Jen T. (SHOUT OUT) my TDB “correspondent” in Chicago and all around Hostess-With-The-Mostess just sent me this link to YELP! Chicago where this week the discussion is all about bacon and it’s new role as food superstar in everything we crave, including sweets.

Whether you fry, wrap, stuff, slice, chop or sprinkle it, bacon is indeed heavenly. But no longer is this candy of meats content to merely accompany boring ‘ol eggs on a breakfast plate – bacon has taken on new challenges and is forging unchartered porky frontiers.

So plan on visiting Chi-Town anytime soon, check out the conversation on where to go get your swine on!  Living in Chicago, join the conversation and help point the rest of us to your favorite bacon haunts!

Haven’t heard of Yelp!?  Where you should check it out.  It’s a site all about connecting people to local businesses. And yes there is a Yelp! Detroit…I checked

Candied Bacon???  YES!  Candied Bacon!

Over the last week I have seen a literal flood of posts about this on the Googleverse.  My favorite post is below, from the Rookie Cookie blog:

Candied Bacon:

There isn’t really a recipe for candied bacon. All you need is brown sugar and bacon. The only real catch is that this has to be made in the oven. The bacon needs to stay flat in order for the brown sugar to melt and get all sticky delicious.

photo via Rookie Cookie blog

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My little brother (I call him that because 1) he is my male sibling B) he is literally smaller than me and 3) he is younger than me) is currently finishing a two month stint working in Russia.  He sent me a nice email on Sunday wishing me a Happy Father’s Day AND took the time to file this report for TDB:

Hey Mike! Everything is fine here. I attached some pics of Russian Bacon for your blog. Hopefully you can use them. It’s a traditional bacon, no spices, no smoky flavor, and no maple syrup flavor. Just little meat and a lot of very, very salty fat. It’s still good. The locals like to eat it raw. I can’t watch them when they do that, it just freaks me out. I’ve tried to tell them that they will get butt worms if they eat it raw, but they just dont care…

So there you go.  Streaky bacon in Russia is not smoked, just heavily salt cured with a high fat content and if you are not careful Russian people, it will give you butt worms if you continue to eat your pork raw.

Beware the butt worms…beware!