Making your own bacon at home is easier than you might think, and the results are far superior to anything you can buy at the store. With just a few simple ingredients, a bit of patience, and the ...

Bacon doesn’t have to be smoked, says Hank Shaw, author of four cookbooks and the award-winning blog Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. “Pancetta is the most obvious example,” he says. “There are a lot of ...

1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Fit a sheet of parchment paper onto a jelly-roll pan. 2. Mix chile powder and sugar in a shallow bowl. Bury each slice of bacon in the sugar mixture, rubbing both ...

Last weekend, on a visit to San Francisco, I witnessed cookbook author and food writer Michael Ruhlman show a roomful of bloggers at the California Culinary Academy how to cure bacon. Yup, at home.