Recently tipped off to a few pork recipes, I was convinced to try making my own bacon. I don’t have a lot to add to the story from the article I followed, but the few differences are key.

Let’s start with the basics: choice of meat. Traditionally in the United States bacon comes from pork bellies. Anything constituting “bacon” which does not come from this part of the pig seems to be labeled “Canadian bacon.” It would be more accurately called “back bacon” simply because it comes...

My girlfriend and I went to Washington DC for the last day of the Cherry Blossom Festival and managed to find the last cherry tree in DC that was still in bloom. While walking across the Mall in between the Capital building and the Washington Monument we came across a couple tables with people giving “free stress tests.” I had heard of these things before and seen spoofs of them, but had never actually witnessed it for myself. I had to...