The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
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Jim Gaffigan may not be the funniest comedian on the planet. But he clearly has a special relationship with bacon, making him my soul brother. I would be honored to stand in the brunch buffet line next to this man. (Via dooce.)
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Bacon is the candy of meat!
Not to mention: http://www.baconunwrapped.com/
and of course http://www.gratefulpalate.com/?p=Category_11
And candy should have more bacon in it! I think.
Here’s a recipe for bacon brittle, maybe for late February when our fat stores are, um, lower.
http://www.suntimes.com/recipes/candy/81624,foo-news-cbacon04r.recipe
I disagree with the premise of this link; Jim Gaffigan may be the funniest comedian on the planet.
I think I’ll go have a hot pocket.
@Bruce Andriatch: I agree with Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce. Gaffigan FTW!