Making your own bacon at home is easier than you might think, and the results are far superior to anything you can buy at the store. With just a few simple ingredients, a bit of patience, and the ...

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love bacon. (But I also don’t know that many people in general, and if someone I encounter doesn’t like bacon, I usually erase them from my memory with alcohol and ...

You've swooned over butterscotch pots de crème garnished with smoked sea salt, but have you wondered how the salt ended up with that flavor? It's called cold smoking and it's ridiculously easy to do ...

Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn share the techniques of salting, smoking and curing meat in “Charcuterie,” from classic to contemporary recipes. Charcuterie (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005), by Michael ...

Twelve bacons were baked until just crispy and then tasted blind at The Blue Room restaurant in Cambridge, Mass. One of the 12 brands – Ham I Am’s Ozark Trails Bacon – was judged so vastly superior ...