Menu for Hope II raffle winners

I am so very happy to begin yet another year on Chez Pim with such a wonderful announcement. With the help of all the participating food bloggers who put up an enticing, dizzying array of prizes and the many, many generous donors, we are closing our Menu for Hope II campaign with $17,101.32 going to UNICEF to help support the victims of the Kashmir earthquake.

If you donated on the campaign, read the rest of the post to find out if you won anything. If you're one of the lucky winners, contact the blogger who sponsored the gift with your contact information so your prize could be mailed to you. (And no, there is no shipping/handling costs to the winners, this ain't no shady late night direct marketing, ha.)

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you so very much to everyone for your help. Our Menu for Hope II is such a smashing success because of all of you. Thank you.

(P.S. Email me if you had any problem or question, I won't be online very much in the next five days -off to ski in Colorado- but I promise I'll sort everything out when I return. Happy new year everyone!)

And the lucky winners are......drum roll.....

Afternoon tea and Pierre Hermé with Clotilde of Chocolate and Zucchini: Shona Riach

The chance at fame with our own Amateur Gourmet Adam: Martha Fischer

A customized Napa or Sonoma Wine Country Tour created by Alder of Vinography: Helen Rennie

Louisa' s personalized Fixer's guide to Paris from Movable Feast: Lilian Lau

One-hour food photography lesson a signed copy of her cookbook Cook 1.0. from Heidi of 101 Cookbooks: Emily Weissman

David Lebovitz's chocolate book and a chance to savor Berthillon ice cream with him on Ile Saint-Louis in Paris: Sandra Purins

The Hungry Bay Hopper from Sam of Becks and Posh: Rebecca Woodson
The Ferry Building Bonanza: Shelly Butcher
And her food books from the Bay: Juan Luis Sanchez

Persian dinner kit from Fatemeh of Gastronomie: Beau Jarus
Her Persian Pantry: Julie Conason

Kashmir dinner kit from Brett of In Praise of Sardines: Sandy Der

A basket of French goodies from Meg and Brett of Too Many Chefs: J.Johnson

A Seattle food basket from Shauna James of Gluten Free Girl: Amy McGill: Susan Brinkley

Jin Patisserie 12 Piece Box from Rachael of Fresh Approach Cooking: Jessica
And her 3.5 inch paring knife: Kalyn Denny
and two sets of donated Chronicle Books Cookbooks: (Set I) Natalie Jiricek, (Set II) See Lok

Mariage Frères Tea from Michèle of Oswego Tea: Linda Tobin

Matcha, from Japan plus a recipe from Keiko of Nordljus: Johanna Novales

Make-Your-Own Sushi Starter Kit from Alice of Epicurean Debauchery: Laurie O'Neill

A bottle of vodka infused with Buddha Hand Citron from Eve, the Chocolate Lady: Sam for Han

Casina Rossa Truffle & Salt from Megan of I Heart Bacon: Elise Bauer

Two jars of her delicious homemade apple butter from Elise of Simply Recipes: Constanza Conte Huarte

A homemade jar of marmalade from Vanessa of She Craves: Patricia Nischan

A chance to be the honorary owner of the firstborn ewe lamb from Susan of Farm Girl: Jennifer New

Penang Nyonya Cooking, from Wena of Mum Mum: Diane Carlson

One year subscription to The Art of Eating magazine Derrick of Obsession with Food: Karen Paik

Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page from Melissa of the gorgeous Traveler's Lunchbox: Fai Foen

The Very Maple Syrup cookbook and her very special homemade Maple Nut Granola from Amy of Cooking with Amy: Raedia Sikkema

Digital Dish from Owen of Tomatilla (3 winners): Christine Hills, Melissa Mullin, Robin Catesby

Sweetnicks gives the Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook: May Cheong-Mizuan

Bouchon cookbook from Faith Kramer of Blog Appetit: Maxime Lachance

Anne Willan's Cooked to Perfection from Luisa, The Wednesday Chef: Fiona K

The Cook's Book by Jill Norman and three jars of Anton Kozlik's Canadian mustard from Clement of A La Cuisine: Steve Ito

Swedish Cakes and Cookies from Anne of Anne's Food: Charlotte Bland

Barbara Santich's The Original Mediterranean Cuisine: Medieval Recipes for Today from Christina of the Thorngrove Table: Barrett Buss

