Pig Candy - It's a Good Thing

If you don't know what Pig Candy is then just go back to whatever you were doing. But if this delicacy is familiar to you, then today is your lucky day!

At least once a month we conduct an informal survey, (usually late in the afternoon when we're hungry) of the library staff and anyone else who might be standing around about the merits or lack-there-of, of Pig Candy. Usually, we all answer about the same way, "oh, I wouldn't make it, but I would probably try it if someone else made it." Well, today someone else is making it and it is none other than Martha Stewart herself, the Goddess of All Things Good. Oh sure, she doesn't call it Pig Candy, she calls it Brown Sugar Glazed Bacon - la dee dah - but fans of Jill Conner Browne and her Sweet Potato Queens will not be fooled. "Hey, Martha just because you add a pinch of pepper doesn't change the fact that this is Pig Candy, and you have given it a big thumbs up." It's the official "good things" decree we have been waiting for.

So, if you can't catch Martha today you can find the recipe for Pig Candy on page 120 of The Sweet Potato Queens' Big Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner) by Jill Conner Browne. Or, you can just call the library. We all know it by heart, not that we would ever make it ourselves, but if someone were to bring us some , we would probably try it.