Zingerman's Mo Frechette on his bacon and chocolate dreams

The New Yorker's Dana Goodyear has a dispatch from this week's Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, where the marriage of bacon and chocolate reigned supreme. While it seems like this flavor pairing has been in vogue for decades now, the truth is that it was dreamed up by Ann Arbor's own Mo Frechette, managing partner of Zingerman's Mail Order.

According to the New Yorker story, Frechette had a dream about chocolate and bacon several years ago. He shared his dream with his friend Katrina Markoff, a confectioner at the high-end Vosges chocolate maker, who went on to produce a whole line of chocolate and bacon products for the company, named after Mo Frechette.

Mo's latest dream? A marriage between pickles and chocolate.

You can read the full post on the New Yorker site.

Jessica Webster leads the Food & Grocery section for AnnArbor.com. You can reach her at JessicaWebster@AnnArbor.com for questions, suggestions, or news items.