Yes indeed, it's Memorial Day Weekend, and that can only mean one thing: Barbecue! And while the local weather appears to be less than cooperative today, I fully intend to wrap some steak and shrimp and chicken in bacon and…
You gotta love The New Yorker. Wry, urbane, and recently under attack for some controversial cover art. You know what? It's not going to make me stop reading. Not when the latest edition features the Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers that would…
Way back in aught-nine, I came across an impressive piece of artwork, but could not discover its meaning. Was it the logo for a new band? A bacon-themed apparel company? A sea-faring crew of pork consumers? Today the mystery was…
Our regular readers may not know it, but the Royal Bacon Society has an unspoken mission to provide substance to the lives of Bruces everywhere. Well, not really. But we've inadvertantly done so in one case by keeping my good…
So you're all familiar with my experiments in making Bacon Bourbon. I did it a few times and although it was alright, it wasn't exactly addicting. Although I never did make a bacon maple Manhattan, which is still on my…
Considered by some to be the first scientist, Roger Bacon was a Franciscan friar and English philosopher known for his emphasis on empirical research and experimentation. Bacon studied at Oxford at the tender age of 13, and later became an…