Pork Tenderloin – Better with Bacon!

By Debby Goldsmith
For The Family Table, a blog for busy families

I’ve heard it said often that everything is better with butter. With that, I can’t disagree! However, I also like to think that everything (almost) is better with bacon – especially pork tenderloin.

Pork tenderloin is a leaner cut of meat and that’s one of the major reasons it’s so popular. (Quick-cooking is probably a close second.) A few strips of bacon wrapped around a tenderloin can make a good thing even better.

This no-fuss recipe, always a popular one with my family, also works well for a dinner party. It’s just as easy to cook two tenderloins as it is to cook one!

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Leftovers, Revisited

By Sandy Hu

Last month, I cited a Wall Street Journal article about how much food Americans waste. It struck a chord with one of our Special Fork Food Editors, Debby Goldsmith, a veteran food journalist who was Associate Food Director at Good Housekeeping for many years.

Here’s what she wrote:

“I read that WSJ article at the dentist and I just couldn't fathom how or why people are so wasteful with food and everything else. I compost, I burn paper waste; I recycle.

We now have single stream recycling upstate (New York) so everything from newspapers to every number of plastic (the number in the recycle triangle on disposable plastics) except bags goes in the same giant bin and I lug cans and bottles to the supermarket for my 5-cent wild money.

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