This Week in Bacon
Stand by your ham! That’s the refrain coming from chefs and pig farmers in Britain, where local bacon and pork products are evidently less frequently consumed. Gordon Ramsay (who raised pigs for slaughter on his great BBC show, The F Word) is on board, as is his sometime F Word collaboratrix extraordinaire, the bawdy Janet Street Porter. And British pork fans aren’t stopping here. There’s not only a best bacon in Britain award, there’s even a song, “Stand by Your Ham,” sung the tune of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man”.
Farmers’ video site here. More on the pro-pork campaign here, and at the aptly named pigsareworthit.com.
