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 ...

Have you ever looked through the bacon selection at the grocery store and noticed that while most of the packages are labeled "cured," there are some that are labeled "uncured?" This has always ...

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.

Brown sugar bacon wrapped smokies are a baked appetizer many of us make often and love to bring to parties, and for good reason. They’re sweet, savory, and a little sticky, and they disappear fast ...