{"id":258,"date":"2006-12-08T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T09:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sararosso.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/london-a-menu-for-hope-the-tour-del-gelato\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:46:35","slug":"london-a-menu-for-hope-the-tour-del-gelato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/london-a-menu-for-hope-the-tour-del-gelato\/","title":{"rendered":"London, A Menu for Hope, the Tour del Gelato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in London for the long weekend, and it&#8217;s shaping up to be a great one. Friends and more friends, and a &#8211;little&#8211; bit of shopping. Just a little. More pictures later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Big Ben...Parliament by MsAdventuresinItaly, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/msadventuresinitaly\/316990896\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/101\/316990896_e2cf6bcb68.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Big Ben...Parliament\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Menu for Hope III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;m participating in the Menu for Hope III, which is basically the best online charity raffle for foodies and winelovers, ever. On <strong>December 11th<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chezpim.typepad.com\/\">Chez Pim<\/a> will be posting the entire &#8220;menu&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlebovitz.com\/\">David Lebovitz<\/a> will be posting the European entries, with more details on my &#8220;prize&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be able to start bidding, with the money benefiting the United Nations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfp.org\/english\/\">World Food Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helping a good cause has never been so easy, or so rewarding!!<\/strong> All I can tell you is you&#8217;re going to love my prize, and you&#8217;re going to want everyone you know to bid on it. It&#8217;s going to involve Italian food and foodstuffs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour del Gelato<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, a reminder for those of you working on your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/tour-del-gelato-blogroll\/\">Tour del Gelato<\/a><\/strong> stops &#8211; I know it&#8217;s hard to get out there and force every bite of delicious creamy gelato past your lips, but just remember that we all have to make sacrifices, and in the name of truth in reporting! I look forward to seeing your entries. Let me know when they&#8217;re up and I&#8217;ll add them to the blogroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in London for the long weekend, and it&#8217;s shaping up to be a great one. Friends and more friends, and a &#8211;little&#8211; bit of shopping. Just a little. More pictures later. Menu for Hope III This year I&#8217;m participating in the Menu for Hope III, which is basically the best online charity raffle for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/london-a-menu-for-hope-the-tour-del-gelato\/\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,56,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-menu-for-hope","7":"category-tour-del-gelato","8":"category-abroad","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/menu-for-hope-iii-the-artigianale-basket\/","url_meta":{"origin":258,"position":0},"title":"Menu for Hope III: The Artigianale Basket","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"December 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: For those of you bidding from the US, I will be traveling there in early spring and will mail the package from inside the US to avoid customs hassles! 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