EASTON PA – At the PA Bacon Fest on Saturday (Nov. 4, 2023), there were dishes you’d normally expect. Bacon macaroni and cheese. Pork belly grilled on a skewer. For those on a budget, bacon-wrapped sausages (at top).
Among dozens of vendor booths that lined streets in downtown Easton PA, though, one that attracted many gawkers was the place selling bacon cannoli. Forget a traditional pastry shell for the Italian dessert. Its sweet cream filling was instead pumped into a cylindrical bacon exterior. They were served as fast as they could be made; workers (above) created hundreds by the hour.
Others were all beef, but topped with bacon thicker than the burger itself.
If bacon’s your thing – the aroma, the taste, and the likelihood that it can be used as an ingredient in almost anything from a dinner entrée to facial cream (no kidding) – then Easton was your place to be this weekend. The PA Bacon Fest, an annual event ranked among the top five of its kind in the country, continued through Sunday (Nov. 5).
It’s billed as “two days of grease, love, and happiness.” Travels With The Post made the hour-long, 50-mile journey there via Routes 663 and 309, and Interstate 78.
The stages also featured cooking demonstrations and a bacon-eating contest. How fast can you chow down a pound?
All photos by Travels With The Post
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