Fun Home Evening

For Family Home Evening we mixed things up a bit and I grabbed a book I got for my birthday from my brother Mike called Food, A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan.  I randomly opened the book and we read a chapter on meats.  It was a fantastic commentary on bologna and how it is the bottom tier of meat.  Steak is at the top and bologna is at the bottom.  Spam doesn't qualify as meat thus cementing bologna in the position it holds as the worst of all meats.  It was such a fun chapter that we had to continue with the next chapter on bacon.  This was perhaps the most enjoyable of the three chapters we ended up reading tonight.  Bacon is the candy of meats.  Is there really anything more enjoyable than bacon?  The bacongodmother can make a blah meal into something magical simply by sprinkling bacon bits on the dish.  We finished it up with the next chapter on pastrami and deli sandwiches.  Jim Gaffigan is a tremendous talent and I had my 8, 11 and 15 year old kids glued to every word.  I highly recommend reading Food, A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan.  Read it aloud to your kids, they'll love it.  I certainly cannot pull off a Jim Gaffigan voice but I like to picture myself in all black standing in front of my crowd of three delivering this dialogue like the man himself.  I certainly need to find myself a bacon scarf.  I think with one of those I could go as Gaffigan for halloween this year.  It might be worth it.  I'll have to work on some bacon and hot pocket material.