Menu for Hope: Gourmet Salt Box (UW31)

Today is the kick-off of Menu for Hope, the annual food-blogger fundraiser started by Chez Pim a few years ago. It's fun, it's easy, you can win fantastic prizes (see more on that below) and you'll be helping out a worthy cause: world hunger.

You can read all the details here at Rasa Mayalsia (she is hosting the West Coast prizes on her site), and view a whole array of prizes. In a nutshell, for every $10 you donate, you get a virtual raffle ticket to bid on the prize of your choice. At the end of the two-week fundraiser, Chez Pim will announce the winners. Pretty instant gratification, if you ask me! The fundraising is being handled by a bonafide charity called Firstgiving, so none of the bloggers are handling any monies. Click here to check out information about Menu for Hope through Firstgiving.

The prize sponsored by Rainy Days and Sundays is this beautiful boxed set of salts from NapaStyle. The prize code for this is UW31.

The box, which is made from non-endangered acacia wood, contains 4.5-oz of each of the five salts: Sundried Tomato, Citrus Rosemary, Roasted Garlic, Hawaiian Red, and Gray Salt. It is a $58.00 value and, from my own personal experience using Michael Chiarello's salts, this will inspire many great recipes! Shipping in the U.S. and Canada only.

Donation instructions:

1. Choose a prize or prizes of their choice from Rasa's list or the complete prize list on Chez Pim.

2. Go to the donation site at http://www.firstgiving.com/menuforhope4 to make a donation

3. Specify the prize you would like to bid for in the 'Personal Message' section in the donation form. Each $10 donate will get one raffle ticket toward a prize. For example, a donation of $50 can be 2 tickets for UW01 and 3 tickets for UW33. Please write 2xUW01, 3xUW33.

The results will be published on Chez Pim on Wednesday January 9th.

So please donate today, even if it's only $10.00. Just think, you can walk away with this gorgeous salt set for a mere $10.00! Last year, Menu for Hope raised a whopping $62,925.12. Let's go for $100,000 this year!