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Menu for Hope: Congrats to Alison Violano and Paul Cardillo

The winners for this years Menu for Hope raffle have been announced over at Chez Pim. Congratulations all the winners, and in particular the two LENNDEVOURS lot winners: Alison Violano, who won WB19, the Long Island Cabernet Franc Three Pack. Paul J. Cardillo, who won WB20, A Romantic Getaway for Long Island Wine Lovers. Alison and Paul, please email me at lenndevours@gmail.com and we’ll arrange pickup or me shipping your prizes to you.

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Menu For Hope Ends Today: Donate Money. Win Prizes.

Menu For Hope, the annual event when food and wine bloggers the world over unite to raise money for the U.N. World Food Programme, ends today so make sure that you give till it feels good this holiday season. So far, people have donated nearly $60,000, which is amazing, but we all want more. Give people. Give.   This year, LENNDEVOURS is offering two prizes for the fund raising raffle: WB19: Long Island Cabernet Franc Three-Pack A lot of people think that Long Island is all about merlot, but those in the know realize that some of Long Island’s best,…

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4th Annual Menu For Hope: December 10-21

Menu For Hope is the annual event when food and wine bloggers the world over unite to raise money for the U.N. World Food Programme. Founded by Pim several years ago, this is one holiday tradition that I hope never falls by the wayside. This year, LENNDEVOURS is offering two prizes for the fund raising raffle: WB19: Long Island Cabernet Franc Three-Pack A lot of people think that Long Island is all about merlot, but those in the know realize that some of Long Island’s best, most-interesting wines are made with cabernet franc. This lot is a simple one. It…

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4th Annual Menu For Hope: Coming Soon

Menu For Hope, the food and wine blogger charity drive started the hugely popular and philanthropic Pim will be started on December 10 and running through until the 21 this year. If you’re not familiar with the charity drive, it’s quite simple. Bloggers around the world contribute gifts, and people can buy raffle tickets for the prizes they’d like to win. Over $60,000 was raised last year for the UN’s World Food Program. As you may remember, I went a little  overboard last year with the gifts I gathered from Long Island wine country. This year, I’m going to scale…

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Come on People, Give till it Hurts (and Win!)

Today is the last day that you can donate to A Menu For Hope, an amazing collaboration of the world’s culinary bloggers. This morning when I checked the donation site, we had raise nearly $39,000 — which means that you have already shattered my expectations. Thank you for your generosity thus far. But, this thing isn’t over people! Donations are being accepted the rest of the day today and there are new prizes being added every day. Many of the Long Island wine-themed prizes I put together only have a handful of people in the running, so your chances of…

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Donate to the United Nations World Food Program — And Win Prizes

Friday is the last day to donate money to A Menu for Hope, so don’t forget to make a donation and put yourself in position to win one of the dozens of great food- and wine-related prizes. It looks like quite a few of the prizes I’ve put together are still ripe for the winning, with only a few people trying for them right now. Every time I read through the prizes again, I’m proud of the generosity on display. Long Island B&Bs have donated nights at their beautiful inns. Wineries are offering wines and private tours that you can’t…

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Donate and Win the “Big Reds of Long Island”

In case you missed it, I’m participating in A Menu for Hope again this year. We’ve already raised over $10,000, so thanks to each and every one of you who have donated already. For those of you that haven’t, I’m going to highlight some of the Long Island wine-related lots that are available as raffle prizes. Today, I want to talk about the "Big Reds of Long Island" prize. If you win this three-pack of Long Island reds, you’ll get a bottle of Roanoke Vineyards 2003 Blend Two, which I’ve reviewed previously on this site, saying: "Cabernet franc (48%) dominates…

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A Menu for Hope III — December 11-22

For the past two years, members of the food and wine blogging community have raised money for various charities through a tremendous project called A Menu for Hope. The original event was conceived shortly after the Asian tsunami a couple years by my friend Pim (of the Chez Pim blog) to raise aid money for the victims. That initial project was a great success and last year, the culinary blogging community raised an amazing $17,000 for UNICEF by doing an online raffle of various culinary/food/wine items. It’s time for A Menu for Hope III and this year’s beneficiary is the…

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