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East Cork Slow Food upcoming event.

* Slow Food East Cork is hosting a Celebration of Irish Pork on Saturday, January 17. Learn about how the pigs at Ballymaloe Cookery School range freely, foraging for food. Watch a demonstration on how to make and link several types of homemade sausages with the opportunity to try it yourself. €30 members and €40 non-members. Tel: [phone]

* The Four Rivers Convivium event promoting local pig farmers, will be held in the Arlington Lodge Hotel on the weekend of January 17. €30 for Slow Food members €35 for non-members.