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• n  back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
• n  English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
• n  English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

• That's the state of your bacon circa 2009.
• This summer, Americans are going the whole hog, as a new appreciation of nose-to-tail eating has foodies caught up in a make-your-own-bacon craze.
• When George Clooney came to my house for dinner and I gave him a chocolate bacon bar for dessert, he suggested serving it to vegans and not telling them the source of the salty .

• Bacon
• Roger Bacon
• Francis Bacon
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Baron Verulam
• 1st Baron Verulam
• Viscount St. Albans

News & Articles

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• Bacon’s Lover Triptych Fetches $17.3 Million in London
  A Francis Bacon triptych of the artist’s favorite female model sold tonight in London for 11.3 million pounds ($17.3 million).
  June 26, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Francis Bacon’s Works Steal the Sale at Sotheby’s in London
  Two paintings by Francis Bacon were the stars of Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art in London on Wednesday night, when 68 works, including ones by David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky and John Currin, were also for sale.
  June 26, 2013 - New York Times
• ArtsBeat: Francis Bacon’s Works Steal the Sale at Sotheby’s in London
  Two paintings by Francis Bacon were the stars of Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art in London on Wednesday night, when 68 works, including ones by David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky and John Currin, were also for sale.        
  June 26, 2013 - International Herald Tribune