Zingerman’s 4th Annual Camp Bacon is coming soon and to help get everyone prepared, we’re sharing tasty excerpts and recipes from Ari’s book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.  Apple (or Pear) Bacon Crisp Strange as it sounds to some, bacon really can beget a fine dessert. As someone at the Zingeman’s Roadhouse said when we had this [...]

Zingerman’s 4th Annual Camp Bacon is coming soon and to help get everyone prepared, we’re sharing tasty excerpts and recipes from Ari’s book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.  Pasta alla Gricia The background on this dish is provided in the section on guanciale (see page 118), so all I’ll say here is that it’s a really great [...]

Zingerman’s 4th Annual Camp Bacon is coming soon and to help get everyone prepared, we’re sharing tasty excerpts and recipes from Ari’s book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.  North Carolina Fish Muddle “Bacon makes the soup” —Provençal saying I’m not sure how I first heard of this dish, but it has become one of my favorite ways [...]

Zingerman’s 4th Annual Camp Bacon is coming soon and to help get everyone prepared, we’re sharing tasty excerpts and recipes from Ari’s book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.  Irish Bacon and Cabbage As you’ve already learned, in Ireland it’s far more typical to cook bacon with cabbage than corned beef. I’d serve the dish with a little [...]

Zingerman’s 4th Annual Camp Bacon is coming soon and to help get everyone prepared, we’re sharing tasty excerpts and recipes from Ari’s book, Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.  Emma Dencklau’s Iowa German Potato Salad This recipe first came up courtesy of historian and long-time Zingerman’s customer Leo Landis, whom I met many years ago when he was working [...]