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Farm Bill – Your Help is Needed

laura — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:05:38 +0000

Millions of families across the country rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, to feed their kids. Drastic cuts to SNAP are on the table now as Congress is working on the Farm Bill, legislation that provides funding for SNAP. Share Our Strength is calling on culinary professionals to add their names to a letter urging Congress to protect SNAP and other federal nutrition programs in the Farm Bill. Visit NoKidHungry.org/Chefs-Tell-Congress to sign on by May 30!

Help spread the word to your friends and followers on Twitter and Facebook:

Sample tweet: Chefs, will you sign this letter TODAY & ask Congress to protect #SNAP (food stamps)? http://tinyurl.com/73dnese #nokidhungry #farmbill

Sample facebook post: Calling all culinary professionals! Will you join your peers in asking Congress to protect SNAP (formerly food stamps) and other federal nutrition programs in the Farm Bill? Sign this chef-only letter today! Visit NoKidHungry.org/Chefs-Tell-Congress to sign on by May 30

Bid Now! Proceeds Support Culinary Trust Programs

laura — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:04:11 +0000

Sold to the Highest Bidder!

One of the highlights of conference is the annual silent auction that benefits The Culinary Trust. Every year, IACP members, friends and family of The Trust generously donate dozens of culinary items, big and small, to raise money for our programs. Every year, the lots get better and better.

Bid now or bid at conference for over 160 items including: a week’s vacation in Italy’s Umbria region: a 2-day market to table tour of Mexico City: VIP passes to some of the country’s best culinary events; dozens of gourmet foods, cookbooks, (award winners: IACP’s 2011′s Judge’s choice Cooking with Italian Grandmothers and the 50-pound, 2,400 page Modernist Cuisine); cook- and bakeware; electrics ( a new model Vitamix blender); certificates from Chef John Besh (New Orleans), dinner the famous Rao’s in NY; cooking, baking and butchering classes, including a 2-1/2 Day Course at Ballymaloe in Ireland, photography (a full-day multi-product/recipe shoot); styling, career and writing coach sessions; and professional services.

From now through March 26th, you can preview items and bid online at Bidding for Good

Then, on March 30th the auction will move to the conference location, New York’s Millennium Hotel and items will be up for grabs until noon on April 2nd. Bid now or bid later (absentee bidding permitted).

Click here to see all 168 lots (more being added) and sign up for Bidding For Good with your credit card and support great work of The Culinary Trust.

Annual Silent Auction – Call for donations

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:01:59 +0000

DONATE TODAY!

Don’t miss a chance to help The Culinary Trust and put your product or services in front of a large gathering of culinary professionals and food writers!

The Culinary Trust’s annual silent auction starts online and then continues at the IACP Conference, at the Millenium Hotel in New York City in a prominent location. The conference auction boards will be on site for the entire conference — March 30-April 2, 2012.

To make a donation to the Culinary Trust’s annual silent auction, which takes place at the IACP conference each year, click here to download the silent auction donation form in .pdf format.

Please email info@theculinarytrust.org if you have questions or need additional information.

Culinary professionals donate to school program

laura — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:54:31 +0000

The Packer, Pamela Riemenschneider: Culinary professionals gathered in Austin at the Texas Capitol on June 3 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Chefs Move to Schools program. The event was in conjunction with the International Association of Culinary Professionals annual conference, June 1-4. More