Home-Made Bacon

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Cathy Barrow, This Little Piggy Stayed Home. New York Times, Mar 28, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/2 ... your-own-bacon.html

Note:
(a) bacon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon
(in the United States, where it is almost always prepared from pork belly; Historically, "ham" and "bacon" referred to different cuts of meat that were brined or packed identically, often together in the same barrel; The Virginia House-Wife (1824), thought to be one of the earliest American cookbooks, gives no indication that bacon is [sic; was] ever not smoked)
(b) View only photos in
pork belly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_belly
(c)

(i) cure
(vt): "to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use <fish cured with salt>"
(vi): "a : to undergo a curing process"
www.m-w.com
(ii) Curing (food preservation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing_(food_preservation)
(d) charcuterie (n; French, literally, pork-butcher's shop):
"a delicatessen specializing in dressed meats and meat dishes; also : the products sold in such a shop"

(i) dress (vt): "to prepare for use or service; specifically : to prepare for cooking or for the table <dress a salad>"

You know salad dressing--the seasoning you sprinkle on the salad?
(ii) meat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat
(sectin 6.3 Dressing and cutting  After exsanguination, the carcase is dressed; that is, the head, feet, hide (except hogs and some veal), excess fat, viscera and offal are removed, leaving only bones and edible muscle")
(e) Chicharrón
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicharrón
(f) curing salt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing_salt
(Prague powder #1 or pink salt contains 93.75% table salt and 6.25% sodium nitrite. Prague powder #2 contains sodium nitrate in addition to sodium nitrite)
(g) See photos in
rock candy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_candy
(also called rock sugar)
(h) Illicium verum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicium_verum
(commonly called Star anise; a small native evergreen tree of northeast Vietnam and southwest China)