Lawrenceville artist Janet Hautau and West Windsor author Stacey O’Brien are set to visit Terhune Orchards to celebrate the publication of their new cookbook, The Bacon Route: 620 Miles of Bacon Recipes.
The book signing is scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. December 15 at Terhune Orchards winery tasting room, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrenceville.
Visitors will be able to taste Terhune Orchards wines and sample bacon recipes from the book.
Proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Curt’s Ride Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to increase awareness about cancer and raise funds to find a cure for cancer. The foundation donates all the money it raises to the American Cancer Society.
The Bacon Route follows the annual journey along the 620 miles of the annual Curt’s Ride to Cure Cancer bicycle ride. Curt’s ride was established in 2010 as a tribute to Curt Ewald, who died of cancer that year.
Every October, the Curt’s Ride to Cure Cancer team departs from Amelia Island at the Georgia-Florida border, biking 75-100 miles each day to arrive at the southernmost point marker in Key West, Fla., a week later.
Recipes in the book include dishes like Long Key shrimp creole, Palm Beach clam chowder and St. Augustine stuffed mushrooms. With one bacon-centric recipe for every 10 miles, The Bacon Route combines a love affair with bacon, enthusiasm for cycling, and a passion for charity.
Hautau, a Pratt Institute alumna, was an award-winning art director and graphic designer with two New York ad agencies for many years. In recent years she operated her own Princeton-based design studio. Her work has been exhibited in the New Century Artist Gallery in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Dalet Gallery in Philadelphia and the Phillips Mill Gallery in New Hope.
O’Brien is the co-founder of Curt’s Ride to Cure Cancer. She is a web content and design professional who has developed websites for centers and faculty at Princeton University, and various other projects including sites for philanthropists, artists and authors. O’Brien has pedaled in the Curt’s Ride to Cure Cancer all four years since the ride began.
The book can be purchased at the event for $25.
More information is online at terhuneorchards.com.
