Why Haven't I Heard Of This Before...A Bacon Tasting Bar

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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No, not a candy bar, but a bacon sampler bar at Press in St. Helena. Available on their bar menu. I’ll most definitely be going next trip to Napa.

BACON BAR

Crispy Hobbs Bacon 3
Double-Cut Nueske Bacon 5
Benton’s Country Bacon 5
Black Pig Bacon 5
D’Artagnan Wild Boar Bacon 5
D’Artagnan Duck Bacon 5
Candied Hobbs Bacon 4
Bacon Sampler 14


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I’ve had the two D’Artagnan’s and they are not surprising quite different.

Of course I’d order it - a no brainer!

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20 mg? Take two, and enjoy!

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Sounds great!

Last night we made crostini for our bar with a commercial Bacon / Sweet Onion confit and a sharp cheese laced with sage and the crowd went wild…

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Bill, it has been on the menu there in the bar area for quite some time, at least in some form. At least 2 years, I think.

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That figures. I have been in St. Helena a half dozen times in the past two years and have never even walked into Press. I won’t make the same mistake again.

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hmmmm, MEAT CANDY!!!

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I believe Bacon has jumped the shark. Goat is the new Pig.

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Best idea ever! Pass the bacon please!

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Press now has Flannery beef as well.

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They have always had Flannery, just as has Dean & Deluca. They are just now openly advertising it.

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I can’t get goat at most grocery stores. I can ALWAYS get bacon at the grocery store. Just sayin’…

Bruce

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We have a new restaurant just down the road the serves a goat burger along with several other goat entrees. The owners of the place raise the goats themselves. Part of the goats’ feed is our spent grain.

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If so, jumping the shark has jumped the shark.

[snort.gif]

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This is awesome. I’ll have to sit at the bar for appetizers when I head out there next month. Are they still doing wine specials on Wednesday nights?

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Unfortunately my local organic goat farm, about 5 miles from here, seems to have gone downhill. Last racks bought seem to have been from an older animal, and I think they may be letting them live a bit longer for economic necessity reasons.

Count me in as a bog goat fan

(now don’t start me on the pretty boring “Beef Bacon” I encountered a few places in Cairo recently)

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So…

If you bring your own bacon to a restaurant, do you have to pay…










Porkage?

Bruce