Celebrity Italian Table - a Free Cookbook with a Cause

I was reading one of my favorite blogs and was attracted to her latest entries. Pinch My Salt came across this site from a fellow blogger Spicy Salty Sweet and it offers a free cookbook. WOW!

The Celebrity Italian Table offers a free download of their cookbook which features celebrated-known personalities from the America, famous Italian chefs and prominent U.S. party planners. The cookbook offers special wonderful pasta dishes and are accompanied with a beautiful and creative table setting concepts to match.

Not only does this delight cook enthusiasts such as moi, but it also allows us to help feed the unfortunate. Barilla's program, which is on its second year, promotes awareness and money to support America's Second Harvest, a US charity that donates 2 billion pounds of food products annually. For each downloaded copy, Barilla will donate $1, up to $100,000, and this will help reach out and feed the less fortunate. The cookbook will be available for the whole month of February, 2008 in PDF format.

Free Rice

I know that this blog is a collection of treasures in my kitchen but I couldn't miss this opportunity to share this with you.

I stumbled upon Free Rice, a site that not only donates free rice but also helps one's vocabulary by playing the online game. The player receives a word and s/he tries to choose the correct word that best describes the word in question. For each correct answer, 20 grains of rice is donated by the advertiser on the bottom of the page. If you get 10 correct answers, you have contributed 200 grains of rice. The UN World Food Program distributes this to deserving families all over the worlds.

The site does not earn anything from this generous gesture.

Why not give it a chance to not only donate rice but also be able improve your vocabulary.