'Eat My Blog' raises $3,000 for L.A. Foodbank

‘Eat My Blog’ raises $3,000 for L.A. Foodbank

Dec. 7, 2009 11:12 AM PT

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The Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is $3,000 richer, and lots of Angelenos are a few pounds heavier after the weekend’s ‘Eat My Blog’ bake sale.

‘They came, they bought and we got their money, and that’s what we wanted,’ said Cathy Danh, who blogs at gastronomy and who organized the sale, held Saturday outside Zeke’s Smokehhouse at La Brea and Santa Monica boulevards.

‘We pretty much sold out in the first 2 1/2 hours,’ Danh said this morning. ‘We were sitting inside Zeke’s counting up the money.’

In fact, the sale went so smoothly that another one is planned for the summer of 2010, also to benefit the food bank.

Forty bakers took part in the sale, and no complaints have been registered. Among the bakers was Molly Chester, a personal chef who made her own cream cheese and milled the flour for her cakes, Danh said.

-- Mary MacVean

Photos of bake sale by Cathy Danh

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.