Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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2008: Year Of The Bacon

Posted Jan 10, 2008 by Jeff Houck

Updated Jan 11, 2008 at 04:43 PM

Few people know this, but the pig we know and love today came to North America through Tampa Bay. Yes, we have Hernando DeSoto to thank for dragging his porkers across the Atlantic Ocean so we could enjoy the crispy goodness of Porky with our breakfasts, BLTs and spinich salads.

That being said, this blog is going on record to declare 2008 as the Year of The Bacon. There will be no discussion of its merits. They stand on their own. Hell, we may even drag it into 2009, if the need becomes acute.

Toward celebrating that declaration, we’ll provide ongoing coverage of the year’s most culturally significant bacon events and trends.

With that goal in mind, we must heartily endorse this blog’s attempt to create a deep-fried bacon patty from one pound of bacon.

The fried jalapenos and Shiner Bock served with the dish were a nice touch, if a bit superfluous. Bacon stands just fine on it’s own. (Hat tip to Tony Fatso.)

He also sent along this link to a model house a few guys made using sausage links and strips of bacon.

Frank Lloyd Wright, eat your heart out.

We always love it when food crosses into new mediums. Like cross-stitching.

This pattern, which we saw at Boing Boing, is courtesy of Sublime Stitching:

Yes, that’s right. It declares bacon as “the candy of meats.” Truer words were never spoken.

Not enough pork for ya? Dig this how-it’s-made video. It’s a vegetarian nightmare: