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Title: BaconCamp
Post by: bijou on April 15, 2009, 04:48:33 PM
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I found this out at the recent inaugural “BaconCamp, San Francisco,” a meeting and bacon recipe judging competition populated by the strangest and most vocal bacon lovers.

These are the people who buy pillows that look like bacon and who spend hours in the kitchen dreaming up something new to do with bacon. So many of them wanted silk-screened shirts with a slice of bacon printed on them that the T-shirt maker broke his gear midevent.

They are part of an increasing number of people who think of bacon as more than a source of protein—it’s a lifestyle.

The Turbaconducken inventor, slightly built Corey James, was a judge along with five other self-professed bacon “experts.”

James, a Southern California resident, publishes Bacon Today ( www.bacontoday.com ), an online bacon news site that offers up at least one new bacon story a day. His Web site, which reports more than 100,000 unique visitors per month, is fueled by an absolute passion for the pork product with a popularity online and in real life that doesn’t appear will be waning anytime soon.

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“Seduced by Bacon” is a top-selling 2006 cookbook that author Joanna Pruess says is so popular, it went into its fourth printing within months of publication.

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As the afternoon wore on, the judges tasted maple bacon lollipops, bacon-infused bourbon, warm bacon and blue cheese dip, bacon hummus and dry-as-a-bone bacon brownies.

A stunned silence fell over the room when San Mateo’s Christian Williams introduced his “bacone”: bacon deep-fried into a cone shape, stuffed with eggs and hash browns and topped with a country biscuit and gravy. A fat-packed handheld bacon breakfast you can eat like an ice cream cone!

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link (http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/640195.html)

So, did anyone here go to this?  :-)
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: The Village Idiot on April 15, 2009, 04:57:52 PM
we need to hold this event in Texas
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: DixieBelle on April 15, 2009, 07:47:45 PM
Mmm....BACON!

Popular Science has a 5000 degree homemade bacon heat lance in it this month. :-)
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 15, 2009, 08:14:18 PM
To arms!

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/dangerously_delicious_the_bak4.php
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: bijou on April 16, 2009, 03:40:57 AM
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on April 15, 2009, 08:14:18 PM
To arms!

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/dangerously_delicious_the_bak4.php
There's nothing bacon can't do.  :lmao:
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: Wayne on April 16, 2009, 06:18:43 AM
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/wayne66_01/April%202009/bacon-briefcase.jpg)
Title: Re: BaconCamp
Post by: Chris_ on April 16, 2009, 08:03:32 AM
Quote from: FGL on April 15, 2009, 04:57:52 PM
we need to hold this event in Texas
We prefer to leave the pork in DC.