{"id":2026,"date":"2009-10-02T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2009-10-02T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T10:16:24","slug":"winners-of-2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/winners-of-2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of 2nd Annual O Foods Contest for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bleedingespresso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ovarian_cancer_awareness175.jpg?resize=114%2C238\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"238\" align=\"right\" \/>Here are the 2nd and 3rd place winners for the <strong>2nd Annual O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness contest!<\/strong> We wish we could have given a prize to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you check out all the great recipes at the roundup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Roundup Part1\" href=\"http:\/\/bleedingespresso.com\/2009\/09\/2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-roundup-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Recipes: Part 1<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Roundup Part2\" href=\"..\/2009\/09\/29\/o-foods-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-round-up-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Recipes: Part 2<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And be sure to find out who won the <a href=\"http:\/\/bleedingespresso.com\/2009\/10\/winners-of-2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month.html\">Grand Prize and Awareness prizes at Bleeding Espresso<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bleedingespresso.com\/2009\/09\/interview-with-gina-depalma-on-last-day-of-o-foods-contest.html\">Gina De Palma<\/a><\/strong> took some time out of her busy pastry chef life at Babbo to pick the winners that will receive the signed copies of these great cook books! I&#8217;ve included her words here, because I think they are great!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner of the signed <a title=\"Molto Italiano: 327 Easy Italian Recipes to Cook at Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0060734922?tag=bleedingespre-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=0060734922&amp;adid=0Y4VYN3W8J48SG6B8X71&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home<\/a> by Mario Batali:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The\u00a0<strong><a title=\"orange and tomato rasam\" href=\"http:\/\/purplepaperplanes.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/27\/o-foods-orange-and-tomato-rasam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orange and Tomato Rasam<\/a><\/strong> [Lavanya at Pieces of paper, squiggly lines] is captivating. \u00a0I can&#8217;t stop reading this recipe over and over and over again. \u00a0I love Indian food so much and this is exactly the kind of transportive recipe I adore, that takes me entirely out of my cooking comfort zone and into another culture&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congrats <strong>Lavanya at Pieces of paper, squiggly lines<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the winner of the signed copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1400097746?tag=bleedingespre-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1400097746&amp;adid=1JWV7E57CEEGE8M5N7X7&amp;\">Vino Italiano: The Regional Italian Wines of Italy by Joseph Bastianich<\/a><\/strong> :<\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/recipespicbypic.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/olives-empanadillas-for-o-food-event.html\" target=\"_blank\">Empanadillas chock full of Olives<\/a><\/strong> [Nuria at Spanish Recipes] look absolutely awesome. A fried pocket stuffed full of things I love to eat anyway&#8230;.drool, drool.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>I feel bad because I didn&#8217;t pick anything healthy or baked&#8230;I can&#8217;t help it, the heart wants what it wants.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We want, too, Gina! Don&#8217;t feel bad! :)<\/p>\n<p>Congrats <strong>Nuria at Spanish Recipes!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to everyone who participated, and remember you can still donate to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at our <a title=\"Firstgiving donations page for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstgiving.com\/ovariancancerawarenessmonth\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firstgiving donation page<\/strong><\/a>! We need to raise awareness year round, so anytime you see a chance to raise ovarian cancer awareness, please take it! Women everywhere will thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all participants!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the 2nd and 3rd place winners for the 2nd Annual O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness contest! We wish we could have given a prize to everyone. Make sure you check out all the great recipes at the roundup: O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Recipes: Part 1 O Foods for Ovarian Cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/winners-of-2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-event","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-wG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/2nd-annual-o-foods-contest-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":2026,"position":0},"title":"2nd Annual O Foods Contest for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"September 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll get back to the prosciutto soon, but first... 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