A Menu for Hope III
Have you heard about A Menu for Hope?
It’s this really cool charitable program that raises money for the UN’s World Food Programme. Of course it’s great to give for its own sake, but the icing on the figurative cake for this campaign is that every $10 you donate gets you a raffle entry for some really phenomenal prizes.
You can even choose which prizes you’re entering for (which is good, because a lot of them, while fabulous, would require traveling to a coast). I personally entered for a day in the staging area at Alinea, the restaurant owned by incomparable chef Grant Achatz. He is the one who cooked the most memorable meal of my life, back when he was cooking at Trio in Chicago. The finale of the day is a full tasting menu. Oh my god, that would be so incredible.
And, you know, even if I don’t win, I still helped feed starving children. See the link up top for information on how to enter.
That does sound like a neat idea.