My Turn: Forgoing the vice of bacon
Photo credit: Newsday, 2011 / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | There's much to be said about a preoccupation with peanut butter, a staple of the school lunches of yore.
During the relatively tranquil days of pre-World War II Corona, Queens, a wide variety of lovingly prepared foods graced the tables of Italian-American immigrants. Despite the limitations imposed by the Great Depression, most families dined reasonably well, thanks to a remarkable degree of culinary ingenuity.
But bacon, known as lardon, was not a significant staple. Moreover, the butcher shop...
