Feed Art, Not War
I am writing you because you are someone who cares about food, family, and community. As 2007 ends, and we approach the Presidential election, it is important that we bring these issues to the forefront because diabetes is on the rise, the farm bill is still in limbo, and the price of organic food is more than a Big Mac and supersized fries.
We, here, at the Cooking Show con Karimi y Castro, offer you a proposition:
Join us in our quest to bring the revolution to one kitchen at a time. Where everyone learns to eat with their families, communities, learning revolutionary recipes in order to cook as a community and dialogue about the issues important to our stomachs and hearts.
We have traveled over tens of thousands of miles this past year — from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where we cooked an alternative super bowl meal to Alaska where we served Lumpia in celebration of Filipino and Latino farmworkers, getting audiences from Minneapolis to Off-Broadway to Houston to open their hearts to diversity of the palette and their community. We call it spreading tasty consciousness.
Next year, we have been invited to Singapore, the SF Bay Area, Minneapolis, Houston, Philadelphia, and back to New York. Over 15 shows are scheduled next year! More shows keep being added because the people are hungry.
However, it is difficult to cook for hundreds and thousands of people without the necessary funds to support our team.
How can you help? Support kaotic good productions, the producer of the Cooking Show, with a tax deductible donation to support the administrative costs, general operations, and educational initiatives for the show. And, keep money from funding a war that keeps more people from eating as a family and causes societal indigestion.
Your donation of $25 (or how ever much you want) will feed art, not war. You will feel safe that your money is going to help kaotic good productions raise the $10,000 we need to match the donations from our sponsors. (Remember, this year we were sponsored by Whole Foods, Wedge Co-op, H.E.B., and others.)
And for those of you that can give $1500 or more, we will place you in our Circle of Progressive Power because it is you that gives the capitalistic power that we need to keep our tasty progressive culinary consciousness going.
You can donate by a check payable to Asian Arts Initiative, our fiscal sponsor. (Don’t forget to put kaotic good! in the memo of the check) Please send it to
kaotic good productions
p.o. box 1292
Newark, CA 94560.
You can also donate electronically at the kaotic good site at merococinero.com.
Time is running out if you want your tax deductible donation to count for your 2007 taxes.
Thank you for your time and your support.
Pass the peace,
Mero Cocinero Karimi