So, last week I was asked to be a celebrity chef. Barring the obvious stumbling blocks of my not considering myself a celebrity and the glaring fact that I am grossly untrained in the ways of cheffery (that is a word, right?) I accepted because isn't it any on-air presenter's dream to have an awesome cooking show? Well, it is mine, anyway.
Wednesday, May 16th 2012 was the date set for the Cavendish Kitchen launch (find it on Twitter as #CavendishKitchen) where us "celebs" would get drawn alongside a restaurant whose signature dish we would spend an hour entertaining crowds making at the CTICC over the weekend of the 24th-27th in Cape Town. Mine takes place between 12h00 and 13h00 on Saturday 26th of May, and I'll be cooking with Col' Cacchio - yeah, I know. You can actually taste my excitement. Well, I can, anyway...
Well, people of the interwebs, it appears I need your help once more. See, if I win this here little cook-off, that's R5000 for my preferred charity, which is, as you all know, the Woodside Special Care Centre - a home for severely mentally and physically handicapped children.
Here's how you can help: tweet @goodfoodSA and keep hounding them that I should win (don't forget the #CavendishKitchen tag) and also click this Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/GoodFoodandWineShowSA), like it, and vote for me there. I know together we can do this, interwebs folk!
It's 5k for some kids at an organisation that can make five thousand rands stretch further than Pravin Gordhan could ever wish to stretch them.
Ready, steady, cook!
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The Power of You
I am truly overwhelmed.
Anyone who had ever doubted social media as a vehicle for positive change has really wasted their time doubting.
Within hours of asking for cake for Bridget - http://lancelivect.blogspot.com/2012/03/we-need-cake.html - we have cake. Well, not only cake... we have cupcakes, cakes, juices and snacks.
So now, let the thank yous begin:
First up, two people who jumped onto my plight quickest: Rucinde Edson (@Goddess_Rae) and Cape Town Bru (@CapeTown_Bru) who went ahead and got Charly's Bakery involved (@charlysbakery - http://www.charlysbakery.co.za/ ) who have gladly offered to bake a cake for Bridget. And that was just on Twitter.
Rucinde has also pledged to donate snacks and juice for the party via RealNet in Athlone. A huge thank you for all you've done... and on your birthday too (Happy Birthday, Rucinde). Thank you also for roping in Pick 'n Pay's Support Office, who, via Olfa Solomon, the Regional Customer Service Coordinator is donating a cake for the party too.
A HUGE thank you has to go out to Lameez Smith Nielsen, who runs a charity bakery called Cakes from Heaven. She is making a massive birthday cake saying "Happy Birthday Bridget" with all sorts of chocolate niceties as well as 110 cupcakes for the more than 100 guests who will be in attendance at the party on Friday 30th March 2012 at the Woodside Special Care Centre. This, via Facebook.
The power of the internet. The power of social media. The power of you.
I cannot put in words just how much all of this means to me.
May you all be blessed.
Anyone who had ever doubted social media as a vehicle for positive change has really wasted their time doubting.
Within hours of asking for cake for Bridget - http://lancelivect.blogspot.com/2012/03/we-need-cake.html - we have cake. Well, not only cake... we have cupcakes, cakes, juices and snacks.
So now, let the thank yous begin:
First up, two people who jumped onto my plight quickest: Rucinde Edson (@Goddess_Rae) and Cape Town Bru (@CapeTown_Bru) who went ahead and got Charly's Bakery involved (@charlysbakery - http://www.charlysbakery.co.za/ ) who have gladly offered to bake a cake for Bridget. And that was just on Twitter.
Rucinde has also pledged to donate snacks and juice for the party via RealNet in Athlone. A huge thank you for all you've done... and on your birthday too (Happy Birthday, Rucinde). Thank you also for roping in Pick 'n Pay's Support Office, who, via Olfa Solomon, the Regional Customer Service Coordinator is donating a cake for the party too.
A HUGE thank you has to go out to Lameez Smith Nielsen, who runs a charity bakery called Cakes from Heaven. She is making a massive birthday cake saying "Happy Birthday Bridget" with all sorts of chocolate niceties as well as 110 cupcakes for the more than 100 guests who will be in attendance at the party on Friday 30th March 2012 at the Woodside Special Care Centre. This, via Facebook.
The power of the internet. The power of social media. The power of you.
I cannot put in words just how much all of this means to me.
May you all be blessed.
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