Menu for Hope: Win My Prize (Codes UE04 andEU23)!

I'm so excited to be part of the blogging community that is supporting Menu for Hope this year.  Started four years ago by Pim of Chez Pim, last year, Menu for Hope raised over $62,000 for The United Nation's World Food Program (WFP).

We'd love to top that this year - by a lot - because funds from the 2007 Worldwide Menu for Hope Raffle will go, through WFP, to a great cause: The school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa, a model program that feeds children and supports the local economy by buying directly from local subsistence farmers.

Menu for Hope is an extraordinary project and you can read all about it on Pim's blog.

To support Menu for Hope, I'm offering a signed copy of Baking From My Home to Yours, which I'll send to you or - and this would be such fun - if you live reasonably close to me in New York City, Connecticut or Paris, I'll deliver it to you over coffee and cake! BAKING, which won a James Beard Award this year for Best Baking Book, has over 300 recipes for everything from breakfast sweets to celebration cakes.

It's my most personal book ever - it's really like a scrapbook of my 30 years in the kitchen (my kitchen and the kitchens of great chefs) - and it's got all my favorite recipes in it.

If you win and we get the chance to get together, I'll tell you all about how the book came together.

I'm offering this prize twice:

For my fellow Americans, the code for my prize is UE04, for my neighbors in Europe, the code for my prize is EU23 . 

You can see the list of prizes from around the world at at Chez Pim; to see the prizes for America's East Coast, go to Serious Eats (where Adam Kuban has been coordinating this huge effort); and for prizes for Europe, go to Foodbeam, where wonderful Fanny Zanotti is the coordinator .  Many, many thanks to everyone.

Raffle tickets cost $10 each and can be purchased through FirstGiving.  It's fast and easy so please, please, please - buy lots of tickets.  The cause is great, the need is extreme and the prizes are wonderful.

I can't wait to meet whoever wins my prize!  Check back at Chez Pim on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 to see if it's you!

See you soon, I hope.  A tres bientot, j'espere.

Comments

[Sandra]

I love this book!!! And I want it... great project!

[fanny]

Hi Dorie,
thank you soooo much for joining.

Much love x
- fanny

[Maria]

What a great event. I am glad you are participating and what a great prize! I will move to New York, Paris, or Connecticut if I have the chance to meet you:) Once again, you are wonderful!

[Dorie]

Julie, thanks so much. And, of course, you're so right about Menu for Hope. Whether we win or lose, the kids of Lesotho win and that's what's really, really important.

Maria, the Domestic Diva of Manila, I'm so tickled to have been part of your Christmas party on the other side of the world. You're a dear for sharing this with me -- thank you!

[Maria]

This is not related to the post except for the link to the 'potluck' headline. Actually, I just wanted to send a note of thanks to you Dorie.

Just had our Marketing Dept Christmas party tonight (It's midnight in Manila now), for the potluck I brought your brownies (Kathrine Hepburn) and Cheesecake (for topping I poured homemade caramel and made a circle of chopped almond roca - I thought it would be more exciting than blueberry sauce!). Both were huge hits! So far everything I've baked from your BAKING cookbook has just been fabulous. My dept never expected their boss to be a domestic diva too!

You rock,

Maria from Manila

[Julie]

Oooh -- I'm loving this prize. I'm a big fan of (and participant in) Menu for Hope; now I know what one of my most-coveted bids is going to be.

I'm already a total devotee of World Peace Cookies (which I made yesterday, for a party, where people absolutely MARVELED at their fabulousness), Sweet Tart Dough and many of your other recipes. I almost bought Baking a few weeks ago at Kitchen Arts and Letters, but they were out of stock. Now I can take a chance this way, and win or lose, the kids of Lesotho benefit!

[Dorie]

Ruth, thank you, but what I did is easy. The really fantastic people are Pim, who created this extraordinary online event, and the worldwide coordinators who rounded up donors, posted the list of prizes and will be managing the prize sites during the campaign. It's a ton of work and they've done it so well.

[RuthWells]

Dorie, you are fantastic. What a wonderful project.