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I'm going to admit: I don't really like bacon anymore. I know too that it is bad for me, and despite its flavour, my good judgement has won out.
I will still eat it under certain circumstances, such as in classic recipes that require it. For example, I would eat it in coq au vin. I've never had it, but I really want to try it. God, it's chicken, wine, mushrooms, and lardons (which is basically bacon taken directly from the rendered fat on the pig's back...the French are geniuses, I'm telling you).
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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