Posted by kathryn in Blogging

Today is the last day you can buy Menu for Hope tickets.

The total donated has already climbed over US$53k. So we’re hoping to topple last year’s total of US$60,925.12.

Menu for Hope is raising money for the school lunch programme in Lesotho. A UN initiative that feeds children, keeps them in school and provides an income to local subsistence farmers.

To meet the very people this programme assists, take a look at the photographs on Chez Pim (here and here).

There are some fabulous prizes, including:

• a restaurant review dinner with Stephen Downes of the Herald Sun (AP15)
• Lunch with food guru Harold McGee (UW11).
• Learn to cook with a 6 months subscription to Chefs LIne (UC17).
• If you live in London get the Crash Test Kitchen to cook for you (UK16).
• An eating tour of Bangkok with Thai food expert and Lonely Planet writer Austin Bush (AP30).
• About a gazillion cookbooks from Serious Eats (UE18).
• Want to cook real Indian food? Then bid on the National Indian Association of Women Cookbook offered by Quick Indian Cooking (UK12).
• A copy of Barbara Kafka’s Vegetable Love – autographed by Kafka herself (UE36).
• A foodie tour of London (UK04).
• A wild honey collecting tour with the Angkor Conservation Centre in Cambodia (AP34).
• Or what about a little holiday for two on Mornington Peninsula – the place even has a pizza oven! (AP18)

Plus there’s the Limes & Lycopene prize of 6 weeks of personalised online nutrition and diet planning.

And a whole lot more. You can view all the prizes for the Asia Pacific region at Grab Your Fork.

To buy some raffle tickets read the instructions at the end of this post and then go to First Giving.

All prizes will be announced in January.

Update: if you want to bid smart, there’s a list of the latest prize winning odds at Grab Your Fork.

21 December, 2007