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MAKIN? BACON: To some a fad, to others an artisanal craft. ?Forget Mickey Rourke and Britney Spear?

By Glenn Reynolds

MAKIN’ BACON: To some a fad, to others an artisanal craft. “Forget Mickey Rourke and Britney Spears. The biggest comeback story in recent years is bacon. Once a staple of American breakfast tables, cured, smoked pork bellies picked up a bad reputation back in the 1980s, amid concerns over saturated fat and cholesterol. Then the tide turned. Some credit low-carb fad diets, others a general backlash against puritanical food fears, but somewhere along the way bacon became cool again. In fact, you could argue that America is now gripped by full-on baconmania.”

Including Bacon Beer. “Either this will be the most amazingly disgusting thing you?ve ever tasted in your life. Or I shall rule the earth.?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).