Grand Central
Vanderbilt Hall, East Side
42nd Street & Lex. Ave.
42nd Street & Lex. Ave.
New York, NY
Sandra Lee, Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse, Lidia Bastianich and Rosanna Scotto Host the World's Largest Bake Sale at Grand Central Terminal to Benefit the Food Bank of New York
Sandra Lee, Food Network personality and New York Times bestselling author commits to raising $50,000 for area food banks by selling sweet and savory treats from 30 of New York's best renowned chefs and restaurants
Celebrity appearances by Emeril Lagasse, Sandra Lee, Rosanna Scotto and Duff Goldman
On March 29, 2011 New York Times bestselling author, magazine editor and celebrated Food Network personality Sandra Lee will host The World's Largest Bake Sale in historic Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal in New York. This fundraising event, sponsored by Pyrex, will benefit The Food Bank of New York and will feature sweet and savory baked goods from 30 of New York's most well-respected chefs and restaurants, including six from Grand Central Terminal. This event will be the impetus for ancillary events happening simultaneously that day in every state in the country to raise funds for local area food banks throughout the United States.
Sandra, who is passionately committed to providing support to America's food banks, organized this event in collaboration with her friends and fellow food industry icons Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Emeril Lagasse and Rosanna Scotto. Also participating in the event will be Sandra's fellow Food Network star, Duff Goldman from "Ace of Cakes".
The list of Bake Sale participants reads like a who's-who of the best chefs, restaurants and food shops in New York City. Participants include six Grand Central Terminal tenants—Ciao Bella Gelato, Junior's Restaurant, Magnolia, Manhattan Chili Company, Murray's and Zaro's—as well as a selection of some of the city's most popular fine dining establishments and bake shops, including Del Posto and Fresco by Scotto.
Wonderful cause but definitely not the world's largest bake sale - I have to believe that honor goes to mom Gretchen Holt Witt. Her first bake sale, which was the catalyst for Cookies for Kids' Cancer, along with the help of 250 volunteers raised about $400,000 when they baked 96,000 cookies! Inspired by her son Liam's diagnosis of neuroblastoma, a deadly childhood cancer (Liam passed on Jan 24th at the age of 6), Cookies for Kids' Cancer has now raised more than $2.5 million towards childhood cancer research. The story is on their website and it's incredibly inspiring.
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