I don’t live in Chicago. Is there a Baconfest in my city?
There may be. Baconfest Chicago 2009 is not the only Baconfest in the world. Since we started our planning, we’ve found an unofficial network of baconfests that have existed for decades. We’re not even the first Baconfest in Chicago – last year, the people at Risque apparently threw a Baconfest. There is a Bacon Fest in Des Moines, Atlanta and Smithfield, UT. A related category of event, called BaconCamp, has been held in San Francisco and future baconcamps are planned for Vancouver, Seattle and Miami. Scratch the surface and you’ll see that Baconfest is part of a global bacon community. Join up! Um, I’m Jewish. Excellent question. We think our Facebook friend Paul Libman had some deep insight into Baconfest when he posted this Haiku to our group: Bacon seduces all that is Jewish in me. Mom rolls in her grave. The Midrash explains the relationship between Baconfest and Judaism when it discusses the role of the Apikoros – or heretic. Derived from the Greek epicurus (as in Epicurean!), i