Laura the red headed chef of Cucina Testa Rossa offers an autographed Jacques Pepin, Fast Food My Way book: Fiona Garrott

Marcella Hazan's "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking" and "Marcella Says... : Italian Cooking Wisdom" from Kate of the Accidental Hedonist: Sherry Cermack

Cook Until Desired Tenderness from Andrew of Spittoon and Slash Food: S. Breach gift for Granny

Three beautiful prints from Jen of Life Begins at 30: Emily Avila

$200 gift certificate for a meal at Manresa from Chez Pim: Shuna Lydon

Henry Chung’s Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook and an excellent Sichuan cookbook Land of Plenty, by Fucsia Dunlop from Barbara at Tigers and Strawberries: Wendy Shaffer

Divina Cucina cookbook from lovely Judy at Divina Cucina: C. Sorenson

Giada de Laurentis's new book from Stephanie of the Happy Sorceress: Napur Kittur

Benriner Kanechi Slicer from Gerald of Foodite: Robyn Eckhardt

A box of Deb's Delectables chocolates from Deb of Here and There: Robyn Lee

a t-shirt and a copy of James Peterson's Essentials of Cooking from Miss Ginsu of the Hedonista: umami

The Food Lover’s Trail Guide to Alberta and its sequel, The Food Lover’s Trail Guide to Alberta: volume 2 from Paige at Chef-Girl: Ayse Tuzlak

Chai Hamper from Nupur of One Hot Stove: Cathleen I.

Oregon food basket from Sarah of Slash Food: Michelle Cash

Gascony food basket from Kate Hill, who blogs on her French Kitchen Adventures: Jack Everitt

Cast iron Kadai from VK from My Dhaba: Marja Allen

The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The Handmade Loaf by Dan Lepard,The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden from Silverbrow of Silverbrow on Food: Paul Jones

Free wine class from Beau of Basic Juice: Sheryle Kane

Thomas Keller's Bouchon cookbook from Hillary of Blonde Food: Shana Worthen

New Tree chocolate from Beatrice from La Tartine Gourmande: Robyn Lee

Cookies and other yummy things from Japan from Bilbo from Smoregasbord: Robin Catesby

$100 gift certificate to spend at CB2 from Decent Content: Andrea Kim

A set of fair-trade goodies, with a box of Clipper Organic tea bags, a Packet of Clipper Organic Fairtrade Ground Coffee and a jar of Clipper Organic Hot Chocolate from Al of City Hippy: Toby Taylor

Two bottles of Blis maple syrup Aki and Alexander of Ideas in Food: RD Moreno

Homemade truffles, her mom's favorite lemon curd, and even some some myer lemons (if you live in the US.) from Charlotte of Love and Cooking: Laurence Bliss

Pizza party at Slice: Melissa Cohen
Pizza making kit, also from Slice: Janelle Gunther

A gourmet box of a cool Zyliss peeler and some fancy chocolates from the fabulous chocolatier Michel Cluizel in Paris from Pascale of C'est moi qui l'ai fait: Jessica

Obachan's box of Japanese goodies: Christina Nevin

Shadow Michelin-star chef Stéphane Molé of Les Ormes for the day, from Vivian at A Life in Food: Gavin Bloch

A mixed half case of Austrian wines from Winemonger: Kristen Hoyle

Saigon Street Cast DVD from Graham of Noodlepie: Savina Tesitorre

A walking tour of NY Chinatown with the Hungry Rose: Karine Perttula

A set of lovely gifts contains a book, a box of chocolates, and a surprised kitchen tool from Dreska at Little Fancies: Terry Stein

A few of Viv of Seattle Bon Vivant's favorite things: Allison Crosbie

Island Insanity package from Belly Timber: Savina Tessitore

Itinerary for Long Island wine tour from Lenn of Lenndevours: Marjorie Deninger

T-shirts from Shuna of Eggbeater: Edie Ichioka, Stephanie Yu

Comments

[Chocopie]

hi, pim
Long time no see ! I'm so happy to meet you again. In fact, I was too busy, I couldn't take care of my blog " Unfortunately ". As new year's resolution, I came back to home.
Hope to meet you very often in your and my blogs.

