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KITCHEN
CRISPY BUSINESS
A
s I visit my farmer friends for
vegetables to make artisan pizzas
throughout the week, I always
keep an eye out for the best-selling items
like asparagus, strawberry, tomatoes and
pears. The farmers are very accommodating
but as I wait for the inevitable question
about buying the hard-to-sell items like
turnip, parsnip, rutabaga, daikon and
kohlrabi, I cringe inside. Unlike Europeans,
we here in the U.S. have a twisted
relationship with traditional root vegetables
that are popular over there. The thought of
trying to manipulate these downtrodden
vegetables into a good selling pizza weighs
heavy on me. But because these farmers
are my friends, I usually cave into their
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lame sales pitch because I know the secret
weapon lies not in the roasting, curing,
pureeing or slicing of the poor selling
veggies. It lies in the age-old pairing of
what sometimes seems to be my best friend.
Bacon! Turning Clark Kent into Superman
doesn't require a phone booth. Not when
you have bacon.
Porking Brake
Bacon, as it is named now, has a long
history. The pig was first domesticated from
wild boar in the Tigris bason in eastern
Turkey as long ago as 13,000 BC. Greek
historian Herodotus said that any Egyptian
who brushed against a pig immediately
jumped in the Nile to purify themselves.
Story & Photo John Gutekanst
" Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert. " - George Takei
But it was found that Pharaohs offered
them at temples and feasts. Egyptians all
imbibed in pork in predynastic times and
usually ate it simply with oil and scallions,
but it fell out of favor with the ruling class
during the old kingdom. The Romans loved
pork bellies braised in garum, (fish sauce)
and especially loved the young pigs rescued
from the jaws of a ravenous wolf because
they though it made the meat more tender.
As the wagon trains made their way across
this country in the old west, a campfire
favorite of fried, creamed salt pork was
popular on the trail.
Today, bacon is still very popular and
with our industrial food system, some pork
belly is processed using pigs that are caged

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