{"id":3666,"date":"2014-08-10T07:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2014-08-10T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T11:39:17","slug":"stay-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/stay-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"“Stay with quality…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….quality will always sustain you.”\u00a0 That was the advice this butcher’s daddy gave him.\u00a0 Lovely. Here’s a short film that is an ode to country bacon and ham and a man from Virginia who has made it his life’s work.\u00a0 Heavily-salted bacon and ham are not my favorites but I’m not going to quibble with a man so obviously in love with what he does.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29677209<\/a><\/p>\n

Now Thistle Hill bacon and hams are smoke-cured, the old-fashioned way, but there are no nitrates or other additives in our process.\u00a0 Nor do our pigs receive hormones, antibiotics or other drugs as they grow.\u00a0 Finally, they are raised on non-GMO feed.\u00a0 We simply don’t know how to bacon and ham any safer.<\/p>\n

Most of all, we think—just like\u00a0Allan Benton—that it’s the best we’ve ever eaten.\u00a0 If you’re nuts about bacon…we urge you to try ours.\u00a0 Our pigs are raised on acorns, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….quality will always sustain you.”\u00a0 That was the advice this butcher’s daddy gave him.\u00a0 Lovely. Here’s a short film that is an ode to country bacon and ham and a man from Virginia who has made it his life’s work.\u00a0 Heavily-salted bacon and ham are not my favorites but I’m not going to quibble with a man so obviously in love with what he does. http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29677209 Now Thistle Hill bacon and hams are smoke-cured, the old-fashioned way, but there are no nitrates or other additives in our process.\u00a0 Nor do our pigs receive hormones, antibiotics or other drugs as they grow.\u00a0 Finally, they are raised on non-GMO feed.\u00a0 We simply don’t know how to bacon and ham any safer. Most of all, we think—just like\u00a0Allan Benton—that it’s the best we’ve ever eaten.\u00a0 If you’re nuts about bacon…we urge you to try ours.\u00a0 Our pigs are raised on acorns, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacon","category-ham","category-pigs-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}