Happy new year

[Lil]

well done again pim on the great job done (and woohoo, i have excuse to go to paris again, hehehe!).

enjoy your skiing trip, and looking forward to many more wonderful adventures with you in the new year. :)

[Jessica "Su Good Eats"]

Well done Pim, raising all the money and organizing such wonderful prizes. Mmm, the Jin and Michel Cluizel chocolates shall be a late Christmas present.

[farmgirl]

Hi Pim,
Well, it seems the idea I kept suggesting to my readers to buy Menu For Hope "tickets" for holiday presents was a good one. My gluten-free pal will be thrilled to learn she is receiving a late Christmas gluten-free goodie basket from Shauna!

Thanks again for organizing this amazing event.

[Charlotte]

Congratulations to all the lucky winners and thanks again to Pim for putting this together!

(I had to donate post deadline as I had a small credit card issue ... but it's all good!)

[barbara]

Brilliant job Pim and the entire Food and Wine Blogging community. Congratulations to all the winners.Thanks for all you efforts Pim.

[Anon.]

I have to point out, accepting prizes is tacky. The winners gave for the cause. Asking the donors to pay for postage is uncool. They should donate the gifts to the cause as well. Thats what classy charity recipients do.

[shuna]

please insert sound here:

"WOOOO HOOOO" "NOOO WAAY!"

Nelly Boy screaming down theoretical aisle in mind's eye.

Well my goodness, a very lucky gift for someone who just offered dinner at manresa as a birthday gift to best friend!

And really Pim, the work you put into this, amazing. A Stunningly beautiful, even slightly whimsical, generous gift you give to our community. And to communities abroad. I don't care what anyone says, it's not just your smile that's infectious.

You inspire us all. merci beaucoup.

[obachan]

Thank you so much for all your work, Pim. You're the best! :D

[MeBeth]

Pim - Thank you for organizing this great effort, it must've been a ton of work and I just wanted to throw in my appreciation for all you've done!

I hope you enjoy that vacation in Colorado, you deserve it.

[sam]

Thank Pim - great effort all round. I hope you have better conditions for skiing in Colorado than we did snowboarding in Tahoe.

In response to Anon, I don't think it is tacky for winners to accept their prizes. I spent literally days and days putting my prize packages together and I think I would probably be offended if the winners didn't want to receive them. Likewise, my generous sponsors were all happy and eager to donate the gifts and would like to share their products with the winners.

Entrants donated and were given promise of a prize. Those who didnt want a prize, stated so. To break a promise or a contract after the fact - now that would be tacky, wouldn't it?.

The food community is all about sharing and spreading the word about the things that they love. People gave these prizes, because they actually want to give those things away and share them with like-minded people.

You suggest that the gifts should be donated to the cause as well, but that doesn't make sense? They already have been donated to the cause. I don't see any other way that the prizes on offer in this particular fund raising event would be of any use to the cause itself. Would sending a few dozen Western recipe books to Pakistan improve matters there?

[Laurie]

Wow! I can't believe I won a prize! Thanks for putting this together, Pim. What a fun way to raise money for a great cause. Next year, I'll try to come up with something to donate - maybe some handwoven napkins or tea towels?

(And I agree with Sam, I would be very disappointed if I donated a prize and it was not bid on or accepted. Not good manners and not in the spirit of the contest. If a person wanted to donate money without designating a prize, there was that option.)

[Emily]

Thanks for letting us be a part of this, Pim!

Calling KRISTEN HOYLE- Drop me a line so I can get these great Austrian wines on over to you!

[Marja Allen]

I just wanted to say that I won the cast iron kadai offered by VK of My Dhaba.

I appreciate the spirit in which the pan was offered (and would love to have such a pan to add to my collection of cast iron that I love) but I couldn't accept the pan. I am sure it is well loved & would like to see it stay with it's owner. The only reason I bid on the Kadai was in the hope of winning it so VK could keep it ! I don't think that is bad manners on my part, I would have appreciated the gesture if that had been my pan, but would have sent it all the same if the winner decided they wanted it.

I certainly don't mean any disrespect by not accepting the pan and I hope that VK understands that.

[Luisa]

Pim, thanks again for all your help spearheading this fantastic effort. I was so glad to be a part of it. And now on to Fiona K - are you out there? I still haven't heard from the lovely lady who won Anne Willan's Cooked to Perfection... does anyone know where she might be? Thanks for any and all help.