“Sometime about the middle of the 1920′s I seem to remember my first bacon-wrapped snack, served to accompany bathtub gin martinis. Good bathtub gin was not without its merits, but it needed food to keep one in shape for the second and third drink, so snacks became more hearty. I’m certain the first snack of this type I had was one I find often these days in trekking around the country–a bacon-wrapped crisp cracker or saltine. It still makes on of the more successful items in this genre, although practically everything you can think of has been wrapped in bacon these last years.”
–You gotta love this guy!–from the chapter on Cocktail Food in James Beard’s American Cookery by James Beard. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1972.
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Even better: how about bacon vodka?
http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/
yeah, you guys should make the bacon vodka so I don’t have to. Hee.
Also I’m still slowly kneading my way through Beard on Bread. I like his writing and the recipes work really well.
That’s why I married you!
Wow… I had no idea you were a bigamist, Paul.
Ahh, the perils of the cross post…