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First, find a machete (or open a tin) . . .
by Pat Ashworth
%235%23.jpg) NOEL FORD | THE AUTHORS of a best-selling charity cookbook, Recipes for Disaster, have published an online guide to organising frugal lunches to raise money for disaster relief, mission work, or aid projects. Brenda and Gordon Wilkinson, who have raised £21,000 for Tearfund through sales of their book, offer the Wilkinsons’ Seven-Point Check-List for a successful fund-raising lunch. In essence, they put it all down to “effective publicity, a dedicated team of helpers, and good timing”. The guidelines cover everything from maximising media coverage (make sure your event does not clash with another local event) to inviting potential helpers to a planning meeting (do it by phone for best results) and ensuring that technology for the guest speaker is set up and checked. The couple, Tearfund volunteers who came up with ideas for their book after eating rice and beans every day for two weeks in Honduras in 2004, began a two-year search for recipes from around the world. Since many of these can be used for frugal lunches, they are now offering free access to all the recipes online. |
| Starters might include crunch spice bites from Ethiopia — using just flour, salt, sugar, cayenne pepper, oil, and water. Bengali fish in mustard sauce from India or prawn chowder from Peru could be a fishy main course. You could offer sweet-potato puff from Zambia as a side dish, or sury choy (broccoli and cabbage) from China. Milk tart from South Africa might be a tempting dessert. The book is nothing if not practical. Wabul, a banana and coconut smoothie from Honduras, uses ten medium-sized bananas and a medium-sized coconut. “Cut the coconut in half with a machete,” instructs the recipe, recommending in a footnote: “If you don’t have a machete . . . use 1-2 tins of coconut milk.” |
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