At this time of year, as those of us in the Northern Hemisphere approach the bottom of the seasonal cycle, we are encouraged to reach out to our fellows to share what we have, and at ChefsLine what we have is knowledge about food and cooking. However good our advice to you is on cooking a Christmas roast or baking Christmas cookies, it means nothing to someone who can’t even afford beans. So we’ve decided to offer a six-month subscription to our service to the winning bidder of an important program we’d like you to know about.

Four years ago a food blogger named Pim decided to raise money to feed the refugees after the catastrophic tsunami in the South Pacific. She called the effort A Menu for Hope and she enlisted food bloggers around the world to contribute to a raffle. That first raffle has become an annual event and last year food bloggers collected over $62,000 for the UN World Food Program. There’s something marvelously circular in using food to generate food. It’s the way the natural world works as the food chain plays out until at the top of the heap we humans return to the earth to contribute to the next cycle.

You can learn more about the raffle at Pim’s blog. And you can buy your raffle tickets here. If you’d like to bid on six months of 25 professional chefs at your bid and call, the code for our prize is

UC17.

For details on our premium, six month subscription visit www.ChefsLine.com/gifts.php. Let us help you eat well, while you help others have something to eat.