I was stuffed full of home-cured bacon and fresh eggs from the breakfast he'd made in the house his father built.

We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi.

Gravlax is home-cured and served in a crepe with caper cream cheese.

Crabmeat mousse wrapped in home-cured salmon is the opener.

The eclectic menu includes soup of smoked chicken, home-cured salmon and goat cheese with fresh vegetables.

The specialty here is home-cured sardine fillets.

Oysters cognac suffered from the same overabundance of salt, while home-cured gravlax had no taste at all.

"Only local or home-cured salami is risky," Fisher explains, "but it's something to consider when traveling abroad.

It took a courageous diner to order home-cured gravlax and veal terrine with black-eyed peas.

Tissue-paper-thin, home-cured gravlax competes as best appetizer.

(Sometimes the giveaway is home-cured salmon, or duck-liver terrine.)

On my last night at the cave he cooked a marvelous omeleteggs, tomato, green pimentoes, onions, sausages and home-cured ham.

Chester got handed eggs, an apple pie, a chunk of home-cured ham, and a pouch of pipe tobacco.

And save the Boar's Head for a ham and cheese sandwich - what you want in a hero is the taste of home-cured meats.

Appetizers are extraordinary and include home-cured gravlax, saute of wild mushrooms, and buttery light blinis with salmon roe.

When you ordered a BLT, you got home-cured bacon on homemade bread with just-picked lettuce and tomatoes from the organic garden.

The bacon came in gre thick slices and was obviously home-cured; it took Yeag back to the smokehouse on the Nebraska farm where he' grown up.

Prsut is a smoked ham that is home-cured in the bora, a dry winter wind that blows from the mountains through passes down to the sea.

We opted for white asparagus served with a tangy mustard emulsion, as well as a pair of flavorful terrines accompanied by home-cured garlic and cornichons.

He filled himself happily with two fried eggs, thick slices of home-cured bacon, and hot flat Welshcakes, like miniature pan-cakes flecked with currants.

The snack consisted of sandwiches of home-cured ham with cheese, glasses of fresh milk, and rich lemon pie, frothy with meringue.

With the ease of much practice, Bruno ignited the home-grown, home-cured weeds in the pipe's ceramic bowl, and drew a puff of their smoke into his mouth.

By contrast, home-cured smoked salmon with a single pancake is smooth and unctuous, its vivid flavor helped along by capers, crème fraîche and cherry tomatoes.

Items on the current bill of fare include white bean and ham soup; home-cured gravlax salad; oysters on the half shell with anchovy toast, and onion tart.

The ham and cheese in the other starter, grilled proscuitto and fresh mozzarella in a balsamic vinaigrette ($6.95), contained homemade cheese and home-cured meat.