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02/09/2013- Los Angeles Bacon Festival
L.A. Bacon Festival at the Peterson Auto Museum
February 9th, 2013 , 2-6pm
12 Restaurants, Bakers and Caterers
20 Beers on tap
General Admission: $40 VIP Admission: $60
Bacon Festival
L.A. Bacon Festival at the Peterson Auto Museum
February 9th, 2013 , 2-6pm
12 Restaurants, Bakers and Caterers
20 Beers on tap
General Admission: $40 VIP Admission: $60
Bacon Festival
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Pork belly lovers to gather at first L.A. Bacon Festival on Saturday
By Mariecar Mendoza, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/07/2013 05:48:22 PM PST
Updated: 02/07/2013 06:14:09 PM PST
A Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich at Mendocino Farms sandwich market in Marina Del Rey, on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at Petersen Auto Museum featuring hundreds of vendors who will be serving pork belly in both sweet and savory ways. Mendocino Farms, known for their craft meats, is a sponsor of the event and will be showcasing their new bacon marmalade. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
Mario Del Pero, founder of Mendocino Farms, is about to bite into a Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich from his menu on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at the Petersen Auto Museum featuring dozens of vendors. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
Forget 6 Degrees of Bacon, try bacon at -30 degrees Celsius in ice cream form or turn it up a notch with a strip of jalapeño bacon. These bacon creations and more will be offered the first-ever L.A. Bacon Festival on Saturday.
The everything-bacon celebration on Saturday is slated to feature more than 40 vendors who will be serving up pork belly in various forms to show the versatility of what meat purveyors have dubbed a timeless meaty treat.
"I've always said bacon is like meat candy," said Scott Slater, owner of Slater's 50/50. "It's the best flavor to put on your tongue and really goes with anything."
Slater's 50/50, which has four restaurants including Pasadena and Huntington Beach locations, will be participating in the festival showcasing its B'B'B' Bacon Burger with a patty that is half ground beef, half ground bacon topped with Bacon American Cheese, thick cut bacon, Bacon Island Dressing and a Sunny Side Up Egg on a Bacon Pretzel Bun (a pretzel bread made with bacon fat instead of butter and sprinkled with bacon bits).
Mendocino Farms founder Mario Del Pero, whose chain of Los Angeles restaurants highlights seasonal and local foods, theorizes that the popularity of bacon may have been propelled by the culinary world's efforts to use as many different parts of an animal as possible.
"This whole movement of offal has revitalized what is simply a very, very rich cut of belly meat," Del Pero said of the use of various organ meats like tripe, which is stomach lining. "You have some gifted fine-dining chefs who are able to use fine-dining techniques to cure that cut of meat so you're seeing people confit it, smoke it; with a sophisticated chef perspective, bacon can be celebrated in so many ways."
Mendocino Farms, for instance, will be debuting Executive Chef Judy Han's bacon marmalade that will be used in her new Mac & Cheese Bacon Sandwich slated to hit menus in spring.
One of the oldest
IF YOU GO
The first-ever L.A. Bacon Festival, produced by Drink Eat Play and sponsored by Mendocino Farms, is scheduled for 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at the Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd.
processed meats in history, bacon has been best known as a breakfast side dish. Now bacon has grown to become the ingredient that steals the show to become a dish all on its own.
"It's become so popular that it's gotten into every meal of the day," Slater said, adding that bacon has made its way on to his restaurant's menu from salads to dessert. "It's really a fun food to play with."
Dan Silberstein, promoter for Drink Eat Play that is producing the festival, expects nearly 1,800 people to attend on Saturday, which isn't a stretch as Los Angeles is ranked No. 2 in the top 10 bacon consuming markets in the United States, according to the American Meat Institute.
A more than $2 billion industry, bacon has even transcended the plate, making its way into cocktails as bacon-infused vodka and even adorning the body as bacon jewelry, lip balm and a bacon bra, said institute spokeswoman Janet Riley.
"Bacon is being used in so many new ways that it's not just the typical greasy strip people grew up with," Riley said.
Del Pero added that the healthiest eater can't resist it either.
"People are eating healthier, but with that they like to balance it all out with some indulgence, and I think bacon is one of those jewels of indulgence that is here to stay," he said.
