Making your own bacon at home is easier than you might think, and the results are far superior to anything you can buy at the ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Curing meat is an ancient technique that was passed down through the centuries and brought to ...

For the best English breakfast, always buy sausages with a high meat content. For the bacon, choose between back or streaky, smoked or unsmoked bacon; generally, dry-cure has the best flavour.

Bacon was an important food for travellers; heavy salting preserved the meat from 'going off', so it could be used for long sea voyages. Harris' of Calne developed the Wiltshire cure but several ...