When it is made with carne seca, it's dry and jerkylike, served like bacon bits on scrambled eggs ... Sadly, the recipe for this wonderful jerky stew is a closely guarded secret.

We tried two new meat snacks that arrived in our mailboxes, and unsurprisingly, bacon jerky beat out some chewy new meat sticks. The bacon jerky, from Oberto, has a refreshingly short list of ...