Have you ever looked through the bacon selection at the grocery store and noticed that while most of the packages are labeled "cured," there are some that are labeled "uncured?" This has always ...

Have you ever looked through the bacon selection at the grocery store and noticed that while most of the packages are labeled "cured," there are some that are labeled "uncured?" This has always ...

Last weekend, on a visit to San Francisco, I witnessed cookbook author and food writer Michael Ruhlman show a roomful of bloggers at the California Culinary Academy how to cure bacon. Yup, at home.

Once you make bacon at home, you’ll never go back to store-bought. With just 3 ingredients and a few days of curing, you can create smoky, savory slices exactly to your taste. Supreme Court cancels ...

FARGO — There are few words more powerful in the food world than bacon - at least, among carnivores. Just saying the word out loud in a crowd can elicit a jumble of excitement, with necks craning and ...

Instructions: Pat the pork belly down with paper towels, removing as much moisture as possible. Mix sugar, kosher salt and pink curing salt in a small bowl. Rub maple syrup on both sides of the pork ...

Michigan chef Brian Polcyn, a professional chef since 1980, said that it took approximately 150 trial runs working with pork belly before his maple smoked bacon recipe was perfected. The recipe was a ...