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Goodies for a Good Cause: Eat My Blog is Today
Today is the Eat My Blog 2010 Summer Bakesale, and it's happening now until 4 p.m. Get there while the getting is good to score homemade cookies, cupcakes, confections, concoctions and more to satisfy your sweet (and a little savory) tooth. We were there early to drop off our contribution, and to put together a pink box of tasty treats from some of our favorite bloggers and food pros in Los Angeles.
As organizer Cathy Danh of Gastronomy explained earlier this week, 100% of the sales will be turned over to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, a cause that unites food lovers with a cause that makes sure everyone has food: "We're a group of people who make eating well a priority, so it makes sense that we'd want to extend that privilege to everyone in our city. Too many people go hungry everyday. This is our way of making sure that fewer people are food insufficient."
Eat My Blog is set up on the patio of Tender Greens in West Hollywood [map] today until 4.
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