Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore About America's Favorite Indulgence

by Joanna Pruess

Book Overview

Our love affair with bacon is passionate and enduring. We simply adore its smell, which carries us back to comforting times, and its taste like no other. Caramel and wood fires come to mind. Oh, those... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592288510
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Lyons Pr
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bacon Cook Book

I bought this as a gift for someone, so I cannot rate it as well as they might, but I flipped through the pages, and it seemed like a great book. Sure made me hungry for bacon! Nice hard cover and good colorful pages. Fast shipping.

A+, and then some.........

What a fantastic book! I loved it. The bacon variations alone make this book priceless. Do yourself a favor and bring home SBB!

At First it Sounds a Little Weird

I've always loved filet with bacon wrapped around it. And there are bacon hamburgers, and BLTs. Then a few years ago I discovered shrimp wrapped in bacon. Then I saw the cover of this book, and that was all it took. The cover has a picture of Salmon, with some kind of glaze and a couple of slices of bacon draped over it. What a great idea! - The recipie is on page 94. And on page 105 there's Jamaican Jerked Shrimp, mushrooms & tomatoes (with bacon of course). The good thing here is that you don't even have to wrap the bacon around the shrimp. Then there's chicken, turkey, lamb, short ribs, rabbit. And who would have thought of a peanut-butter and bacon sandwich -- just wait 'til you try it. By now you should have the idea. Here's about a hundred different ways to use bacon to enhance foods. Some I haven't tried yet, but am going to. A couple really have me wondering: Pecan-Brown Sugar and Bacon Ice Cream. Ice Cream?

A whole cookbook just about bacon sounds rather odd...

A whole cookbook just about bacon sounds rather odd; but when you factor in the idea that bacon can be served to compliment sweets, as well as form a component of savory dishes, you can see why a whole book dedicated to this culinary topic would be well warranted. Full-page color close-up photos blend with dishes ranging from Firecrackers - a cheese and shallot-enhanced bacon dish - to Old-Fashioned Shepard's Pie which includes bacon with its other ingredients. Even Pecan Waffles come with a Caramel-Bacon Sauce in this delicious survey expanding the dishes that can be enhanced by bacon. Dedicated bacon lovers and general-interest libraries strong in cookbooks will love Joanna Pruess and Bob Lape's "Seduced By Bacon"!. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Devoured it from cover to cover!

I feel vindicated! I knew I loved bacon for several good reasons, and now we know that there are others out there just like me including the likes of James Beard & Julia Child. I love that the author educates and entertains us with the history of bacon. I'm a picture book lover and this book is loaded. Even if you can't cook (like me) you've got to try some of these recipes (the Bacon-Popped Popcorn is outrageously good). Very cute Bacon Bits: "My favorite animal is bacon." - Fran Lebowitz Five Yums Up!