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If you’re in the vicinity of San Francisco and would like to say hello to Ari, and maybe get a signed copy of his book, you’ll have a couple of chances this January 2010:

Saturday January 16, 2010: a book signing at Omnivore Books, 6-7 pm.

Monday January 18, 2010:  a book signing and bacon tasting at Bi Rite Market, 6-9 pm

Please see their links for more information, hope to see you!

At 3CUPS cafe in Chapel Hill, NC, on December 9, 2009. Please see their web site for more details and contact 3CUPS  if you’d like to attend, it promises to be a festive, and very flavorful, evening!

Lantern  restaurant, together with Ari, will be doing a fabulous bacon dinner and booksigning on December 8, 2009. Please contact Lantern restaurant if you’re interested in attending! (They have some lovely photos on their web site, too.)

Here’s some more info from their site:

“The meal will focus on bacon from masters Allan Benton, Sam Edwards and William Johnson, homemade lardo, guanciale and acorn-fed Ossabaw pork belly as well as great local winter vegetables and apples from Diane Flynt at Foggy Ridge Cider. The dinner will be $75 per person, excluding tax and gratuity and wine pairings will be available for an additional charge. Proceeds from the dinner as well as sales of Ari’s book that evening will benefit Table, an organization dedicated to feeding hungry children in Chapel Hill-Carrboro.”

Ari will be doing a booksigning and bacon tasting on November 12, 2009 at The Pasta Shop, 5655 College Ave, Oakland, California, 4:30-6:30 pm. Please head on over there if you’re in the area!

Yesterday was the 2009 Kerrytown Book Festival; I had a table for Zingerman’s Press. There was a steady flow of people all day long (11am-5pm). I could see the main tent was packed for the panel discussion with Ari and Jane and Michael Stern (authors of Roadfood). The hilarity of the nearby cake walks was audible from my table too – I saw some of the cakes go by when the winners were taking them away – some pretty fabulous creations! Including the Bacon Book cake made by Zingerman’s Bakehouse; pictured here being held by the winner. (A photo of this cake was up today on AnnArborLive.com too.)

At the Zingerman’s Press table I was showing off the brand new pigskin-leather-bound edition, with its linen case (both made here in town by Bessenberg Bindery, the first one of only twenty), and the new cloth edition too, the case for which was also hand made by local book artist Jean Buescher Bartlett. And as usual the Russian edition of the Guide to Giving Great Service caught lots of peoples’ attention!

On September 24, 2009, 5:30-7pm, if you’re in D.C. and want to taste some great cheeses from Zingerman’s Creamery, and pick up a copy of Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon, have it signed, and chat with Ari, head to Cowgirl Creamery, 919 F Street NW, Penn Quarter, Washington DC.  Tel: 202.393.6880.

The event at Neal’s Yard Dairy is still being worked out, but likely mid-November.

December will see Ari in Chapel Hill, at Lantern Hill restaurant for a Bacon Dinner on December 8, and at 3 Cups on December 9 for a Bacon and Sparkling Wine pairing event! And on Thursday, December 10, a lunchtime book signing at Southern Season.

On Saturday, January 16, 2010 Ari will be at Omnivore Books in San Francisco, time still to be confirmed.

If you’re near any of the events, please stop in and say hello!