Ooga Ooga! There’s a Bake Sale Going On!
Tuesday afternoon the first bake sale went down. Having baked 21 baguettes, 90 brownies and 48 bagels (none of which came out, stay tuned for a bagel fiasco post), I made an early CSB drop-off and headed into the City.
Ooga Labs, an Intertube business who’s signature is caveman-language website names, hosted me and the employees brought it. I was sold out of baguettes and nearly all of the brownies in about 10 minutes, which left a couple minutes to socialize before heading back to grab my car before the parking structure tagged another chunk of change onto my bill. All in all it was everything I could have hoped for the first day of the fundraiser. At the end of the week I’ll post with the totals raised for Haiti relief efforts.
Many thanks to Ooga and brother-in-law 3 (I have 4 of these; you’ll likely hear much about them) for getting me in. I hope to be back soon with more good eats!
Baguettes, Bagels and Brownies for Haiti!
I figure its time to bring out some old-fashioned ideas that may seem quaint but also may just get the job done. That’s why I love the idea of bringing back Victory Gardens, home canning, making your own cheese, and baking bread. And the traditional bake sale that has been relegated to the often uninspiring, but precious efforts of 2nd graders seems like something I can also get behind.
And so in the tradition of community pulling together in times of crisis, whether it be scrap metal collecting and rolling bandages in WWII or Prop. 8 protest rallies and grassroots Obama-campaign organizing, I am running a multiple day bake sale from Tuesday, January 19th through Thursday, January 21st. Each day I will be providing baked goods at various locations and all profits will go to Doctors without Borders to support on-going relief efforts in Haiti. Tuesday I will be in San Francisco’s Financial District; Wednesday goods will be sold at UC Davis with a husband and brother-in-law manning the sales in their respective departments; and Thursday I will be selling Berkeley.
Contact me if you’re interested in purchasing some baked goods to support the relief efforts and please spread the word.
