4505 Meats “Kettle Cooked Style” Old Fashioned Chicharrones:

Savvy Bay Area snackers are well familiar with Ryan Farr’s crispy, meltin-your-mouth porcine treats, but the local butcher recently added a new version of his popular chicharrones to the lineup. Farr’s original-recipe pork rinds are fried in rice bran oil, but this new addition is kettle-cooked in lard, resulting in an extra light and crispy nose-to-tail snack. $3.90-$4/ 1-ounce bag. Available at 1909 Mission St., S.F. (415) 525-4239. www.4505meats.com. Also at Avedano’s Holly Park Market in San Francisco and www.goodeggs.com.