Bacon

Many home cooks and even professionals in Greece tend to leave their bacon soft, just cooking it enough to add a bit of color. However, the ultimate goal should be to achieve perfectly crispy, caramelized bacon with a golden hue—a staple in countries where bacon plays a significant role in their culinary culture.

The Bulgarian division of the German company Lidl introduces new higher standards for the quality of the sausage from their own brand that they offer. All sausages from the Pikok, Baroni and Dulano brands, as well as from the "Rodna Stryha" product line, are now produced without the use of mechanically separated meat, which reduces the use of improvers and thickeners, the company said.

A short while ago Iakovos Apergis, the Tzaneio Hospital's head cook, arrived at the Piraeus health facility carrying two big baking trays of pizza he had prepared the night before. The pizza was for the patients in the children's psychiatric ward.

"These kids can eat almost anything. Why not give them something they really like?" said Apergis.

In an effort promote its new Bacon 3-Way Burger, a fast food company has created a series of commercials starring three oiled up blondes in bikinis engaged in a pseudo menage a trois.

Five paintings by British artist Francis Bacon worth an estimated 30 million euros have been stolen from the Madrid home of their owner, El Pais reported March 13.

World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes a report on the dangers of eating processed meats and ranked processed meat as ‘carcinogenic to humans’, the highest of five possible rankings, shared with alcohol, asbestos, arsenic and cigarettes.