The Munchies: The cookbooks and food market that Joe McNamee rates most this year
The Munchies chooses the top food books and food market of the year.
Niamh ‘Eat Like a Girl’ Shields’ utterly joyous ( EatLikeAGirl.com) is a porcine paean to the pleasures of eating porky products, a multiplicity of inventive bacon-centric recipes, beginning with Brunch (her commendably civilised preference to early rising asceticism of breakfast) that includes Bacon Bloody Mary, followed by Bacon Bites, Feelgood Comfort Food, Feeding Friends and Bacon BBQ. Even brief cameos from other proteins, beef, chicken and fish, see bacon playing a crucial role. Salty meets sugar in Bacon is Sweet, as Candied Bacon Fudge is followed by a deliciously sinful array of salty-sweet treats pairing bacon with chocolate, toffee, ice cream, caramel popcorn, and even marshmallows. It concludes with a home curing primer and a Bacon ‘pantry’, homemade standbys to bacon-ify any meal, including bacon jam, the condiment that began Shields’ porky passion, she firmly believing everything improves with bacon.
