I’ve been hearing about Benton’s country hams and bacon for years now and have promised myself that whenever I make it to the area I’ll stop in and try some. Now I find out you can order it online and have it shipped to your home. I’m debating on it… With shipping it looks like 4 lbs of bacon will work out to $10 per lb or close enough for government work…A bit pricey for a daily bacon fix but twice as much as the supermarket bacon I’ve been using for years.
Benton Family Cure from Jennifer Davick on Vimeo.
CURED from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo.
Tiny Tenn. smokehouse earns big rep with ‘time and patience’ By MERIDITH FORD
Allan Benton drives a 1994 Ford truck with a covered bed, and when he places the key in the ignition and fires it up, the air conditioner blows out air steeped in smoke — the kind of smoke laced with hickory from a smokehouse.
Benton is considered perhaps the greatest ham and bacon smoker in the United States — at least that’s what nationally acclaimed chefs such as John Fleer, the former executive chef of Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., will tell you.
“I can talk to you about Allan,” Fleer says, “but understand that the conversation will border on hero worship.”
via Lifestyle | ajc.com.
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Thanks to Jason Kottke for the links
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