bacon
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Rite
The Dunmow Flitch is awarded to a married couple who can swear before a jury that they have not regretted the marriage for a year and a day, a custom recorded in Essex since the twelfth century and still held. The prize is a side of bacon, and Chaucer refers to it, which means the joke about marriage was already old in 1390. Pork was the affordable celebration meat, so the reward for a good marriage was the meat of an ordinary feast.
The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)
Connections
12 bonds · 12 sourcedSet in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for brussels sprouts in the 2008 edition.
Hoppin' john, the rice cooked in the pork fat.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for bacon in the 2008 edition.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for bacon in the 2008 edition.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for bacon in the 2008 edition.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for peas, in general in the 2008 edition.
One is an ingredient of the other
Toasted into the farofa, not served beside it.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for bacon in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for avocados in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for bacon in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for dates in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for cheese, cheddar in the 2008 edition.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.
The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.
Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.
The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.
Studio Culinar-E, "bacon", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/bacon
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.