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Bake Sale Results, Cheese-Off, and a Helena Pop-Up

May 9, 2014 by arfoodie

BakeSale_wordmark_alternate_rgb_Domino_CH_horizArkansas Blogger Bake Sale Results

I am happy to report that, as of this writing, we are hovering around the $2,600 mark for this year’s Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry!

While we’re a little shy of our $3,000 goal, it’s still a great haul, and it’s more than we raised last year. Many, many thanks to our committee members, volunteers, bakers, donors and everyone involved!

If you’d still like to help, I’m not closing our sale until next Friday, May 16. You can donate cash directly to No Kid Hungry at this link, and it will credit to our fundraiser. Share with your friends and co-workers!

(One day soon I’ll tell the side-story for that day…short version: I stepped out for a couple hours to hang out with MC Hammer, for business reasons.)

Get Cheesed Off: Pimento Cheese Competition and Tasting 

While at the sale, the PR Maven at Historic Arkansas Museum dropped by to pick up some goodies and tell us about some goings on this weekend. Every year, the day before Mother’s Day, the museum holds an awesome event, the Territorial Fair. (Seriously, if you have kids — or even if you don’t — you have to go!)

This year, they are adding an even more savory element: A pimento cheese competition. Oh my word.

Competitors include Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro, Hillcrest Artisan Meats and Capital Hotel Bar and Grill. Visitors to the Territorial Fair can sample all the pimento cheese entries from 1 to 4 p.m., voting for a People’s Choice award to be given at the end of the day.

The Territorial Fair and the Pimento Cheese-Off are free. Historic Arkansas Museum is located at 200 E. Third Street in Little Rock.

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The original Interstate Grocery, which was the first sponsor of the King Biscuit Time radio show. This storefront will be the location of tomorrow night’s pop-up.

It’s Sold Out, And It’s So Cool: “Interstate Grocery” Pop-Up in Helena

Saturday night, Helena will host what’s likely one of the hottest culinary tickets in the state, a night with Chefs Shane Henderson and Jason Godwin. Henderson is currently a chef with food wholesaler Ben E. Keith (but you probably remember him as the opening chef for Argenta Market), and Godwin has experience in catering and restaurants, best known as the chef proprietor of Dogtown Coffee and Cookery.

They’ll serve four courses of Delta-centric delights at this sold-out event, meant to highlight not only the foods of the region, but also the success a similar permanent restaurant might enjoy in the area. Tickets were $30.

Julia Malinowski, director of the Helena Advertising and Promotion Commission, hopes the event will bring attention to the city’s potential for a “date night” type restaurant.

“Many of our residents are traveling 45 minutes to Greenville (Miss.), where investors have opened up opportunities for several restaurants to open,” she said. “We have some people willing to invest right here in Helena in a great restaurant if just the right person comes along.”

While it’s too late to join the party this Saturday, it’s pretty much a done deal that there will be more. Watch this space for details (with more notice next time, my bad) on future events.

Filed Under: Events, Foodie News, Restaurants, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bake Sale, blogger, Godwin, Helena, Henderson, Historic Arkansas Museum, No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength, Territorial Fair

Save the Date: 2014 Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale is Coming!

March 13, 2014 by arfoodie

BakeSale_Blogger_badge1_244x300_with dateArkansas Blogger Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry
Saturday, May 3, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.+
6th and Main, North Little Rock 
(Next to the Argenta Certified Arkansas Farmers’ Market)

Click here to bake or volunteer

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Hey friends,

I see from my search terms that some of you are looking for details about the upcoming Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry! So, I suppose it’s time to tell you what’s up for 2014. (First note: You may have noticed that the word “Food” is missing from the formerly-Food-Blogger-Bake-Sale. This came from the No Kid Hungry national folks, as to involve more non-food bloggers, which we did anyways.)

Background

If you’re unfamiliar, No Kid Hungry is a national nonprofit with several programs that fight childhood hunger in the United States. I’ve been a part of one of them, Cooking Matters, which teaches lower-income families about nutrition and basic cooking skills. Our books, program materials and much of the food were made possible by bake sales just like this one. Bake sales make a difference!

Event Details

This year’s bake sale is Saturday, May 3, at our same location at the Argenta Certified Arkansas Farmers’ Market, 6th and Main in North Little Rock. The hours will be at least 9 a.m. to  3 p.m., but we’re thinking about extending them to catch more folks going to another event in the area later that day.

New this year: a crafting/tag-making/decor prepping party for those of you who can’t bake your way out of a Ziplock bag. (Ha! Or even if you can…) That will be on April 12, 3 – 6 p.m. (will send address to RSVPs). We’ll make tags for the baked goods, thank-you cards for donors, crafty items for the auction and some decor for the bake sale itself.

Bigger and better this year: an online silent auction for larger baked goods and even non-food goods and services donated by area businesses. Check it out here in coming weeks.

How to Help

Open this Google doc and fill in whatever you think you might be able to do or provide. It’s okay if the details are sketchy right now. 🙂 The possibilities include:

  • Bake items for the sale (both individuals and professionals)
  • Help during the sale
  • Donate items for the pre-sale auction (doesn’t have to be food)
  • Attend the crafting/tag-making party

You can also just help us promote the sale itself on your own social channels. Please tag our Facebook page as well as No Kid Hungry’s Facebook or Twitter.

THANK YOU, and watch the Facebook page and our bake sale website for more details!

Filed Under: Events, Foodie News Tagged With: Bake Sale, Blogger Bake Sale, Food Blogger Bake Sale, No Kid Hungry, Share Our Strength

Thanks For the Sweet Memories! Food Blogger Bake Sale a Success

May 14, 2011 by arfoodie

Thanks to everyone who came by today to the Arkansas Food Blogger Bake Sale! As of right now, we’ve raised $853 for Share Our Strength, helping to fight childhood hunger across the country.

I’d really like to see this number reach the thousand mark before we call it said and done. If you weren’t able to come out, visit our team’s online donation page and help us reach this goal!

Can I be honest for a minute? I’m spent. I should update this post with all the people who donated and attended, but I haven’t slept properly in, like, a while. Kat Robinson wrote a very lovely and thorough article over at Eat Arkansas, so why don’tcha just read that one?

Oe more thing…Kat and I would love for this to be the spearhead for an Arkansas Food Bloggers group. Interested? Leave me a note below.

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Filed Under: Foodie News Tagged With: #FBBakeSale, Bake Sale, Food Blogger Bake Sale, Share Our Strength

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