Bacon

Celebrate the sizzling sensation of bacon! For breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and even cocktails, bacon is the most versatile of foods and improves everything it meets. In this colorful volume, professional chefs and butchers offer tips about today’s various forms of artisanal and heritage varieties. Presenting more than 45 recipes, from the perfect BLT and bacon mac and cheese to bacon-studded biscuit cinnamon rolls, bacon blondies, bacon and kale bread pudding, and a bacon Snickers milkshake, this book offer cooks endless ideas for all three meals of the day, as well as inspiration for cocktails, late-night snacks, desserts, salads, side dishes, soups, and stews. Also included are tips for choosing the best sources for bacon and making bacon from pork belly, curing with salt, and smoking with various types of wood, as well as the best ways to prepare bacon.