EC: Meet Sugar Bob, the Creator of Smoked Maple Syrup
Robert “Bob” Hausslein sells heresy in a bottle. His Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind Smoked Maple Syrup—paper thimbles of which he proffered at the sprawling New York Fancy Foods trade show—is, in a word, challenging. Dark, viscous and infused with the acrid funk of a charred forest, the syrup dares you to love it.
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EC: How Journalist Jon Ronson Does Breakfast
Jon Ronson is the gonzo journalist responsible for medium-spanning projects like The Men Who Stare at Goats (a book, a documentary, and also a fictionalized, George Clooney-starring film) and Frank (a film, and a book about the story that inspired the film).
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EC: A New Bacon Critic Consults the Experts on What It’s Like to Have the ‘Greatest Job in Journalism’
I had two instinctive reactions when I got the call that, yes, I was going to be Extra Crispy’s official Bacon Critic. The first was to do a bunch of fist pumping and some mild 1984-era Van Halen jump kicks in my living room, a burst of pure joy and unabashed victory dancing (which I’m very thankful no one captured on video, or my bacon would be cooked before I even started the job).