Why Or Why Not Bacon?

What doesn't go well with bacon?

I confess! I am a bacon eater. Bacon is my second favorite meat behind lamb. However, for dietary reasons, I restrict my bacon intake to 2–3 servings a month. Bacon has become a super popular food item in modern times with websites, blogs, a Wikipedia website, t-shirts and a wide range of consumer products all lauding the popularity of bacon.

It is served up in bacon burgers, bacon-wrapped chicken, the very popular BLT, bacon salad dressing, bacon melted cheese and many other variations and recipes. There is even bacon ice-cream.

There is a common misunderstanding of the origins of bacon. People assume bacon is an American invention, but a number of cultures around the world produced and consumed bacon in various forms thousands of years ago. The documented history of bacon goes back to 1500 B.C. The Chinese were curing pork bellies with salt, creating an early form of bacon at that time even though there is evidence pigs were domesticated in China in 4900 B.C. Pigs were also being raised in Europe by 1500, B.C. Romans ate a type of bacon they called petaso, which was essentially domesticated pig meat boiled with figs, then browned…