Tuesday in the Kitchen: Ben Meyer of Grain & Gristle shows how easy it is to cure and smoke pork belly at home, and how wonderfully different it tastes from store bought bacon.

Wednesday: to the Field: Ben Jacobsen of Jacobsen Salt, who after having discovered finishing salt while in Denmark, set out to make a salt like no other, and start his own salt company.

Thursday: Food Wisdoms with Mark Bitterman, author of Salted: A Manifesto on the World’s Most Essential Mineral, shares his knowledge of the different finishing salts throughout the world that he sells in his store.

Most of the videos featured on Cooking Up a Story were produced, filmed, and edited by Rebecca Gerendasy. Fred Gerendasy contributed as a writer to many of the posts and occasionally as the interviewer. Visit Rebecca Gerendasy Clay – Art and Fred Gerendasy Photography to see their current work.