• The atlantic magazine on increasing popularity of goat. Yum. http://bit.ly/ZAvYI #

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• We’ve been so busy working on Artomatic we almost forgot that Beer & Bourbon is tomorrow @ Nat’l Harbor http://tinyurl.com/mwtb2a #
• R/T @BaconUnwrapped Bacon chocolate pancakes http://bacn.me/7wl #

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I was perusing BaconUnwrapped’s twitter feed and came across a reference to a new restaurant being opened in Atlanta:

A team of Atlanta restaurateurs are planning to open a high-end restaurant that would be America’s first all-bacon establishment.

Called “Bacon-alia,” the eatery would feature a wide variety of bacon-based appetizers, entrees and deserts. “Bacon-alia is a concept whose time has come,” says chef/owner James Gammon. “With bacon mania sweeping America, it’s both a beloved comfort food and the ultimate indulgence.”

A google search didn’t reveal any additional info so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how this works out.

• It’s amazing how many of our loyal readers emailed us immediately after the SlimJim Factory explosion today http://tinyurl.com/m657fb #

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• Did we ever mention that this is where we get our tasty chicken eggs? http://www.daviscreekfarm.com/ Now we have. Yum. #

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It’s my fault the long-promised photo essay about the Thai pork candy has yet to appear. I can’t seem to function properly with this borrowed computer. Soon. Very soon.

In the meantime, enjoy this article from today’s Washington Post Home section about the rising popularity of chickens in the DC area. Home instead of Food, you ask? Indeed, for today’s article explains how you can keep chickens in the DC area (and talks about how you can’t if you’re in DC).

In “Hot Chicks - Legal or Not, Chickens Are the Chic New Backyard Addition,” Adrian Higgins writes:

“Chickens are America’s cool new pet,” said Dave Belanger, publisher of the magazine Backyard Poultry. When he launched it three years ago, “we were thinking 15 to 20 thousand” subscriptions, he said. The print run for the bimonthly is now 100,000.

Belanger’s magazine is published in Wisconsin, where five years ago chicken activists in Madison succeeded in getting the city council to reverse a ban on chicken coops. Madison’s ordinance is typical of other cities’. You can raise chickens for eggs, not meat; they must be enclosed in a coop or run; and it’s strictly a hen party: Roosters who crow day and night are prohibited.

I’ve wanted to get more chickens for years, but in Alexandria we’re just too close to our neighbors houses for it to be legal. The article captures the silliness of life with chickens quite well. Adrian Higgins writes, “So what’s it like to keep chickens? From what I gather, they are exasperating, dumb, funny, beautiful and so hopelessly ill-equipped to survive on their own that you have to love them.”

In high school one of my chores was to try to find where Greta laid her morning egg before one of the horses did. She had an affinity for the feedboxes and some of the horses really loved a bit of scrambled egg with their breakfast. And who wouldn’t? Fresh eggs are fantastic.

Now we buy our eggs from the farmer’s market - either the Del Ray Farmer’s market (sorry, can’t remember the farmer’s name - have to check this week) or from the nice EcoFriendly Foods folks at the Arlington Farmer’s Market. Buy good eggs. Seriously, you won’t regret it.

• Haha. All kinds of strange traffic to the meatblog cause the Meat Puppets dropped a new album today. #
• Forgot how much fun the Food Timeline is - RT @racingpaperFood history miscellany: mealtimes through the ages http://tr.im/l7px #

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• The Atlantic Food blog answers the immortal question you never knew you should ask,“What Do Fresh Turkey Eggs Taste Like?” #

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• This weekend @ MeatBlogHQ: @fishinnards made an elaborate porkbelly Thai dish that was essentially PigCandy. A photo essay to be posted soon #
• latest tastes - Rogue Chocolate Stout, Two Hearted Ale & tonight: Bison Chocolate Stout http://icanhaz.com/bisonchoc #

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