I appreciate the verve and passion with which this Texan informs the Jimmy Dean sausage company about his feelings about their new smaller, 12-ounce packages. I also like that in Texas, Jimmy Dean sausage goes great with a T-bone steak.

A new species of wild pig previously unknown to science has been discovered in the Brazilian jungle.
The large creature grows to a length of more than four feet and is almost twice as heavy as its nearest relative. … Named the ‘giant peccary’, the creature was unknown until the skins and bones of animals killed [...]

Not just stand-up. Funny stand-up. About bacon.

Watch a man fry cracklins and stuff smoked sausage. Turn off the sound because whatever he has to say is unimportant — this man is processing pork. via [offthebroiler.wordpress.com]

Susie and I have made a bit of a name for ourselves among our friends here in Brooklyn for being BBQ nerds. Which is fine—I make some great ribs; she has a killer pulled pork recipe. But we often try to explain to our friends as they cram meat down their gullets why BBQ is [...]

Now, hard-core foodies are drooling over the prospect of something truly superlative from Spain, at least in price: a salt-cured ham costing about $2,100 per leg, or a cruel $160 per pound. It’s a price believed to make it the most expensive ham in the world. … The 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve (as this pricey [...]

He didn’t do it, but he’s threatening to make a version with cubed pieces of pork belly shaped like croutons. Genius.
Chicken Fried Pork Belly Caesar [Ruhlman]

If you’re equipped with a mechanism to smoke your own meats at home—and if you aren’t, make it so—you may absorb the same savory inspiration that seeped into my adipose tissues when reading this write-up of one man’s quest to create his own bacon.
The process sounds simply enough: cure; smoke; fry; eat. And you can’t [...]

From the “Bacon Salt Story” page:
It was then that Justin told Dave and another coworker named Kara about his idea for Bacon Salt™. Kara, who is a vegetarian, loved the idea. Dave, a card-carrying carnivore and Midwesterner, loved it even more. Even the waiter at the fancy restaurant loved it.
That’s right: a seasoning that makes [...]

Some say that the internet’s obsession with bacon is over, but I defy this on two counts: first, no one has yet been spotted cramming bacon into their anus, creating a Goatse-inspired BLT (Bacon Ligament Tearing); second, no one has yet made bacon-infused vodka.
Oh wait: Yes, they have. [BaconVodka.GooglePages.com] (Thanks, Brownlee!)
Previously: Bacon…burger? Baconburger! [Dethroner]