Check Out This Last-Minute Holiday Culinary Gift Auction For No Kid Hungry
By Lisa White in News on Dec 23, 2013 4:40PM
We know you gift shopping procrastinators are out there, starting to feel the panic rise as you try and think of something meaningful to give loved ones on Wednesday. How about a cool interactive gift that does the double duty of benefiting a worthy cause? You’ll swoop in and be the real shining star come Christmas morning.
Share Our Strength is helping you out with a last-minute auction that started this morning and runs until noon tomorrow. Benefits from the items sold will help out Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign, which helps provide children in need with nutritional programs, education and food assistance. And these aren’t some generic gifts but thoughtful one-of-a-kind culinary adventures for the food and beverage lover in your life. Besides a bottle of Moet and Chandon Imperial, all of the auction items are personal lessons from some of the best known names in the Chicago food and drink scene.
For the pastry fan, how about a pie boot camp for six with Paula Haney of Hoosier Mama Pie company or a pastry tutorial for four from James Beard Award Winner Mindy Segal? Have a beer fan in the family? Bid to have a tour, tasting and beer education session for six from Jared Rouben and be one of the first to check out the Moody Tongue Brewing Company’s not yet open venue. Or for the smoked meat fan, Charlie McKenna of Lillie’s Q will offer a backyard BBQ tutorial for five hours at your house. And there are even more auctions up for grabs if none of these tickle your fancy. Since the auctions end Dec. 24 at noon, winning bidders will receive an email gift certificate by 1 p.m. tomorrow so even the wrapping situation will be effortless.
The best part is most of these gifts are for multiple people, so you knock out your last minute shopping list in one fell swoop. Christmas morning will be the culinary equivalent of shouting at your family “We’re going to Disneyworld!” Head over here to check out all the auctions, bid and let your shopping worries melt away until next year.