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menu for hope V for united nations world food programme
Have you heard of the Menu for Hope?
You can read all about it at Sara’s Ms Adventures in Italy, including the details of how to bid on prizes, but here is a quick summary:
Menu for Hope is an annual fundraising campaign held by food bloggers around the world each December. Bloggers offer fabulous food-related prizes for the Menu for Hope raffle; this year, bidding is open between December 15 and December 24.
Anyone can buy raffle tickets to bid on the prizes. For every $10 donated, you earn one virtual raffle ticket to bid on a prize of your choice. At the end of the campaign, winners will be drawn and announced at Chez Pim.
You can find prize lists at the local hosts’ sites:
- Europe *and* the UK : Sara of Ms Adventures in Italy
- US: West Coast (If you are closer to SF than you are to NY then you belong here.) : Matt Armendariz of Matt Bites
- US: East Coast : Jaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen
- Canada : Meena Agarwal of Hooked on Heat
- Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand : Ed Charles of Tomato
- Special Wine Blog Host : Alder of Vinography
Proceeds benefit the United Nations World Food Programme, so you’ll be contributing to a great cause while getting the chance to win great prizes.
Can’t figure out what to get the person who has everything? Why not donate in his or her name? You can even print out Sara’s handy dandy vouchers so you can hand them something tangible!
Now go check out the prizes and bid before December 24!
La Buona Cucina Americana: Chocolate Chip Cookies
One of the most traditionally American foods (and one of my personal favorites) to have around the holidays are Chocolate Chip Cookies — ricetta anche in italiano!
Read on...love thursday: remembering the puppies
Last year at this time, I was wrapping up eight exciting (and stressful) weeks with Stella’s six gorgeous puppies, tearfully giving them away one by one in time for Christmas presents.
Luckily, I still get to see one of them quite frequently as he lives with a family in the village. Every few days he comes to the house and sits outside the door and cries until I open it to let him in to play with his mom and Zia Luna.
He was the first little one to go, but obviously Chicco (KEYK-koh) still remembers us.
Puppy love runs deep.
Happy Love Thursday everyone!
Fried Baccala’ and Baccala’ with Tomatoes
Two delicious ways to prepare baccalà, a traditional Christmas Eve fish in Calabria.
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My Cousin the Saint by Justin Catanoso
Through Justin’s words, I was right there with him and his Calabrian family in both good times and bad from the canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square to his newly found relative’s funeral. Justin’s descriptions are vivid and moving but not over the top, offering the perfect balance so that scenes are emotional, yet not overly nostalgic and cliché.
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Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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