SFist Raves: Food Loving Fund Raising

Look At the Amazing Collection of Food & Wine Prizes Local Bloggers have Up For Grabs...

Local über-wine blogger Alder of Vinography will create a customized Napa or Sonoma Wine Country Tour Itinerary just for you.

Heidi from 101 Cookbooks, will give you a one-hour food photography lesson (if the winner is local) and a signed copy of her cookbook Cook 1.0. 

The author, SFist staff writer Sam, of Becks and Posh asked for donations from the best Bay Area artisanal food purveyors and was amazed at their incredible response. The kindness of food people in this town is enough to make you emotional. With the help of some incredible vendors, Becks & Posh was able to put together three desirable packages with a sample of the best that the Bay Area has to offer.

The Hungry Bay Hopper: prize includes meals at Tres Agaves, Tabla and Couleur Cafe, Sodas from Fizzy Lizzy, Vodka tasting at Hangar One with 3 bottles of liquors,  and classes at Tante Marie Cooking School.

The Ferry Building Bonanza, with Purity Organic fruit juice, charcuterie from the Fatted Calf, St Benoit Yoghurts, wine tasting at the Ferry Plaza Wine Merchants, Marin Sun Farms grass fed beef, cheese from Cowgirl Creamery and a dinner at Tres Agaves

A basket of food books from the Bay, with Tante Marie Cooking School Book, The French Laundry Cookbook, Chocolate Obsession, and The Zuni Cafe Cookbook.

Fatemeh of Gastronomie offers two gifts, a "ready to cook" Persian dinner "kit".  She will measure and prepackage all the ingredients and provide a step-by-step recipe card. If the winner wants to pay for overnight shipping on ice, she'll even cook it as well.  The second gift is her "Persian Pantry" filled with Persian foodstuffs including a 4.6 gram package of Saffron, direct from Khorasan, hand-carried from Tehran less than a month ago.

Brett of In Praise of Sardines is honoring the culinary tradition of the area we are trying to help by putting together a gourmet basket with ingredients needed to make a traditional Kashmiri meal: a selection of spices (including saffron and difficult to find Kashmiri red chilli) and home-made spice mixtures, a traditional spice box (masala dabba), Basmati rice, Indian tea (for masala chai), some North Indian recipes from his wife's family, and Kashmiri recipes gathered from his own collection of 30 South Asian cookbooks.

Alice of Epicurean Debauchery is offering a Make-Your-Own Sushi Starter Kit with roller mats, a shamoji (a rice scooper), recipes, and some seaweed and wasabi.

Elise of Simply Recipes gives two jars of her delicious (speaking from experience) homemade apple butter.

SFist Staff writer Derrick of Obsession with Food, who occasionally contributes to The Art of Eating, is offering a one year subscription to The Art of Eating magazine.

Amy of Cooking with Amy with give the Very Maple Syrup cookbook and her very special homemade Maple Nut Granola.

Owen of Tomatilla, the publisher of Digital Dish: Five Seasons of the freshest recipes and writing from food blogs around the world, is providing three copies of the book for this menu. 

Jen of Life Begins at 30, is donating Three gorgeous local produce prints from her partner Jason, a professional photographer. 

Chez Pim herself is offering up a $200 gift certificate for a meal at   for Manresa, in Los Gatos!

Charlotte of Love and Cooking is offering homemade truffles, her mom's favorite lemon curd, and even some some myer lemons (if you live in the US.)

If none of these local gifts grab your fancy, head over to Pim's site to see what other food bloggers from all over the country and right around the world have offered up for grabs too. And when you have decided what you might like to win, press the button below to go the donation site. You will get one entry for every $5 you donate. *Important* Remember to describe the prizes you want in the First Giving comments section, when you actually leave your donation.