Come Saturday afternoon, some 2000+ Chicago bacon enthusiasts (including yours truly) will descend upon the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavillion to spend three hours wandering a smokey, salty, porktastic wonderland, featuring bacon-themed dishes by 50 of Chicago’s best restaurants, a bacon booze bar and exhibition hall of purveyors of all things bacon. I’m beyond excited (and [...]

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Check it out – I was interviewed by the Bacon Du Jour blog about my entry for the Chicago Baconfest cook-off. Thanks, Bacon Du Jour! The blog is running interviews of all six contestants, so it’s definitely been interesting getting a peek into the minds of my competitors. I’d be lying if I said I [...]

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Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, I kind of have a thing for bacon. I also love cooking. So naturally, I threw my hat into the ring for this year’s Baconfest Chicago’s Amateur Cooking Contest (sponsored by Nueske’s Bacon). On the line: 2 free tickets and the chance to compete for bragging rights [...]

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It’s stuff like this that makes me think my hipster friends who claim that bacon is “so overdone” might actually be onto something. For that reason alone, this product should be wiped off the face of the earth and never spoken of again.

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Ok, so there were slight problems with packages leaking bacon fat and ruining toasters, but if you ask me, I think they gave up too easily. The last time they tried this, it was 1964. Now it’s 2010 – we can make this bacon crispier, tastier, and less likely to set your kitchen appliances on [...]

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(via That’s nerdalicious!) And here I was thinking that there couldn’t possibly be a way to combine my love for books and bacon without getting grease stains on the pages. Mollie of Wild Olive has created a printable bacon bookmark. Just download the PDF, print on some cardstock and voila! That little face on the [...]

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I love that I live in a world where such a thing as a bacon rose bouquet exists.

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