This is How I Want My Meat Packaged...

as long as it’s from a reputable butcher (as you can’t actually see the meat). A unique packaging concept for local, organic meats by Chris Chapman. Not only super cute but biodegradable as well. That first package, however, should be labeled “bacon” since the cut shown is the belly!

Dig In. Pig Out.

“Oinkganic” chocolate from Fat Pig has adorable packaging and an even cuter website. Doesn’t exactly make gorging on chocolate guilt-free... Perhaps if it had bacon in it the pig reference wouldn’t make us feel so self conscious.

Review: BKLYN Larder

Brooklyn Larder on Flatbush & Bergen in Prospect Heights.

Strawberry gelato (organic with local berries):

The Greenest Meat

This may be a teeny bit late for Earth Day—but now every day is Earth Day for pork lovers! According to Slate, studies show that pig meat is greener than beef and other red meats. Although I do love a good steak... cows expel a bunch of methane when they belch or fart (the stinkers) whereas pigs do not. Pigs also reproduce more efficiently—cows & sheep give birth to maybe one little calf or baby lamb a year. Pigs on the other hand can have 20 to 30 little piglets. They also take less time (and less feed) to reach their market weight. 

So go ahead and indulge in all your favorite pork products—especially bacon! Organic, humanely raised, nitrate-free bacon of course.

Buy Bacon. Get Free Delivery on Fresh Direct.

For all you pamphagous bargain hunters and online shoppers:

Now through March 31, enjoy FREE DELIVERY whenever you buy $10 or more in the dairy section of Fresh Direct. Use this promo as many times as you like until March 31. Just enter promo code: MOO every time you check out. The best part is bacon is in the dairy category!! They have nitrate-free Berkshire bacon as well as organic choices from Applegate Farms. 

An Honest Bacon Debate

My fellow baconista Charlotte sends me pictures from her favorite Bacon Sandwich spot in London’s Regents Park. The Honest Sausage uses free-range and organic pork from small, family run farms. I think Jamie Oliver would approve! 

Now, some people would say that English-style bacon isn't bacon at all. Charlotte assures me it’s delicious (these bacon sandwiches have been known to cause quite a fuss) whereas I♥Bacon tells me “it’s just salty ham.” Anyone care to weigh in? And please tell me where in NY I can try some for myself.

Everything should taste like bacon...

So goes the motto of J&D's bacon salt.

And here are some other things that taste like bacon...

Maple bacon flavored lollipops. "Incredible pork pops made with real organic chunks of cured bacon enhanced with the subtle sweetness of pure Vermont maple syrup" according to thegreenhead.com. 

Peppies! The crispy, crunchy bacon snack.

And Nobby's Nuts—another British snack that had a very cheeky ad campaign encouraging women to "Grab Nobby's Nuts."