We'll never understand why certain things weren't invented at the same time: the telephone and the answering machine, for example, or TiVo and TV.
That thought occured to us when we learned that bacon jerky has just been unleashed upon an eager world. Hello! Bacon and jerky are two of the earliest forms of preserved meat -- they even have vaguely similar shapes. The leap from one to the other strikes us as a no-brainer: Dry the fat out of bacon and voila! Yet Wikipedia entry's entry on jerky l
WhatKnot/FlickrBeer goes with the Fourth of July like hot buttered rum at Christmas or a sazerac on Bourbon Street. All those thick burgers, molten enchiladas, smoky platters of barbecue, and big slabs of pepperoni pizza cry out for a tall, cool beaker of suds in all its thirst-quenching glory.
The Bay Area is packed with brewpubs where you can toast Dr. Seuss, Jackson Pollock, Miles Davis, César Chavez, Jonas Salk, Ava Gardner, and other all-American worthies with a stein of beer and a bowl
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