Peter Stromquist

Category: Ham & Bacon

  • Mr. Allison’s Diner Review – Arlington Heights, IL

    Mr. Allison’s Diner Review One day at Mr. Allison’s Diner Review.  I’m a nut for ham. Good, bad, fake. I love ham. I once went to a restaurant that offered “flights of ham.” Paradise. I have driven the back roads of “ham country” in the US – Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas in search of […]

  • Papa Gs Diner Review – Huntley, IL

    Papa Gs Diner Review – Huntley, IL Papa Gs is an all-day diner located in Huntley, IL, a far distant suburb of Chicago. In the before times, it was one of my regular go-to’s for breakfast out, but I haven’t back in until today. Their service is without fault, the food is terrific, and everything […]

  • Sams Diner Review – Waterford, WI

    Sam’s Diner Review – Waterford, WI There are a few times in my life when I’ve had a plate put in front of me at a restaurant and I’ve sighed and said “this is art.” When/where this has happened, it’s never been dependent on the price or the number of stars, or some fancy name […]

  • Coffee Pot Review – Kenosha, WI

    The Coffee Pot Restaurant in Kenosha is an old-timey diner serving breakfast and lunch food that rocks.

  • Hazels Diner and Bakery Review, Hebron, IL

    Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was convinced I had stumbled upon the best breakfast potatoes in the country. OK, it wasn’t a galaxy, it was a breakfast horseshoe in Springfield, and after breakfast at Hazel’s Diner and Bakery, Springfield has been relegated to second place. Located in the quiet ville of […]

  • Harpers Country Ham Review

    Man I love good ham. OK, I love bad ham, too.  But “country cured” – a dry cure lengthy process with salt, hickory smoked,  that’ll get me everytime. I’ve driven back roads of Missouri, Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentucky in search of small processors. I’d never heard of Harper’s, even tho they’ve been around since […]

  • Crocketts 1875 Breakfast Camp Review – Gatlinburg, TN

    Crocketts 1875 Breakfast Camp I’m big about avoiding tourist traps or “voted best XXX 10 years in a row.” Unless I specifically head out for one, of course, and Crocketts 1875 Breakfast Camp was just one such destination. I was going to be passing near Gatlinburg, and I thought the least I could do to […]

  • Great Value Smoked Ham Lunchmeat Review – A WalMart Product

    I write a lot about ham, it seems.  Because I love it. I love premium hams and have driven background all over the country in search of small processors, and been very successful in Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Missouri. I have quite a few reviews of very expensive ham, as well as very cheap […]

  • Lunch Mate Cooked Ham Review – An Aldi Branded Product

    I have reviewed quite a few products found at Aldi, a global grocery retailer that focuses on value-priced items. They are able to achieve lower costs by largely staying away from big brand names, and instead, creating their own brands and contracting the manufacture and packaging of them to quality co-packers and producers. This product […]

  • Winstons Irish Bacon Review

    When you request bacon in the US, you know what you are going to get. Smoked/cured thin slices of pork belly, with streaks of fat parallel to streaks of delicious meat. Unless you request “Canadian Bacon” which is neither Canadian nor bacon, but very lean sliced pork loin,  cured and smoked. Outside of the US, […]