Coming from a European family I know how hard it can be to eat healthy. Between the carb-infused pastas and the breaded deep-fried chicken cutlets, it’s hard to picture life without all the fatty goodness. It’s even more difficult for hard-core Italians to understand why anyone would even want to.

I once tried to cut red meat from my diet; the resulting distress from my family was astonishing. Not only did they try to sneak beef into all of my food, and switch out my toothpaste for duck pâté, but they also believed that my newfound regiment was due to mental instability and staged an intervention. You really gotta love Italian mothers.

Chatting with screenwriter Michael Konyves over coffee, he admits to us that the last time he tried Googling his own name, the only pictures that appeared were of Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. For a writer looking to establish themselves among the entertainment industry’s elite, that’s a big step in the right direction. A Montreal native, Konyves recently succeeded in adapting Mordecai Richler’s international bestselling novel Barney’s Version for the big screen. The film, starring Oscar-winners Hoffman and Giamatti, marks Konyves highest-profile project to date.

Konyves talks to Bitchin’ Lifestyle about Barney’s Version, the realities of what it takes to make it as a screenwriter and the pros and cons of movie-making on both sides of the border.

Bacon is a magical meat. This we all know. But here’s an interesting fact that maybe you didn’t…

If you go to Google and type in “things made out of b”, the world’s most widely used search engine, as always, offers up the most popular suggestions. The first is brass. Perfectly understandable, many things are made out of brass.

The second is bacon. Not bronze, not bamboo, not bauxite. Bacon. And you thought it just went well with eggs.

Here are five sculptures people have constructed entirely out of bacon. If you think they look delicious, well…you’re not alone.

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