Leon Isaac Kennedy was born on January 1, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Lone Wolf McQuade (1983), Body and Soul (1981) and Penitentiary (1979). He has been married to Lolita Armbrister since 1995. He was previously married to Jayne Kennedy.
The reason for this is that bacon is cured meat. There are two reasons not to eat raw meat: taste and food safety. Taste is individual, some people are OK with the taste and eat raw meat as long as they can find a source of meat fresh enough (think sashimi, carpaccio, steak tartare). Food safety is not a problem with bacon. The process of turning pork to bacon includes salt and smoke.
American bacon is what this page is all about: Cured and smoked pork side (1 part meat to 2 parts fat) or belly (1:3). Some commercial American bacons are wet cured by brining or injecting, and almost all use sodium nitrite as a preservative and coloring agent. Some are dry cured with a rub.nce you have the basic recipe down, you can vary the ingredients to make a flavor profile to suit your taste. It is a simple two-step process: (1) Curing, and (2) smoking. Commodity American bacon is usually from the belly and chest where the ratio of meat to fat can be 1:3.