Share your best recipe -- for a good cause
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October 08, 2008
Experimenting
with recipes is just one of the many joys of home cooking. Find a recipe
that really works—after you’ve added your own special touch, of
course—and it goes right into the scrapbook or notebook filled with all
the others from over the years. That includes the one handed down to you
by your mother or grandmother on a 3x5 card that has olive oil and
tomato sauce stains on it.
Sharing them with family and friends is all part of the fun, and now you
can share them with all of the people of Cape May County while
contributing to the well-respected Love of Linda Cancer Fund.
Love of Linda is named for Linda Bickel Grassi, a Wildwood Crest
resident and Glenwood Avenue Elementary School teacher for 20 years who
died of ovarian cancer in 1994. She was all at once a daughter, sister,
mother, teacher and a friend—and she was gone at the too-young age of
46.
Linda’s friends and family helped raise funds during treatment of her
illness to go toward mounting family expenses, and today they continue
to do so for similarly-struggling Cape May County families.
Now they have a new fundraiser that is at the same time fun and
heart-warming. They are publishing a Love of Linda cookbook filled with
recipes from home-cooks, professional chefs and local restaurants.
“This is the first time for the cookbook,” said Amy Mahon, president of
the Love of Linda Cancer Fund and a best friend of Linda’s daughter,
Christa, who are both Wildwood High School alumnae. “We’ve been trying
to come up with different ideas for fundraisers and I was out to dinner
with friends one night and Christa was talking about her mom’s recipes,
and how she has some but can’t find some others, and wishes she had
saved some of them. That kind of stuck in my head for awhile and then I
saw this online company that publishes cookbooks, and that’s how it came
together.”
Christa and Amy are soliciting recipes from home-cooks and professional
chefs at local restaurants and will sift through them to publish the
best collection of appetizers, soups, entrees, side dishes and desserts
in a book that will be on sale some time in January.
Deadline for submitting a recipe is Nov. 30. Send your recipe(s) to Love
of Linda Cancer Fund, 118 N. Harding Ave., Apt B, Margate City, NJ
08402, or by fax to 609-523-1231 c/o Amy Mahon, or by e-mail to
loveoflindacookbook@gmail.com, or go to
www.loveoflinda.org and scroll
down to “Recipes Wanted!”
They said that those who submit recipes will have the best chance of
getting them published by being as detailed as possible.
“Describe what should be going on, whether things should be chopped or
diced, stirred or whipped, and what ingredients might be optional or
substituted,” Amy said.
While they won’t be able to test all the recipes for accuracy – “We
don’t have a Food Network-sized test kitchen,” joked Amy – but the
recipes that come from chefs and restaurants will obviously be accurate.
The cost of each cookbook will be determined by several factors – number
of pages, number cookbooks ordered, etc. – and won’t be known until
after the Nov. 30 deadline.
“Sales of this cookbook will go toward helping more families cope with
mounting bills, allowing them to spend their emotional energy trying to
defeat cancer,” Amy said.
Since the fund began, when Linda was still alive, more than $1 million
has gone to help families with their financial hardships.
“We have given to patients and their families since 1994 and helped more
than 1,200 patients,” Amy said. “This year alone we’ve given out
$86,000.”
Another upcoming fundraiser is:
Black Sheep Motorcycle Club, 4th Annual Beef & Beer, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2
p.m. to 6 p.m., Menz’s Restaurant, Route 47 and Fulling Mill Road, Rio
Grande, 08242. Music by Paul Toz and Miss Margie, door prizes, 50/50 and
Chinese auction, $20 tickets available at the door or at Eddie’s Auto
Body, Sea Gear or from any Black Sheep member. For more information or
to volunteer call 729-0456 or send an email to mac1150@verizon.net.
Rob Seitzinger can be e-mailed at seitz [at] catamaranmedia.com or you can comment on this story by calling 624-8900, ext. 250.
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