Bringing Home The Bacon?
April 30th, 2009
With news that the world may or may not be on the verge of a swine flu pandemic, Bloomberg is reporting that the World Health Organization is dropping the colloquial term for the H1N1 virus, due in part to objections from the pork industry. The World Organization for Animal Health called Egypt’s decision yesterday to slaughter every pig in the nation “inappropriate” and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confessed to eating pork twice in the last 24 hours as part of an effort to demonstrate that the combination human/avian/swine flu is not a food-borne illness and has not at this point been found in any actual swine.
So has the news affected your cooking or your appetite this week? Is it business as usual in your kitchen or does the thought of bacon give you pause?
April 30th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Biz as usual. I hate to think how much this will hurt workers in the pork industry.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Biz as usual here too.
Although the thought of bacon always gives me pause……both calorie wise and because I LOVE IT.
Sorry….I got carried away for a moment.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:41 am
I went to Thai Square restaurant (http://www.thaisquarerestaurant.com/) yesterday for lunch and had their crispy pork with Chinese broccoli — large cubes of what the French would call lardons (basically bacon), flash fried, then stir-fried with lots of chopped leafy Chinese broccoli in a rich but not cloying garlicky brown sauce.