Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon

$29.95

Take a trip to Camp Bacon with James Beard award-winner Ari Weinzweig as he guides you on a personal tour of bacon’s long and curious history, and brings you right to the smokehouse door of some of his favorite bacon curers in the U.S. “Bacon is so integral to the culinary history of this country. The roots are so deep in our cooking, I think of it as the olive oil of North America.”

“Some books whet a thirst for knowledge. This one stirs a gnawing hunger for meat and makes the case for pigging out. Folksy writing, food lore, trivia, and 42 recipes, combine for 240 pages of engaging reading … Weinzweig’s ode to bacon offers an explanation for the term ‘bringing home the bacon,’ and provides a bacon glossary that defines rasher, pancetta, and Canadian Peameal Bacon, among others.” Rebecca Powers, Hour Detroit Magazine

And that history is often a strange one. You’ll learn about how bacon was used to promote matrimonial harmony in medieval England, and you’ll meet Andre Williams, one of the country’s most colorful blues singers and a big bacon lover. You’ll also meet celebrated bacon makers from Wisconsin to Kentucky to Connecticut and learn not only what makes their bacons so full of flavor, but also, just as importantly, what makes one bacon different from the next. The book includes over 42 recipes so you can put your newfound bacon expertise to use in the kitchen right away!

Printed, bound, and warehoused locally, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.