If you could make your own bacon, smoked salmon, and smoked cheese at home — stuff that normally costs a fortune at specialty shops — by spending just a few hours setting up a cold-smoking apparatus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kuvona/Getty Images For much of human history, the ability to preserve your food was often the difference between life and death.

Cured meat always seems like it came straight from the food factory, complete with plastic packaging. Italian cold cuts, Spanish-style chorizo (as opposed to the uncured Mexican kind), and bacon (even ...

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love bacon. (But I also don’t know that many people in general, and if someone I encounter doesn’t like bacon, I usually erase them from my memory with alcohol and ...