On this episode of Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor is talking all about lard. When you were growing up, do you remember your family collecting bacon fat drippings in a jar? Nicole talks with Hank Will of Grit Magazine about the advantages of eating food that is cooked in lard. Also, Alana Chernila of The Homemade Pantry chats with Nicole about making foods at home, including tortillas and yogurt. Hear about the benefits of keeping your freezer organized! This program has been brought to you by Edwards.

"Leaf lard is a very dense, very pure deposit of fat that typically accumulates in the kidney area...when you render it, it comes out very pure and without flavor." --Hank Will on Hot Grease

"In terms of cost, there are a lot of foods that save so much money [when you make them at home] because when we're buying food at the store, we're paying for packaging, we're paying for transport." --Alana Chernila on Hot Grease

Jimmy Carbone speaks with Ken Albala, food historian at the University of the Pacific, at the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference. Tune in to hear them chat about Lent and lard.

It's time for Camp Bacon! Tune in to this week's episode of Cutting the Curd as Anne Saxelby chats with Ari Weinzwieg, founder of Zingerman's and creator of Camp Bacon, a fundraiser in Ann Arbor, MI for Southern Foodways Alliance that brings together Bacon-Lovers, -Makers, Cooks, Curers and anyone who likes to learn, eat and enjoy cured and smoked pork belly. Camp Bacon is four days of all things bacon — eating, learning, listening, tasting and talking; a pork centric party that features everything from poetry to pigs. Camp Bacon convenes on the evening of Thursday May 30, moves through a bacon-laden meal to a bacon tinged music to a day long delight of bacon learning and tasting, concluding on Sunday June 2 with a bacon street fair filled with bacon tasting, bacon crafts, bacon games and all around bacon fun. Find out more here and tune in for bacon goodness! This program was sponsored by Academie Opus Caseus.

"Old breeds will almost always produce a better bacon becuase the flavor of the meat is more interesting." [16:00]

--Ari Weinzweig on Cutting the Curd