Camp Bacon at Zingerman's

This event is too good not to write about, a weekend long celebration of bacon! Zingerman's, which I also wrote about here, is bringing some of the biggest names in bacon to Ann Arbor, MI (I know, I hate Ann Arbor too - go Buckeyes!) for a weekend full of bacon festivities. Tickets for the all day bacon class are steep at $150 but I'm sure it's an experience you'll never forget. Highlights include:

• Bacon tasting with Zingerman’s co-founder Ari Weinzweig
• Bacon curing demos with Allan Benton from East Tennessee
  and Nick Spencer from Chicago
• Hands-on pancetta-making class with Herb Eckhouse
  from La Quercia in Iowa
• Camp Bacon T-Shirt!!!
• Bacon cooking demo with James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and chef Molly Stevens
• Plus breakfast and lunch from Zingerman’s, a free copy of Ari’s Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon, a free t-shirt and more!

Following the class there is also a Bacon Street Fair to raise money for the local 4-H program. A $5 donation gets you tastes of bacon from some of America’s best—Nueske’s, Benton’s, La Quercia, Ozark Mountain Trails and more, plus bacon-cheddar scones, bacon-apple coffee cake, peppered bacon farm bread and other bacon based baked goods from Zingerman’s Bakehouse; bacon based games for kids, book signings by Sarah Katherine Lewis, Molly Stevens, Ari Weinzweig and more!

I'd love to see Michael Symon, Jonathon Sawyer and some of the other chefs in the Cleveland area get together in celebration of not just bacon, but the entire pig! What do you say Michael???