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Paula Deen’s world of bacon grease and heavy cream might be collapsing around her, but one place she’s still welcome? The Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Since the leak of the transcript of a deposition the Savannah, Ga.-based restaurateur gave in which she acknowledged using racial epithets and described an ideal wedding party redolent of the antebellum South, Deen has had her television shows canceled by Food Network, lost a major endorsement deal from the world’s largest pork producer, and gone on a rather bizarre apology tour.

But Deen is still on schedule to be a featured star at MetroCooking DC, an annual culinary exhibition returning in November to the Washington Convention Center. Last week, DCist noted that LivingSocial was selling passes to the two-day show, which runs Nov. 2 and 3, using Deen as a hook.

The LivingSocial offer does not currently appear on the daily deals company’s website, but Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Shows, which puts on MetroCooking events in D.C. and other cities, emailed a statement reinforcing Deen’s attendance at November’s event.

“Paula Deen has been a friend of The Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show for many years,” the statement reads. “She has apologized and we are taking her apology at her word and moving forward accordingly.

“The Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show does not condone or believe in the use of derogatory slurs by anyone. This is a nation of forgiveness and second chances. In that spirit we intend to go forward with the MetroCooking Shows in Houston, Dallas and Washington, D.C. as planned with Paula as a presenter. At this time we have no plans to do otherwise.

The Annandale, Va.-based event promoter isn’t the only defender Deen has these days. Even after the leak of Deen’s deposition—she and her brother are being sued by a former employee of their Savannah restaurant for harassement including alleged racial discrimination—plenty of people are still lining up outside her establishment.