I grew up in the south, where bacon is a religion, but doing an episode devoted entirely to bacon never enter my mind until we got each contributor’s list of the best things they’d ever eaten – and I noticed that there was a bacon-flavored, bacon-infused, bacon-loaded dish on practically every one. Fact is, across the board, bacon was mentioned more often than any other ingredient, including chocolate….and although our contributors didn’t get around to a few of my own favorites (so much bacon, so little time), when you consider the bacon baklava at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, the dark chocolate dipped bacon strips at Roni-Sue’s Chocolates in Manhattan, and the crème brulee flavored with white corn and a mound of brown-sugar candied bacon at Tilth in Seattle, it actually would have been possible to not only do an entire show devoted to bacon, but to DESSERTS made with bacon.
Three of the dishes featured in the show (the maple bacon donuts, the bacon flatbread, and the salumi cone) are from restaurants in San Francisco, a fact which didn’t surprise me (since the Bay Area is home to Bacon Camp – and since every vegetarian I know seems to agree that the one thing they miss most about not eating meat is bacon). Nor was it lost on Rahul Nair. The desire to taste-test the dishes seen on the show (especially those in his own town), motivated Nair, the self-billed “car crazy tech geek” who works in the Yahoo! Research Lab in Berkeley, to develop this very cool mashup map of all of the places featured in the series so far, with (I’m guessing, hoping…) updates coming weekly.
Road Trip!!
[...] call from David Hoffman who produces the show thanking me for making this mashup and they have now posted it on the official The Best Thing I Ever Ate [...]
Hey…just wanted to say that I think TBTIEA is a BRILLIANT show. I can’t believe FN didn’t come up with it sooner. It is so simple yet so addictive. BRAVO!
Enough with the bacon talk. Tell me where I can get the best bánh mì. Plz.
The Lobster enchilada at Cafe Max is the BEST THING I EVER HAD IN MY MOUTH E V E R!!!
Bill, give a location as to where you are and that will help. NY? San Fran? Iowa?
Well, we got inspired a lot and start to travel around all the hotspots , starting LA, because we live here. ( By the way it`s the idea for a new show: The Best Thing I Ever Ate:The Eyes Of The Witness)))))) We went to Father`s Office and had that Father`s Burger, wich was claimed to be sooo good and, well, sorry - nothing special, besides the price ( i just think that 16 dollars for 1 burger and fries a little too much) and the waiting time - 15 min. Well, the place is fancy and packed - so may be that`s how it`s supposed to be, but the burger is nothing more then a good burger. That`s it. I defenately ate better ones. But it is of course In My Humble Opinion. Would like to heart from those who`s been somewhere too - so we can share the experience.
love this show! it takes the stigma out of Lard and I LOVE THAT!
Lard..its what "was" for dinner..
Don't be stupid. "Praise The Lard" That is not funny and should not be used. Have some respect you heathen
Put up a blog entry for the pizza episode please! I need to know where Marc Summers ate his best pizza!
The pizza Summers chowed down on was from Osteria in Philadelphia. I was in the area visiting relatives earlier this month and went there because of this show! And (heck, yes!) it lived up to the hype.
Funny enough, Arby's makes a really good BLT with plenty of peppered bacon and on homemade wheat bread. You don't have to empty the wallet for it either.
I took a look at that map you posted and its awesome, but I just came across this site that allows you to search multiple sites for places that have been featured on a bunch of shows.
May be worth checking it out: http://www.famousfoodfinder.com
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