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...spring. First there was the friend with the uncharacteristic dirty fingernails. Then that confident co-worker swept off the elevator, tossed her tresses and suddenly there was a faint whiff of wood smoke in the air. Something's happening here, and as foodie bloggers know, it's all about bacon...
...Maybe it's a recession-driven money saver, or maybe we just feel the need to get back in touch with what we eat, but Americans everywhere are discovering the pleasures of home-cured bacon. Culinary blogs are replete with homemade-bacon recipes, including how to make pancetta. Mario Batali's recipe for guanciale, cured pig cheek, has gone viral. Leading the piggy parade is food writer Michael Ruhlman, who has challenged his blog readers to make a BLT from scratch - including homegrown lettuce and tomatoes and homemade bread - shoot a picture, submit it and win a prize: his latest...
...photographic tribute to bacon on LIFE.com...
...gross out a generation that grew up with the Internet. But Food2.com a website for millennials that launched in May and already has a million unique visitors each month, does a pretty good job. To tout a contest for the best food photography, it showcased a fried-egg-and-bacon burger on a bun made of two doughnuts (above). A recurring segment called "WTFood??!" featured a British supermarket that was selling a Wimbledon special--sausage, strawberries, crème fraîche and mint--that sounded bad even for British food...
...blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He's fed on American corn that was grown with the help of government subsidies and millions of tons of chemical fertilizer. When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he'll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population. And when the rains come, the excess fertilizer that coaxed so much corn from the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River...