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Everything Tastes Better with Bacon is a book about cooking with bacon written by Sara Perry, a food commentator and columnist for The Oregonian. Her editor at Chronicle Books suggested bacon as a cookbook subject. Bacon's popularity and usage was increasing, but Perry believed that a paucity of recipes would make writing the book difficult. Recalling her fondness for honey-baked ham, she combined sugar and bacon to create dishes and realized that bacon could be used to add seasoning in flavoring dishes, including salads and pastas. The book includes recipes for bacon-flavored dishes and desserts. It was published in the United States in 2002 and in a French language edition in 2004 in Montreal. It received mainly positive reviews and its recipes were selected for inclusion in The Best American Recipes 2003–2004. The St. Petersburg Times classed it as among the "most interesting and unique cookbooks" published, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette highlighted it in the article "Favorite Cookbooks for 2002" and The Denver Post included it in a list of best cookbooks of 2002. A review in The Toronto Star criticized a lack of creativity in the choice of recipes. (Full article...)

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Irish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Seamus Heaney (pictured) dies at the age of 74.
For the first time, Saudi Arabia enacts laws against domestic violence.
U.S. Army officer Nidal Malik Hasan is sentenced to death for killing thirteen people in the Fort Hood shooting.
In cricket, the Ashes series concludes with England defeating Australia in the series.
A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills more than thirty people.
U.S. soldier Robert Bales is sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of sixteen Afghan civilians in the Kandahar massacre.
Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

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On this day...

August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957) and Trinidad and Tobago (1962)

1813 – Peninsular War: At the Battle of San Marcial, the Spanish Army of Galicia under Manuel Alberto Freire turned back Nicolas Soult's last major offensive against Arthur Wellesley's allied army.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols' body was found on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row, London, allegedly the first victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (depiction pictured).
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia, one of the two major Australian political parties, was founded to replace the United Australia Party.
1982 – Anti-government demonstrations were held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement, which allowed the Solidarity trade union to be established.
1998 – North Korea claimed to have successfully launched Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite, although no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch.

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Saint Catherine's Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Saint Catherine, Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula. Established between 548 and 565 AD, it is recognised by UNESCO as one of the oldest working Christian monasteries.

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