Romancing the Pork

Now that I have your attention …

It’s wacky Wednesday and nothing comes wackier than chocolate covered bacon. I consider myself an affectionado of a food item that along with flour, beans and brown sugar, kept people alive when they wagon-ho’d to the Wild West. You could say our country was founded on bacon. It’s a national treasure, like the bald eagle.

A truly American rendition of cured meat, it doesn’t come with a fancy European name that would suit a romance novel stud, like prosciutto...