Porkophiles, circle October 25 on your calendars. That's when Chicago's first-ever Baconfest goes down at the Stan Mansion in Logan Square.

Details have yet to crisp up (sounds like a lot of samples and cookoffs), but we learned all we needed to know from the organizers' manifesto: "We are committed to creating shared bacon experiences that strengthen the bonds of the human community, across religion, across race, across gender, across class."

Hungry yet?