There is a contest for a from-scratch BLT on Michael Ruhlmann's blog:
http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2009 ... lenge.htmlBake your own bread, grow your own lettuce and tomato, make your own mayo, cure your own bacon and photograph it (extra credit for grinding wheat, raising pigs, wild yeast). Best three photos will get one of his books signed in bacon fat.
What is patriotism, but the love of good things we ate in our childhood?
-- Lin Yutang