STONE SOUP EVENT
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 04:04PM
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PEPPERMINT JIM AND CHEF NICK PRESENT: THE PREMIERE OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TRAVELING STONE SOUP EVENT
BENEFITS TO PROCEEDS VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA AND THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
St. Johns/Lansing MI. December 3rd 2009
On December 19th from noon till 7:00PM the first annual Traveling Stone Soup Event will be held at the Lansing City Market. The event is organized by the Lansing City Market and the World Record holding duo Peppermint Jim Crosby from The Get Mint Trading Co. and Chef Nick, culinary professor at Lansing Community College.
The duo is working in conjunction with the Lansing City Market in honor of supporting the vendors and local producers. It is also a part of the celebration of the closing of the old building after 71 years of service and the opening of the new building, where the Market will be housed early 2010. For more information on that, visit www.lansingcitymarket.com.
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 of 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. 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
***MEDIA ALERT***
PEPPERMINT JIM AND CHEF NICK PRESENT: THE PREMIERE OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TRAVELING STONE SOUP EVENT
BENEFITS TO PROCEEDS VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA AND THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
St. Johns/Lansing MI. December 3rd 2009
On December 19th from noon till 7:00PM the first annual Traveling Stone Soup Event will be held at the Lansing City Market. The event is organized by the Lansing City Market and the World Record holding duo Peppermint Jim Crosby from The Get Mint Trading Co. and Chef Nick, culinary professor at Lansing Community College.
The duo is working in conjunction with the Lansing City Market in honor of supporting the vendors and local producers. It is also a part of the celebration of the closing of the old building after 71 years of service and the opening of the new building, where the Market will be housed early 2010. For more information on that, visit www.lansingcitymarket.com.
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 of 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. 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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