Studying Bacon Has Led One Smithsonian Scholar to New Insights on the Daily Life of Enslaved African-Americans

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, during the first week of June, an annual event unfolds that honors the culinary delights and history of perhaps the nation’s most beloved food—bacon.

Bacon has long been an American staple of nutrition and sustenance that dates to the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors with the introduction of pigs to the hemisphere, but it has never created more excitement than it does today.