STONE SOUP EVENT UPDATE
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 04:07PM ***MEDIA ALERT***
LANSING CITY MARKET, PEPPERMINT JIM AND CHEF NICK GEAR UP FOR THE PREMIERE OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TRAVELING STONE SOUP EVENT
BENEFITS TO PROCEED VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA AND THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lansing/St. Johns MI December 10th 2009- John Hooper, manager of the Lansing City Market, Peppermint Jim, spokesperson of the Get Mint Trading Co., and Chef Nick, culinary professor at Lansing Community College are gearing up for the kick off of the First Annual Traveling Stone Soup Event at December 19, 2009 from noon till 7PM.
Stone soup is, according to the tale, a meal that started in a time of poverty as a stone in a pan with water, but with more and more people adding their own ingredients, together they make a nutritious soup for everybody to enjoy.
Goal of the event is to sell 500 bread bowls of soup for $5.00 each to raise $2.500 for Volunteers America. With this money the Michigan chapter of the VOA is able to feed 1250 people.
Donations are welcomed as well and checks are to be made out to Volunteers of America. Left over soup will be donated to the Community Kitchen, located on 430 N. Larch, Lansing. According to the VOA, meal service is up with 28% and they have served 105.000 meals by the end of the fiscal year.
All the ingredients are donated by (small) local Michigan producers for two enormous pans of soup that will hold chicken and vegetarian. Otto’s Chicken, Westwind Milling Company, Riverside Studios, are some of the producers known so far to donate ingredients.
Each pan of soup will contain a special item, large enough to find and the lucky person to do so will receive a small prize.
The “stones” will travel to the next Stone Soup event. Businesses or organizations can apply to have the fund raising event held at their location. For more information, visit www.peppermintjim.com.
Contact:
Peppermint Jim Crosby and Chef Nick
media@crosbymintfarm.com / peppermintjim@yahoo.com
989-307-2183 / 517-376-2217
Kate Reed, Volunteers of America Development Coordinator
kreed@voami.org
517-484-4414 Ext. 103
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