Hi all-
Really amazing raffle prizes in exchange for your $5 donation to Unicef
to benefit the earthquake victims. Every $5 gives you another shot at
winning the prize of your choice.

And I mean AMAZING stuff!
With prizes redeemable in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, San
Francisco... Or lots more that will ship direct to you.

Go here to check it out: Menu For Hope

http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/

Spread the good word!
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A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE GREAT STUFF, TO GET YOU MOVING!

1.Slice, the definition blog on all things pizza, is throwing in two
prizes to entice their readers, and you too, to donate. One is an
invitation for two to the Slice Grilled Pizza party at their
headquarter in New York, where you could join the Slice editors and
shoot the breeze about pizza while eating some delicious
fresh-from-the-grill pies. The second is a pizza-making kit: "For
those of you who are not in New York City, unable to travel here, or
who just find the idea of dining with Slice all too odious, we'll send
you a pizza stone, pizza peel, and Peter Reinhart's American Pie, which
is chocked full of great pizza recipes and inspiration."

2. Oh, yes, for those who are interested in Japanese food, there is a
second box of Japanese goodies on offer from Obachan. The box contains
very hard to find items like dried Yuzu zest and Anko, azuki bean paste
powder. Hardcore Japanese food lovers should go put your fiver down
right about now!

3. The One, The Only, Clotilde of Chocolate and Zucchini (a French food
blog) is offering up Haute Ptisserie, a chance to share an afternoon
tea with her at Café de la Mairie in Paris, with patisserie of your
choice from Pierre Hermé around the corner.

4. Louisa of Movable Feast (another food blog), the itinerant chef
extraodinaire, offers a personalized Fixer's guide to Paris. Yes, do
what Anthony Bourdain did when he was in Paris, have our Louisa create
your own personalized guide of Paris for you.

5. Fatemeh of Gastronomie (food blog) offers two gifts, a "ready to
cook" Persian dinner "kit". She will measure and prepackage all the
ingredients and provide a step-by-step recipe card. If the winner
wanted to pay for overnight shipping on ice, she'll even cook it as
well. The second gift is her "Persian Pantry" filled with Persian
foodstuffs valued at around $50-75. Considering that Persian foods
might not be so easy to find in your neck of the woods, this sounds
like a mighty tempting gift, no? (Yet another cool item Fatemeh is
adding to this kit: "It's a 4.6 gram package of Saffron, direct from
Khorasan, hand-carried from Tehran less than a month ago. Just that one
item is worth $20, bringing the total value of the Pantry to well over
$75!"

6. And, in the twist of flavor as only a farm blogger could pull off,
our farmgirl Susan is giving a chance to be the honorary owner of the
firstborn ewe lamb at her farm next spring.

7. a $200 gift certificate for a meal at Manresa in the S.F Bay Area

8. And of course, a mixed half case of Austrian wines from
www.winemonger.com

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!