The Blog for Food campaign for the Oregon Food Bank is winding up this week. Here is the latest news from Tami at the Pacific Northwest Cheese Project who is one of the organizers.

As of last Friday, $1210 has been donated to the OFB directly as a result of our efforts. Every $12 is enough for the OFB to collect and distribute an Emergency Food Box, which feeds a family of four for 3-5 days. $1210 represents over 100 food boxes. Thank you everyone!

Here’s another incentive to offer readers during the last week of the campaign: Gilt Club is offering a free appetizer to people who bring a can of food in to the restaurant. They ask that we use their wording below:

…….Just to sweeten the deal, through Feb. 28th, Gilt Club is offering a free appetizer to anyone who brings in a donation to the Oregon Food Bank. All they ask is that you keep it to “one per party per visit” and don’t abuse the offer, since it is for charity…….

If you’ve donated already, thank you. If you haven’t yet, please take a moment to do so.

35th GIG Annual Education Conference

This via Grain Damaged, the 35th Annual Gluten-Intolerance Group Education Conference will be happening in Seattle Washington this year on June 4-6. More details about the conference are available on Grain Damaged.

How to Make Butter

In the “Gee! You can do this at home?” category, Aleta over at Omnomicon.com has posted instructions on how to make home-made butter. I know it doesn’t have anything to do with gluten, but we thought it was interesting and we love her photography.