Mark your calendars and lock up your pigs! This is a new Stephenson and Duess favorite. It’s International Bacon Day!

http://internationalbaconday.blogspot.com/

Its like a birthday or Christmas or Thanksgiving…or Valentine’s day for that special smoky salty bacon sweety… Saturday, September 7th.

We are proud to say that we were planning a bbq that day and it is certainly a tiny course correction to put us into alignment with the day’s festivities. And that course correction is bacon!

From the site:

Bacon Day is a day of Bacon… think Iron Chef but all day and the secret ingredient is Bacon. Breakfast traditionally consists of bacon waffles, with a side of bacon, and any other concoctions thought up. Throughout the day there are showings of Kevin Bacon movies and any other movies with leading roles given to pigs, e.g. Babe, Piglet’s Big Adventure. Lunch must have BLTs and there are snacks around and slices of bacon everywhere. Dinner is a fight for your food quite literally. It is more a tasting of all things bacon and everyone wants a taste. Due to the vast quantities of bacon cooked, the grill outside is the best bet. If you are invited to a Bacon Day celebration, it is traditional to bring something to eat (of course containing bacon) which can be made there if the host allows, and drink (which may or may not include bacon).

No fake-on (soy bacon) for Stephenson and Duess though. We will be cooking up some of the good stuff – cinnamon pepper and pancetta spiced bacon I think.