Seduced by Bacon : Recipes and Lore about America's Favorite Indulgence

by Joanna Pruess with Bob Lape; Photographs by Liesa Cole

• ISBN13: 9781592288519
• ISBN10: 1592288510
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Our love affair with bacon is passionate and enduring. We simply adore its smell, which carries us back to comforting times, and its taste like no other. Caramel and wood fires come to mind. Oh, those delectably succulent, salty, crunchy morsels! Very few foods don't take a shine to bacon. Not only does it flatter savouries, but bacon is an admirable complement to sweets as well. Seduced by Bacon offers sensuous dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and anything in between. Every cook and connoisseur - in fact, anyone who eats - will savor the delectable recipes, tantalising photographs, and fascinating bits of baconry in this fresh and innovative cookbook.

Author Biography

JOANNA PRUESS, author of Eat Tea, Soup for Every Body, and Supermarket Confidential, has written for the food column of The New York Times Magazine, Food & Wine, Food Arts, Saveur, and The Washington Post, and is a regular contributor to the AP syndicate. She writes a column for Specialty Food magazine and develops recipes for specialty food manufacturers in the U.S. and France. She lives in Bedford Hills, New York.

Table of Contents

[ul]Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
ODE TO BACON	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
How To Buy And Store Bacon	p. 00
How To Cook Bacon	p. 00
Baconology	p. 00
Useful Cooking Equipment	p. 00
Recipes
Breakfast & Baked Goods	p. 00
Appetizers & Snacks	p. 00
Salads & Soups	p. 00
Sandwiches	p. 00
Fish	p. 00
Poultry & Meat	p. 00
Pasta, Beans & Grains	p. 00
Vegetable Side Dishes	p. 00
Desserts	p. 00
Suppliers Of Fine Specialty Bacons	p. 00
Index	p. 00
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