and full of body. Not exactly crispy, it was somewhat chewy but the flavor was strong and clean. An excellent bacon.
The Black Earth site doesn't seem to offer bacon separately, but you can get it as part of a package...you have to look around for the Red Meat Market (whose tagline is "Local Meat, Local People" - schweet!), and the breakfast pack (#PKG-BFST-110) which I'm going to try out!
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