Menu for Hope 4: Call for Entries
Editor's note: Warning—nonpizza content follows. But it's for a great cause, so no grumbling, folks! —The Mgmt.
It's that time of year again. As many of you who publish or read food blogs know, each year Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim organizes her Menu for Hope campaign, in which food bloggers from around the globe come together to help those who are less fortunate.
For those unfamiliar, Menu for Hope is an online charity event in which bloggers donate a prize that goes into a virtual raffle. Readers and others may then buy virtual raffle tickets for one or (hopefully) more prizes. Tickets are priced at $10 each, and bidders may buy multiple tickets per prize to increase chances of winning—hint, hint! ;)
Dozens of great food-related prizes are offered each year, with proceeds going to the U.N. World Food Programme, which seeks to fight hunger worldwide. Last year's Menu for Hope raised a staggering $62,925.
As she did last year, Pim has enlisted the help of "regional hosts" to share some of the work that goes into making MfH run smoothly. Serious Eats will be helping out in the East Coast USA region. (A list of other regions appears after the jump.)
I've already contacted last year's East Coast participants (those I had contact addresses for, anyway), but I'd like to call on any other East Coast–based food bloggers who would like to help the cause.
If you're located on the U.S. East Coast and would like to participate this year, instructions follow after the jump. You must contact the regional host for your area to get a prize code before you can post your Menu for Hope prize on your blog. But hurry with your prize proposals, as we only have slots for 99 East Coast USA entries!
