From the monthly archives: February 2009

Yesterday morning Marshall Porter, a founder of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, and I were on the Morning Moose radio show. We talked about the event and gave way two tickets. You can listen to the interview below.

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After the interview Sean and I took a trip out [...]

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The Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival and I were featured on WHOtv in Des Monies during the 10 o’clock News. They talked about the amazing bacon dinner and documentary Sean and I are filming. Check out the video below.

My favorite quote from the video is from [...]

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We (Sean, Beth, and I) are officially on our way to the 2nd Annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Monies Iowa. It will be a 12 hour drive from Pittsburgh, and I plan to document the drive down. That way I have something to post for Wednesday.

At this years event, [...]

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Last year I told you about a video I found that featured Chicken Fried Bacon. Well last month I found out a local Pittsburgh restaurant, the Harris Grill, had it on the menu.

Chicken-Fried Bacon
With Sawmill Gravy. We know it will take some courage to try this, but you’ll [...]

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The Ultimate BLT Recipe

On February 17, 2009 By

A few months ago I created the Ultimate BLT in my kitchen. I took seven strips of bacon and wove them together in to a square. I then cooked the woven bacon in a large pan until it was crispy. I think if I would have baked the bacon, it would have made things [...]

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I’ll admit it. Being blind must suck, but it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

More and more products are coming out with touch screens. That might be fine and dandy for me and you, but blind people are being left behind.

Stevie Wonder went to the world’s biggest gadget fair, [...]

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There are a lot of people out there that say too much bacon isn’t good for your health. They say it causes heart disease, high cholesterol, and even cancer. With that being said it brings up the age old question. How does one eat large amounts of bacon every day and live past 35? [...]

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Sean Brett is the Funny One

On February 12, 2009 By

I just realized that I never introduced you guys to Sean Brett. I have known him for over 8 years and he was even my roommate at one time. When I was thinking about adding new writers to this site, he was one of the first people I asked. I knew he would be [...]

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Since the Steelers won the Super bowl I forgot to post last weeks show notes, so this week I am posting both at the same time. You may also notice that I changed the name of the show to Bacon Live. I thought since we also do a video of the show now [...]

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The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the topic of bacon is all anyone can talk about online. And it’s all because of the Bacon Explosion.

We have talked about the Bacon Explosion on this site a few times in the last couple weeks, but the originator is bbqaddicts.com. They posted [...]

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