Free hog dinner at Bludso’s, Jeff Michaud at Animal, and a feast for the nose

Bludso’s Bar & Que is having a free hog dinner Monday in honor of the BCS title game. The restaurant will serve a whole smoked pig to customers on a first-come-first-serve basis until the meat runs out. The full regular menu will also be available, as well as $3 PBR and $5 Texas margaritas all night. Doors open at 5 p.m. 609 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 931-2583, https://www.barandque.com/.

Jeff Michaud, the chef behind Marc Vetri’s Philadelphia restaurants Osteria and Alla Spina, will cook a dinner at Animal restaurant Tuesday to support his first cookbook, “Eating Italy.” Michaud will prepare a four-course, family-style meal of carne salata with red onion, celery and olive oil; pear and Treviso salad with Taleggio dressing; squash gnocchi with amaretti and mostarda; fettucine with braised rabbit and porcini; pork shank osso buco with saffron rice crema; heirloom apple upside-down cake with polenta gelato and pistachio flan with chocolate sauce. Dinner is $75 per person and includes a copy of Michaud’s book. There is an optional $40 wine pairing. Call (323) 782-9225 for reservations. 435 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles. animalrestaurant.com.

The Culinary Historians of Southern California present long-time Los Angeles Times Food section writer Charles Perry speaking on “A Feast for the Nose: The Perfumed Banquet in Old Damascus” Jan. 11. The lecture will take place at the Los Angeles Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Perry will speak about the aroma-focused medieval Arab banquets with samples of perfumes from medieval recipes. A reception with themed refreshments will follow around 11:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Mark Taper Auditorium, Downtown Central Library, 630 W. 5th St. Chscsite.org.

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