Good day, pork lovers—welcome to International Bacon Day, the one 24-hour-period per year when we honor all things perfectly porcine.
In honor of this important day, I wanted to introduce you to Nueske’s, a smallish, artisanal producer about an hour outside of Green Bay in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, an eensie town of 1,200 people, a number easily eclipsed by the amount of cows in residence.
I stumbled across them (okay, scratch that—I followed the intense aroma of bacon) at New York’s Fancy Food Show at the Javits Center a few months back, eying the golden trophies they’d just won for their smoked wild cherrywood uncured bacon.
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