There’s a lot going on at Bon Appétit these days.  Condé Nast, the company that publishes the magazine, has decided to move the editorial offices from Los Angeles to New York, and Barbara Fairchild, Bon Appétit’s editor-in-chief, has decided that she will retire rather than make the move.  Read more about Barbara’s decision here.

Just this week, Condé Nast announced that her replacement will be Adam Rapoport, who’s currently the style editor at GQ.  Read more about him and the plans he has for Bon Appétit here.

But!  In the midst of all this moving and shaking and what must be insane uncertainty, Barbara Fairchild has hit the road.  Yep, she’s on tour promoting her new book: Bon Appetit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful.  It’s a compilation of the best desserts from the magazine over the past 50 years, and it comes with a 12-month subscription to (or renewal of) Bon Appétit. 

And!  The tour is coming to Houston next week.  (A list of other cities and dates, including Dallas, is at the bottom of this blog entry.)   That means that you can meet Barbara and have her to sign a book.  And that means that I just served up a great gift idea for the baker on your Christmas list — or for yourself, for that matter.  You’re welcome.

For the Houston event, she’ll be at Central Market, doing a book signing from 5pm to 6pm, and then a cooking class from 6:30pm to 9:00pm.  The cooking class is a ticketed event, at at this writing there were only 15 seats left.  For details, click here. 

I, of course, will be there, trying not to geek out too much…