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Candied bacon seems to be very popular at the moment. It is popping up all over the place.

• The Boston Globe just published a recipe for making candied bacon with brown sugar and orange juice.
• A few weeks ago I wrote about Brick 29 in Nampa, Idaho, which features a really fantastic BLT made with caramelized bacon.
• I also recently highlighted a recipe for maple dijon glazed bacon that I found at Nook and Pantry.
• There was also my own experimentation with caramelized bacon a couple months ago. My brother and I coated strips of bacon with brown sugar that we then cooked on the grill.
• Here's a link to another recipe for candied bacon that was posted on Epicurious earlier this year.
• And a quick Google search for "candied bacon" produces hundreds of other results such as this and this and this and this. Flavoring the candied bacon with pepper flakes or mustard is a popular variation.

Emeril deserves some credit for originally pushing the concept a couple years ago with his cayenne-candied bacon.

Seems like candied bacon is finally getting the respect it deserves.

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