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Posts tagged “salt pork”

Ingredient Spotlight: Lardons

Lardons are really nothing fancier than thinly sliced pieces of salt pork or fatback, and yet they've acquired a rather classy reputation through appearances in celebrity chef cookbooks and fancy rest...

In Praise of Pork Fat

We agree with reader mschatelaine from our post on marbling: the push to make everything lean and fat free does tend to go overboard sometimes. Lucky, that won't be a problem as long as pork fat is ar...

Less Meat, More Flavor: Salt Pork

Salt pork has always seemed a very old-fashioned American ingredient; we think of Little House on the Prairie and other stories of pioneers with only long-lasting salt pork to give a little meaty flav...