After a mouthwatering, gut-wrenching six-month wait, Benton’s smoked country bacon is back at The Wine & Cheese Place. “The smokiest bacon you will get!” said Wine & Cheese’s Paul Hayden. Smoked in eastern Tennessee using an old-fashioned wood stove, Benton’s is serious bacon. And it’s seriously hard to find, in part because of demand from foodie meccas such as Momofuku restaurants in New York.
Hayden has Benton’s bacon for $8.99 a pound at the Clayton store this very minute and expects it at the Rock Hill location on Saturday. “It is hard to say how long it will last,” he said. “I hope a week, but you never know.”
This article appears in Feb 1-28, 2009.