Michigan chef Brian Polcyn, a professional chef since 1980, said that it took approximately 150 trial runs working with pork belly before his maple smoked bacon recipe was perfected. The recipe was a ...

If you've ever spotted slices of pork belly at the market or perhaps at a Korean barbeque restaurant and mistaken them for bacon, you were not far off. In fact, anatomically, you were right on target ...

For those who prize smoked cured pork belly, making bacon at home might be the finest way to harness its magic. "The thing that's cool about making it yourself, or buying better bacon, is that you can ...

Side bacon is the bacon we are most familiar with. The skin or rind has been removed, and it has been conveniently sliced and packaged. Slab bacon is an uncut cured pork belly. The slab can be cut to ...

I was tempted to call this article “The Girl and the Pig,” because I am hooked on bacon. More specifically, I am hooked on my own home-cured bacon. Prompted by a whole lot of time on my hands thanks ...

I was tempted to call this article “The Girl and the Pig,” because I am hooked on bacon. More specifically, I am hooked on my own home-cured bacon. Prompted by a whole lot of time on my hands thanks ...

Even though it doesn’t take much to master, making bacon is one of the easiest ways to feel like a master chef in the kitchen. You can buy plenty of high-end bacon at grocery stores, but homemade ...

Check your freezer for skinless pork belly. If you have some and are wondering how to cook it best (and how to avoid making a big mistake when cooking with pork belly), wonder no more; we have the ...

I was tempted to call this article “The Girl and the Pig,” because I am hooked on bacon. More specifically, I am hooked on my own home-cured bacon. Prompted by a whole lot of time on my hands thanks ...