Busy, so busy but there is always time to link to 2 stories about America's new darling, bacon:
First Harvard School of Public Health published a research that indicates people who eat processed meats like sausage, bacon and hot dogs were at 42% higher risk of heart disease and 19% more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes. Yet of the million people studied for this research, eating unprocessed beef, lamb and pork did not increase the risk of heart or weight problems.
Health Effects of Processed Meats Versus Unprocessed Red Meats from Harvard SPH on Vimeo.
I know all the kids are loving their bacon right now, from KFC's Double Down to sugared bacon donuts but these findings seem to place the blame on the salt. Even though it is really hard to abuse salt by avoiding processed foods and fast foods and even slower foods in restaurants, I must say - You can have my salt when you pry my shaker from my cold, dead, well preserved fingers.
Second bit of news isn't so much bacon. Cochon may be French for hog, but this behavior is douchebaggery in any language: Last Saturday, Cochon 555, a traveling roadshow of all things pig, landed in Portland. An event that goes from city to city places 5 chefs, 5 wineries and 5 pigs in a room with a bunch of foodists and waits for the fireworks to happen. Which I'd guess promoter Brady Lowe wanted to be of the culinary variety. Instead, the gauntlet was thrown when the offending words "Dude your pig is from Iowa*" were spoken. *A paraphrase that we CSI'd together from written accounts.
A headbutt, 2 arrests, a tasering, pepper spray, a fractured leg, a fist fight in front of a strip club and suprisingly for 10 hours of drinking, no citations for cocaine possession. I am sure with Anthony Bourdain rolling into town this will be to No Reservation as gay kids excluded from prom are to Ellen Degenres. Kelly Clarke of Portland's the Willamette Week, has the details here - http://bit.ly/pdxpigfight.
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