Today we're covering how to smoke pork belly, a fatty cut of pork that's the raw material for bacon before it’s cured, smoked, and sliced. “Pork belly is the ultimate meat—fatty, tender ...

These smoked pork belly burnt ends give you the same flavors of classic burnt ends but with the savory, crispy addition of pork! Pork belly is the same cut of meat that bacon is made of!

While smoked meats are big a focus ... But again, you don’t go to Pork Belly’s expecting to get scratch-made biscuits and gravy, thick-cut bacon, and seven different styles of benedicts.” ...

Most British recipes for Boston baked beans just use a piece of pork belly, but we think it needs some salted or smoked meat to counteract the sweetness, so we include bacon or pancetta.

I enjoyed a meal similar to this smoked bacon hock salad (pictured above) in rural France some years ago and more recently was reminded of it at a locavore lunch at Dough Bros Restaurant in Hamilton.

While smoked meats are big a focus ... But again, you don’t go to Pork Belly’s expecting to get scratch-made biscuits and gravy, thick-cut bacon, and seven different styles of benedicts.” ...