Getting a bit jaded by election politics? Ready for a fresh perspective? Like history, love to laugh, appreciate good food? This article is for you! Adrian Miller will be presenting at this year’s 7th Annual Camp Bacon®. His subject: “Pork: The Perennial Dark Horse Presidential Candidate.” I’m forecasting it will help put some of those […]

The authentic Jewish answer to bacon? The first time I went to Montréal, many years ago, I was somewhat shocked to discover that corned beef and pastrami were almost nonexistent on deli menus. The cornerstones of American deli eating were pretty much persona non grata. When corned beef or pastrami did show up on menus […]

I first met Mark Essig while I was speaking in Asheville. I’d done some ZingTrain work for our long-time client Laurey Masterton, who sadly passed away a few years ago. We still miss her. Laurey had arranged on that trip for me to do a dinner around the then recently released Zingerman’s Guide to Better […]

For me, one of the beauties of Ann Arbor is the plethora of powerfully interesting, creative, cool people we have here in town. Many I get to work with, others we buy from, and still others we get to cook for. Fidel Galano is one of the latter. I first met him fifteen years or […]

Take home a piece of bacon art!

Ari talks to Nueske’s Smokemaster, Mike Zaromski.