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Mac & Cheese Bowl
1st Annual Timesunion.com Table Hopping Mac & Cheese Bowl
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Italian American Community Center
11am-2:30pm
Help the Regional Food Bank find the best “restaurant-made” and “home-made” Mac & Cheese!
Restaurant Competition
The First Annual Timesunion.com Table Hopping Mac & Cheese Bowl will feature 16 tasting stations by local restaurants. Guests at the event will have the opportunity to sample the Mac & Cheese and vote for their favorite!
Home-Made Competition
Steve Barnes of the Times Union will accept recipes from individual home chefs prior to the event, and a panel of judges will narrow down the submissions down to 10. The best “home-made” recipe will be selected at the event by a panel of local of celebrity judges! To submit your recipe, please send your submission to
by January 31.
For a list of participants, sponsorship information and event info, please click here.
The Siena Mens Basketball Team Visits The Food Bank
On January 5, members of the Siena men’s basketball team lent a hand in the warehouse of the Regional Food Bank.
The warehouse visit coincided with a successful Food Drive held during the Saint’s recent game with Mount St. Mary’s. Over 755 pounds of food was collected furing the Food Drive and an additional $750 through raffle donations.
Hunger Strikes
“Nancy Rockwell adds yet another name to her spiral-bound notebook as volunteers scramble in the back, pulling cans of vegetables and boxes of pasta off shelves and sorting them into bags.
It’s Thursday, one of the busiest days at Doors for Hope, a thrift shop and food pantry in West Sand Lake that’s changed names in recent years but has helped feed its Rensselaer County neighbors for nearly four decades. Today, they pack bags of food for a man who’s new to the pantry and waits quietly in the background.
He and his family of five were homeless until last week. Someone had to give him a ride in.
Like many of the area’s food pantries—as the recession drags on and the unemployment rate sits at a startling 10 percent—the need is greater than ever.“ (Times Union)
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The Regional Food Bank is a member of Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest). Feeding America sets standards and acquires food donations from national companies for its 200+ member food banks located throughout the country.
Through its relationship with Feeding America, the Food Bank is able to bring millions of pounds of much needed food into the community every year. Also, by working in partnership with other Feeding America food banks throughout the country, the Food Bank is able to play a role in the national response to hunger.
The Food Bank is also a member of the Food Bank Association of New York State. The Association works to end hunger by assisting the food bank network in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks’ mission, and creating partnerships to help alleviate hunger in New York State.
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