She's baaaacccckkkkk
I wanted to remind you to eat out tomorrow night if you possible can to benefit Dining for Life. I don't usually use the blog to publicize benefits because there are so many worthy ones and, frankly, they make for boring posts. But this is one near and dear to my heart. Here's the Web site with participating restaurants.
I noticed for the first time this year that it doesn't just help people with AIDS, so I asked Ted Blankenship at Moveable Feast about the change. Here's what he said:
"We started serving women with breast cancer and their families about three years ago. This is possible through the generous support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Maryland and our partnership with The Red Devils.
"Across the country, organizations that were founded to feed people with HIV have begun to expand their services to people with other illnesses. If the kitchen has the capacity, and you are delivering in the communities, it’s just a matter of funding because the need is certainly there.
"Now that Moveable Feast has moved into our new home in East Baltimore with a kitchen that has an enormous capacity, we hope to feed more people with HIV or breast cancer and in the future, expand our services to other people in need of nutritious food to help fight an illness."
Comments
Dear Ms Large,
This note is in regards to your 9/17/08 listing of the top 10 noisy restaurants. My husband and I have been dining at our favorite restaurant, The Helmand, for many, many years, both during the week and the weekends. Unless there was some type of big party being held the time you were there, we have never experienced anything that would suggest they be included in this list. I would hate for potential diners to think this is the norm. The food is consistently good, the prices resasonable, and the staff pleasant and attentive. May I suggest you try The Helmand again sometime.
Posted by: Zelda W. | September 17, 2008 8:09 PM
Zelda, I don't think you need to worry about the Helmand lacking customers. Ever.
Posted by: matt hudock | September 17, 2008 10:33 PM
Dear Ms. Large,
My wife Zelda is in no shape to submit letters to your periodical. I regret that she escaped from her relaxation chamber to type something on the crazy electric machine in the solarium. Please accept my apologies. She frequently talks of flying machines and something called a "facsimile" machine. We will increase her "care".
Posted by: F. Scott F. | September 18, 2008 1:08 AM
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
Posted by: Joyce W. | September 18, 2008 5:25 AM
Point to Joyce!
The blog is pretty zippy at 6 a.m. Owl, are you sleeping in this morning?
Posted by: Dahlink | September 18, 2008 6:12 AM
Thanks so much for the plug for tonight's Dining Out for Life! Moveable Feast does such valuable work for such vulnerable people thoughout the Baltimore metro area; tonight's event is a way diners can make a real contribution in helping that work possible. All folks have to do is eat at one of the many participating restaurants -- the management of the restaurant will have already agreed to contribute a specific portion of the check to Moveable Feast. A volunteer representative of Moveable Feast (an "Ambassadorr") will be at each restaurant to remind patrons of the event, answer any questions about the organization ... and gently solicit additional investment (in the form of a supplementary contribution) in this very vital endeavor. I will be serving as an Ambassador at Meli Patisserie and Bistro in Fells Point tonight. The webpage you cited describes the very wide range of establishments participating in Dining Out for Life this year ( number of which are offeing lunch as well as dinner). Again, many thanks for alerting the sandbox!
Posted by: BankStreet | September 18, 2008 8:41 AM
Dahlink, ugh, I was actually up then putting the finishing touches on today's funtastic post.
Posted by: Owl Meat Sleepy | September 18, 2008 11:36 AM
Dining Out for Life is a great program. Congrats to all who work so hard on it. But I am curious -- not one restaurant in Canton?
Posted by: Driftwood | September 18, 2008 4:49 PM
Well, Owl Meat Sleepy, it may have been your best effort yet. I'm still laughing. Thanks!
Posted by: Dahlink | September 18, 2008 5:13 PM
Oh how kind Dahlink. It's so hard to know how things go over from the Nest of Solitude. Of course I'm hoping Bourbon Girl will stop by soon with some libations and other trinkets of affection (like LIttle Debbie oatmeal things)
Posted by: OMG | September 19, 2008 12:01 AM