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Diamond Masters to donate 10% of all pink diamond sales
August 27th, 2009Eat So They Can is approaching!
August 12th, 2009It won’t be long before October is here and our annual international dinner party EAT SO THEY CAN on the weekend of 17 October is underway. We currently have 826 hosts registered.
A new edition to our hosts this year is our restaurant hosts. We are trying to get as many restaurants around the world as possible to register as an EAT SO THEY CAN host. These restaurants will then donate a portion of their proceeds from either Friday 16 October or Saturday 17 October to GVFNA for sustainable projects in Africa. You can see our supporting restaurants on out new “supporters” page.
Alongside these restaurants are a number of other organisations that are supporting GVNFA and EAT SO THEY CAN. On 22 October I am holding an EAT SO THEY CAN dinner party in Sydney with up to 250 guests. This fundraising event has been hugely supported by many, all listed on our supporters page.
So thank you to everyone who is taking action to change the lives of those in need.
Cassandra
Give it away, Bill Gates urges
June 11th, 2009Microsoft founder Bill Gates said billionaires ought to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes, and they would even find they enjoyed it.
Gates has given much of his wealth from Microsoft, the US software giant that made him the world’s richest man, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic powerhouse.
“I think all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes — though I don’t say they shouldn’t leave anything to their kids,” Gates told a gathering at Oslo’s opera house.
“I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off,” Gates said.
“I’m a great believer that great wealth should go from the richest to the poorest,” he said, seated next to his wife Melinda who co-chairs the foundation.
Gates renewed his appeal to eradicate polio, saying the goal was well within reach, which would make it the second major communicable disease entirely wiped out after smallpox in the late 1970s.
“We have to get rid of polio because if we don’t, it will spread back and we will have millions affected,” he said.
Gates said his foundation’s biggest success had been in the field of vaccination.
“Vaccination is the area where we have saved millions of lives, and there is more to be done.”
Gates said it was a big disappointment that science had not produced a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS, but he said he was optimistic about some emerging prevention methods that could be used by women to stop infection before a vaccine is discovered.
Once one of those methods proved to work, he said, the foundation would work “to get it out there and dramatically decrease the number getting (the disease).”
“The holy grail for AIDS is to have a vaccine, which is something we are also working on,” Melinda Gates said.
“It will probably be 10 to 15 years before we get that,” Bill Gates said.
Famous Chefs’ Tips For Eat So They Can
June 11th, 2009Top 10 Meals you would cook for Celebrity Chefs
With the Good Food and Wine show making it’s way across the country, we’re asking you to unleash your inner gourmet chef and describe to us, in mouth-watering detail, what you would whip up if you had the chance to cook for a celebrity chef.
We have already judged the Melbourne entrants of the competition, and their gourmet creations sounded so delicious that we thought we’d share some of them with you. Use these winning entries as motivation if you have not yet entered the competition.
For those of you in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, you still have until 15th June to get your entries in and you too could be on your way to the Good Food and Wine show!
1. Three-course delight Celeste Aguado
I would sit Gordon Ramsay down and place a dish a of freshly opened sweet and tender coffin bay oysters in front of him, totally plain, except for a glass of a good dry white table wine. Next would come a small avocado and lettuce salad, with a special dressing of tamari, chopped red onion, soybean oil, an anchovy, lemon and fresh pepper whizzed together and poured over. Lastly would be some finely carved slices of rare roast king island beef with one or two tiny new potatoes, a tiny yorkshire pudding, new peas and a sublime cab sav gravy with a dot of creamed horseradish. This would be accompanied by a good cab sav (that made the gravy). This meal is perfect for Gordon - no one could lose their temper after a meal like that!
2. Traditional roast lamb Angelique Frrugia
I would cook my special slow cooked roast lamb which is marinated in a anchovy, garlic, fennel seed, italian herb and olive oil paste for 24 hours, seared on the outside on a very hot bbq grill and then slow cooked for 3 hours and then served with a sauce made from the marinade and verjuice. This would be placed on the table with a scrumptious three cheese, spinach and caper filo pastry - some lovely roasted turnip and sweet potato and a salad of baby spinach leaves, fresh beetroot, red onion and feta.
3. Secret family recipe Ming-Aen Nambiar
I would cook my parents’ satay chicken recipe. Good, authentic satay chicken is hard to come by and I have not tasted anything like it in Australia, even in restaurants. You would have to travel to Malaysia to taste satay as authentic as my parents’. I would carefuly cut up the chicken into perfect portions, marinate the meat overnight not leaving out any of the fragrant spices, painstakingly string each piece onto a skewer and crush up the oven roasted peanuts for the sauce.
4. Lobster with a twist Angela Hansen
I have a sauce that I created myself. I use this with lobster made with sauted shallots, butter, wholegrain mustard a splash of whiskey then at the end I add cream to it and toss in the sliced up lobster. This with be served with a light salad made from baby spinach, rocket, sauted sweet potato, pine nuts and cherry tomates with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing and just a sprinkle of salt.
5. A perfectly tailored menu Matt Taylor
For Jamie Oliver. I would make veal osso bucco with goats cheese mash and greens (I love slow cooked food). If it was Gordon Ramsay I would do a sushi platter with blue fin tuna white sordfish calamari and prawns. Would also like to cook green chicken curry for Kylie Quong I learn’t to cook curry in Thailand and still havent had a beter curry than my own or manybe red duck curry.
6. Aussie BBQ (with a difference) Lesley Pike
I’d cook Gordon Ramsay an Aussie BBQ with a difference. BBQ Emu Mediallions. Tender, low fat emu medallions marinated overnight in red wine, onion, carrot, leak, celery, juniper berries, orange juice and thyme then cooked quickly on a hot bbq.
7. Foreign flavours Charmaine Domingo
I will cook chicken pork adobo (popular Filipino dish) served with Jasmine rice to Gary Mehigan of Masterchef. I think he’s a nice guy who wouldn’t mind trying different international dishes.
8. A very sweet treat Zaya Bekirovski
Curtis Stone would be my guest, and I would serve up a gateau with whipped cream, chocolate, cherries, marshmallows, and a sprinkle of me.
9. The perfect eye fillet Jason McKenzie
An eye fillet steak cooked to perfection served with a semi-dried tomato risotto topped with a delicious goats cheese and blanched broccolini.
10. Soup-erb tomato soup Suzanne Warner
Tomato Soup because of its soup-reme taste and soup-erb flavour - winning would sure tickle my taste buds from my head, to-ma-toes.