A smoky, salty, savory cure (Star Tribune)
"Bacon's taste is like no other," writes Joanne Pruess in her beautifully (if a bit redundantly) titled book "Seduced by Bacon." She later adds, "[Even] people who don't eat bacon for religious reasons think lusty thoughts about it."
Off with this infidel's head. She just insulted 1 billion Muslims, think of the riots this will cause.
What is it about cured, smoked pork belly that evokes such passion?
Brain damage, psychological disorders, sexual fetishism? I don't know---what?
For starters, it tickles the tastebuds with an improbable amalgam of sensations: smoky, salty, sweet and savory, with nutty and woody elements as well.
I suppose if you have the tongue of a snake. My palate isn't that complex.
I like bacon if it's limp and greasy. If it's cooked to the point where it crumbles into dust, forget it.
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I like thick bacon that's not got a lot of fat that's more just made of meat - mmmmm good
I've always enjoyed Roy Blount, Jr's food poems, such as this one:
Song to Bacon
Consumer groups have gone and taken
Some of the savor out of bacon.
Protein–per–penny in bacon, they say,
Equals needles–per–square–inch of hay.
Well, I know, after cooking all
That’s left to eat is mighty small
(You also get a lot of lossage
In life, romance, and country sausage),
And I will vote for making it cheaper,
Wider, longer, leaner, deeper,
But let’s not throw the baby, please,
Out with the (visual rhyme here) grease.
There’s nothing crumbles like bacon still,
And I don’t think there ever will
Be anything, whate’er you use
For meat, that chews like bacon chews.
And also: I wish these groups would tell
Me whether they counted in the smell.
The smell of it cooking’s worth $2.1O a pound.
And howbout the sound?
And how about these excerpts from his "Hymn to Ham"?
Though Ham was one of Noah’s sons
(Like Japheth), I can’t see
That Ham meant any more to him
Than ham has meant to me. ...
...
Ham’s substantial, ham is fat,
Ham is firm and sound.
Ham’s what God was getting at
When he made pigs so round.
love bacon, all ways, thick and droopy, thin and crispy. i've cooked and eaten lbs of it at one sitting for diiner.
but, i draw the line at 'maple wood' apple smoked, etc... types of sweet bacon
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