Please be advised that September 20 is National Punch Day, a time when people of all different races and religions gather around the punch bowl wondering if it would be polite to ask what’s inside.
Do you have a special recipe for party punch? If so, share it with us here in the comments.
And be advised that we here at WeFeedback are running low on punch. We figure one glass could feed 12 kids and a full bowl (with orange slices) could probably feed around 120.
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Over the past few days, a handful of food bloggers have staged a series of WeFeedback dinners that have left everyone here at the team absolutely gobsmacked. The Food and The Fabulous, who held the first-ever WeFeedback dinner back in March, has rounded them up on here on her blog.
They started with Jenn Cuisine, an American expat in Geneva, who whipped up some tabbouleh and grilled halloumi cheese for two. We posted earlier this week about Dutch food blogger Simone van der Berg’s spicy Thai meal.
That was followed by an epic “Steak Braai” barbecue staged by South African braaimeister Real Men Can Cook.
The events culminated in a repeat performance by The Food and The Fabulous, who put on a Thai eat-up at Cape Town’s Food Lovers’ Market.
Altogether, these events have provided food for 5,425 children. That’s simply amazing.
We highly recommend that you take a moment to read Food and the Fab’s post about why she thinks foodies can make a difference on WeFeedback.
Eden is 12 years old. He wants to be a teacher when he grows up and his favorite food is rice and beans. Eden is a refugee in Dadaab, Kenya — the biggest refugee camp in the world. But he’s growing up healthy and getting an education with the help of the World Food Programme’s school meals programme. When you feed back, this is where it goes.
With Media Distracted, There’s No Rush to Aid Somalia
Today’s New York Times tackles an important dimension of the faminebattering drought-stricken Somalia: With the media focused on stories like the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the U.K. phone hacking scandal, and theNorway shooting rather than hunger in east Africa, relief organizations are having a hard time raising money. “The overwhelming problem is that the American public is not seeing and feeling the urgency of this crisis,” a Unicef executive tells the paper (a cartoon in The Times of London recently made a similar point more controversially, depicting a starving Somali child saying, “I’ve had a bellyfull of phone hacking”).
The data does appear to back up the claim, though the famine is certainly generating coverage. In the two weeks since the U.N. officially declared a famine in parts of Somalia, the story hasn’t registered on Pew’s News Coverage Index, with the debt crisis, phone hacking scandal, and Norway shooting driving the news cycle instead.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire
cwnl:
The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia that militants banned it from more than two years ago — a crisis intervention to keep hungry refugees from dying along what an official calls the “roads of death.”
The foray into the famine zone is a desperate attempt to reach at least 175,000 of the 2.2 million Somalis whom aid workers have not yet been able to help.
(via ikenbot)
News flash: if you live in the southeastern part of the US, you’re pretty much screwed this week. You too, Arizona and SoCal. And now back to denying climate change is real.
Electron Microscope Image of Hydorthermal Worm - FEI
via, begrudgingly, Huffington Post
(via chartier)
In the grand spirit of tasty summer dishes, we give you Texas Caviar. Here’s where you can find out how to make your own and here’s where you can feed it back.
These fine folk are having a dip in a swim full of diet cola, living a dream shared by millions of people, but realized only by a few.
When we saw these delightful images on bitrebels.com, the obvious question which came to mind was how many cans of soda pop did it take to fill up this swimming pool and how flat must it have been by the time it was full?
It’s a moot point, as this particular diet cola is the homemade brew of one Mike Bouchet, who presumably didn’t fill up the pool one can at a time.
If he had, we calculate that it would have taken 281,690 cans of coke or 46,948 six packs. That would cost around $93,896.00, about as much as would cost to feed 1,028 kids for an entire year.
Obviously, it would be more cost effective to fill it up with 2-liter bottles. In fact, you’d end up filling your swimming pool for about half the price at around $50,000, or as much as you’d need to feed about 547 kids for a year.
Our advice: feed the kids.
