I love bacon! Nothing tastes quite like it, and when properly cooked, it isn’t QUITE as bad for you as it seems. And a little will go a long way… A couple years ago, I learned how to make my own – at home, without special tools, smokers, etc, etc… thanks to PBS. and the internet. One show provided the basic technique, another showed how to get smoky flavor from your oven... It’s actually quite easy, and costs about the same or less than the cheaper brands at my local stores – and is MUCH BETTER than even some of the priciest brands! I’ve been making it ever since… One family occasion I used a whole pineapple as the appetizer centerpiece, and used bamboo skewers to make a glorious presentation. Each skewer had a cube of bacon (or, "lardon"), a green pepper square, and a pineapple cube cut from the whole – each skewer was stuck into the original shell like a flavorful porcupine! Very kewl, and well accepted! In the interest of being concise, you can find the recipes for: Curing Salt, Bacon Process, Indoor Smokehouse, and Lardons in our recipe files. We don't have to bring it home - we can make it at home!