and carnivals and her owner says she normally behaves herself. clayton: speaks how brave our police officers are. they never know what they are going to have tray traffic stop. i thought he was wearing google glasses. that s going to be the next phase. check in with rick reichmuth. is he outside not even touching the weather because bacon made its appearance. rick: are you kidding me? bacon out here. unique bacon dishes be sure to get your day started right. all feerlted at i venture.com second annual bacon bash here in new york. what can be better than a bacon bash. with us is the executive chef here in new york. bacon at 6:30 in the morning. bacon all the time, actually. rick: that s what we think of bacon nowadays. rick: what are you going to do with bacon and bris kit. bacon on brisket better. it s 16 hours smoked
going to try this since you i ll try it. we re going to get erica s assessment of it. this is how she kicks off every morning. if you want to look like erica, start your morning with a bacon latte. i m curious what this tastes like. it s savory, sweet, but it does have that coffee flavor. you re going to say that, of course. head to the bacon bash if you re here in manhattan, i know mike will be here later. he s the master of ceremonies down there. that s right. $40 to get in. you get $50 off 50% any of the craft beers and you get a bacon shot by going down there as well. thank you, guys. we ll be eating bacon all morning long out here, alisyn. see what you re missing. let me say as the only one of the hosts who has donned a bacon suit, that bacon has fine moves. i think that bacon has better suits than you are. that s some popping bacon right there, all right. thanks so much, guys. meanwhile, coming up, one u.s. city declaring a state of emergency but it hasn t b
of that rain across florida. otherwise, temperatures right now in the gulf, very warm. conducive for tropical storms to develop into the 80 s and the winds are also very light so that will be helping out conditions or bringing conditions that could help out this storm system to develop. we do need the moisture out here, though, so that s some good news across the southeast. we will welcome some rain. however, hopefully the storm does not develop too quickly and produce strong winds. you can see those showers moving over the state of florida. the heaviest stuff remaining off shore. we ll keep an eye on it. clayton? thanks so much, maria. well, bacon is the theme of the morning. we re honoring the first annual bacon bash in new york city. joining us now, erica lunden, vice president of marketing for eye adventure that is producing the big event and jordan endino, the executive chef at little town restaurant here in new york. a bacon bash. mike came off set because he wants to eat m
season it with what? that s the bacon. powder bacon. regular chips with bacon. give a smell. that is powdered bacon. i will agree with that. wow. what you do, all you do is take it, toss it and so now it s essentially like parmesan. erica, you ll be eating bacon all day today at the bacon bash. yeah. there you go. have at it. what about the balls? the balls. colorful melon balls. what does that have to do with bacon? ok, so typically, you know, you take classic italian, you take pruschiutto is wrap it around bacon. my idea was take that same melon and wrap it with invisible bacon. you can add bacon to anything. i m starting to add all of this stuff. once you get it into a powder, you can add it to anything. absolutely anything. you have a bacon latte right here? i took coffee and i cooked that bacon for six hours. all right, erica, you re
manhattan and it s called tommy s lasagna, right? where are you? we re on 18th street between park and irving in gramercy. i really hope that you re watching from the new york city area because today, just a few blocks from here is the very first bacon bash. we re having a bacon bash a few blocks from here. let s go. it starts at noon today. what s the idea? the idea is all vendors serving everything bacon. bacon vodka, bacon sandwiches, bacon candy. everything bacon. what do you have? we have a pork belly meatball slider. ok. so i see these meatballs. those are pork belly meatballs. that s where you get bacon is the belly of the pig. exactly. you put it on a bun with some panchetta and rigatta. let s put some meatball on there. you put some cheese on. and then you put a piece of panchetta on top of that, stick the bun on it. jam it in your face. there you go. oh!