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Menu for Hope 6 goes live – bid, bid, bid!
by Jeanne on December 14, 20094 Comments in Uncategorized
If it’s nearly Christmas, then it must be time for Menu for Hope.
The Menu for Hope event is the brainchild of Pim and takes place once a year around Christmas. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the campaign involves food bloggers (and others) from around the world each donating something to be raffled off on-line for charity. This can be as simple as a cookbook or as elaborate as a foodie tour of a world-class city. And at the end of the raffle, winners are chosen at random using a software application, after which the regional hosts will tell people the good news of what they have won.
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