Eight bacon "hacks" : http://lifehacker.com/5837068/8-essential-bacon-hacks (best hack: bacon cups). OK, one more bacon hack: homemade bacon salt: http://lifehacker.com/5838933/make-your-own-bacon-salt . OK, last bacon hack, a Cooks Illustrated method for using bacon paste (their term, not mine) to help chicken kabobs: http://www.101cookingfortwo.com/2011/04/bacon-coated-chicken-kab...

Another fun hack (or a disaster) - sous-vide cooking salmon in your sink: http://lifehacker.com/5830856/cook-salmon-sous+vide-in-your-kitc...

A nice roundup of the uses of sorghum in modern cuisine and drink: http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/09/southern_spell_so...

Does liking quality microbrew mean you're an anti-union, neoliberal? http://crookedtimber.org/2011/08/19/small-beer/ (quick answer: almost certainly not).

Math, eggs, and getting your boil on: http://lifehacker.com/5833410/the-egg-cooking-calculator-uses-ma... . Source in Norwegian. Really. "Initial temperature of the egg" is "Eggets starttemperatur."

On a more serious note, Nestle's chairman is "skeptical" of organic food. Of course, it might be partially because Nestle is making money hand over fist on high-impact chemically-based agriculture. No word on whether these farming techniques that we're supposedly dependent on are themselves even remotely sustainable themselves. FC effectively rips in to the failures of the anti-organic arguments here. http://www.fastcompany.com/1779059/nestle-chairmans-attacks-on-o...

Finally, here's a grilled cheese martini, offered without comment:
http://boingboing.net/2011/08/19/grilled-cheese-martinis.html

Cross-posted at Confused Cuisine: http://confusedcuisine.posterous.com/food-links-bacon-hacking-beer-politics-more-p