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A Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich at Mendocino Farms sandwich market in Marina Del Rey, on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at Petersen Auto Museum featuring hundreds of vendors who will be serving pork belly in both sweet and savory ways. Mendocino Farms, known for their craft meats, is a sponsor of the event and will be showcasing their new bacon marmalade. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
By Mariecar Mendoza, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/07/2013 05:48:22 PM PST
Updated: 02/07/2013 06:14:09 PM PST
A Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich at Mendocino Farms sandwich market in Marina Del Rey, on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at Petersen Auto Museum featuring hundreds of vendors who will be serving pork belly in both sweet and savory ways. Mendocino Farms, known for their craft meats, is a sponsor of the event and will be showcasing their new bacon marmalade. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
Mario Del Pero, founder of Mendocino Farms, is about to bite into a Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich from his menu on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at the Petersen Auto Museum featuring dozens of vendors. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
Forget 6 Degrees of Bacon, try bacon at -30 degrees Celsius in ice cream form or turn it up a notch with a strip of jalapeño bacon. These bacon creations and more will be offered the first-ever L.A. Bacon Festival on Saturday.
The everything-bacon celebration on Saturday is slated to feature more than 40 vendors who will be serving up pork belly in various forms to show the versatility of what meat purveyors have dubbed a timeless meaty treat.
"I've always said bacon is like meat candy," said Scott Slater, owner of Slater's 50/50. "It's the best flavor to put on your tongue and really goes with anything."
Slater's 50/50, which has four restaurants including Pasadena and Huntington Beach locations, will be participating in the festival showcasing its B'B'B' Bacon Burger with a patty that is half ground beef, half ground bacon topped with Bacon American Cheese, thick cut bacon, Bacon Island Dressing and a Sunny Side Up Egg on a Bacon Pretzel Bun (a pretzel bread made with bacon fat instead of butter and sprinkled with bacon bits).
Mendocino Farms founder Mario Del Pero, whose chain of Los Angeles restaurants highlights seasonal and local foods, theorizes that the popularity of bacon may have been propelled by the culinary world's efforts to use as many different parts of an animal as possible.
"This whole movement of offal has revitalized what is simply a very, very rich cut of belly meat," Del Pero said of the use of various organ meats like tripe, which is stomach lining. "You have some gifted fine-dining chefs who are able to use fine-dining techniques to cure that cut of meat so you're seeing people confit it, smoke it; with a sophisticated chef perspective, bacon can be celebrated in so many ways."
Mendocino Farms, for instance, will be debuting Executive Chef Judy Han's bacon marmalade that will be used in her new Mac & Cheese Bacon Sandwich slated to hit menus in spring.
One of the oldest
IF YOU GO
The first-ever L.A. Bacon Festival, produced by Drink Eat Play and sponsored by Mendocino Farms, is scheduled for 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at the Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd.
processed meats in history, bacon has been best known as a breakfast side dish. Now bacon has grown to become the ingredient that steals the show to become a dish all on its own.
"It's become so popular that it's gotten into every meal of the day," Slater said, adding that bacon has made its way on to his restaurant's menu from salads to dessert. "It's really a fun food to play with."
Dan Silberstein, promoter for Drink Eat Play that is producing the festival, expects nearly 1,800 people to attend on Saturday, which isn't a stretch as Los Angeles is ranked No. 2 in the top 10 bacon consuming markets in the United States, according to the American Meat Institute.
A more than $2 billion industry, bacon has even transcended the plate, making its way into cocktails as bacon-infused vodka and even adorning the body as bacon jewelry, lip balm and a bacon bra, said institute spokeswoman Janet Riley.
"Bacon is being used in so many new ways that it's not just the typical greasy strip people grew up with," Riley said.
Del Pero added that the healthiest eater can't resist it either.
"People are eating healthier, but with that they like to balance it all out with some indulgence, and I think bacon is one of those jewels of indulgence that is here to stay," he said.
[email protected]
818-713-3623
twitter.com/LADNMarMendoza
A Kurobuta Pork Belly Banh Mi sandwich at Mendocino Farms sandwich market in Marina Del Rey, on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. L.A. s first Bacon Festival hits Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at Petersen Auto Museum featuring hundreds of vendors who will be serving pork belly in both sweet and savory ways. Mendocino Farms, known for their craft meats, is a sponsor of the event and will be showcasing their new bacon marmalade. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
TnWatchdog
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Boy opmmur, those pork sandwiches look good. I would want to have several and a bunch of beer to get my $40 admission covered, making a pig out of myself for sure! I wonder what the VIP gets for $60.
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Yeah.. that sandwhich is making my mouth water, and I just ate too.
-Also if I knew a woman that would wear a bacon bra for me.. we'd probably get married the day after.
-Also if I knew a woman that would wear a bacon bra for me.. we'd probably get married the day after.
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Now that's what I call a midnite snack! Bacon has no boundaries!
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Nice! I'll cook my GF a bacon bra for Valentine's day.
jon
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im pretty sure my gf would just laugh at the idea and eat the bacon....
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Hot and sizzling...the bacon looks good too!