You know when you're cooking seven or eight pieces of bacon but they won't all fit side by side in the pan? You play bacon-tetris to make it all work out - rotating rashers until the pan is full. Organizing chefs into…
Happy New Year Bacon Nation! Baconfest Chicago (4/17 & 4/18) is T-minus 12 weeks away and we have two tasty pieces of news to share with you. Mark your calendars! General Admission Tickets ($100 + fees) go on sale at…
Greetings Bacon Nation, Happy New Year to everyone out there in frosty Chicagoland. The holidays are over and if you’re like us, it’s back to work to kick off 2015. Whooohooo! A few quick updates (and an anecdote) to brighten…
Greetings Bacon-Nation: It’s holiday time and we at Baconfest Chicago along with our VIP Hour sponsor, the Cooking Channel, have a meaty gift idea for all you bacon-lovers and lovers of bacon-lovers. On Wednesday December 3, we will be releasing a limited number…
Greetings Bacon Nation, Long time no speak. We hope you all had a great summer and are ready for the winter ahead. Though it may seem like a long way off, April will be here before we know it and…
Greetings Bacon Nation, And happy July to all of you. This is Andre Von Baconvitch reaching out to everyone with a personal note. I normally never mix the worlds of my "day job" (as a sound designer/composer) with that of…
Greeting Bacon Nation and Happy May!! We at Baconfest Chicago want to help get the word out about the opening of a new bacon-centric establishment brought to you by our great friends and long-time supporters Chris Latchford and Patrick Berger,…
Website - Facebook - Twitter Greetings Bacon Nation, Baconfest Chicago 2013 Golden Rasher Award Winner FRESCO 21 is offering some bacon and pork themed delicacies currently on their menu. Stop by, visit them and ENJOY! Cheers, Team Baconfest Chicago * Greek salmon cube Bacon, sunny…
Baconfest Chicago 2014 happened. And you know what? It was awesome. We'll no doubt be adding more detail to our recap as time goes by, but we wanted to make sure we shared the broad outlines as quickly as possible. We…
Friends, you know we love you. We want to see you. We like hanging out, chilling, eating bacon. But friends, if you didn't buy a ticket for Baconfest, we're going to have to take a raincheck. Our event is sold…
Dear Bacon Nation, We at Baconfest Chicago wanted to take this opportunity to offer up a word of gratitude to some of our sponsors who help make the experience that much more entertaining, green and well stocked with the necessary…
Bacon-Nation! The Fifty/50 is back as a Baconfest Chicago Sponsor for 2014. Owners Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner are bringing back their patented Bacon Bloody Mary - the Wobble Stopper. This is a Bloody Mary so delicious that we've named it the Official…
We’re thrilled to welcome the following Experience Partner Sponsors to Baconfest Chicago 2014. These artisan producers of bacon and bacon-related merchandise represent an astonishing range of creativity and fun. They run the gamut from artisan bacon-makers, to hip designers of…
Website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube Baconfest Chicago is pleased to welcome aboard our new friends from the country that gave us Neil Young and Ice Hockey (among many other great things). Labatt Blue is joining us as a Beer Sponsor for Baconfest Chicago on April…
Over these last six years, we've seen a lot of bacon come and a lot of bacon go. There have been dishes that amazed us with their technical prowess and nuanced complexity. There have been dishes that moved us with…
Bacon and Vodka - always a great match. Baconfest Chicago is pleased to welcome Tito's Handmade Vodka as a Sponsor. They'll be sampling their tasty vodka in a cocktail to the Bacon loving masses on April 25/26. Tito's is terrific!…
Hello Bacon Nation: We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Bacon Poetry Contest. Congratulations to Angela Allan. Her piece Bringin' the Bacon Home has been selected as winner by the BFC Literary Panel. We’re pleased to award her with…
If you live in Chicago, you know the Wirtz name. This pre-eminent family has done amazing things for our city. Last year, they brought the Stanley Cup home with an astounding display of Blackhawk prowess. This year, they're also…
Greetings Bacon Nation (and more specifically, all those with tickets to Baconfest Chicago on April 25/26), We've said it before and we'll say it again: Baconfest Chicago is NOT merely a celebration of Bacon-gluttony, (though yes, that's undeniably the huge…
Bacon Nation, Loyalty and seniority must be rewarded, and we at Baconfest Chicago are so thrilled to welcome Pabst Blue Ribbon back for their fifth straight year at Baconfest. They've been with us since back in the days of the…