The bacon festival

I love food. I love cooking it and I love eating it. This bacon festival in Iowa got my attention. The annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato. Other events scheduled included lectures about bacon and an eating competition. The festival was preceded earlier in the week with a bacon queen pageant (I have my doubts about this) and a pig pardon (seriously they actually pardon a pig) by Gov Terry Branstad. Festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds, who officially started the event just a few years ago, said it is become the largest bacon showcase in the world.