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Northshore October 2025
First rule of Back Alley Bacon: You do not talk about Back Alley Bacon. So it was with some concern for my own safety that I lurked by an unmarked door, reporter’s notebook in hand, awaiting a chance to speak with “Chef John Hamm”—no relation to the actor, and possibly not the maestro’s real name—to learn more about the porky pop-up eatery that has been dishing out delicious takeout to insiders in Salem since late last summer. I was rewarded with a few unnerving minutes with the mastermind. “Hamm” spoke to me through a crack in the door, sporting a disturbing rubber pig mask that made it diff
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