I am off to a blazing start on this MoFo Challenge! Today, dear reader, as you probably know is World Vegetarian Day and, in anticipation thereof, I devised a cunning plan. It was breath-taking in its simplicity: offer great vegan baked goods and they will come!
Yeah, and when they showed up, I also had available some brochures from Vegan Outreach and some podcast sampler CDs from Compassionate Cooks. Let me explain....
Last night I spent most of the evening baking. I made scores of mini chocolate-orange cupcakes, battalions of carrot cake mini cupcakes, great troughs of chocolate-raspberry chewie cookies and hods of ginger sparkle cookies. The overall haul looked like this:
and these were my supplemental materials:
and 
Devious, no?
So, I arrived super-early at work to set it all up. We have a central cafeteria where everyone comes to swipe in, so that seemed like a logical place to host this 'event'. 07:40 in the AM (yeah, I said 'super early!) saw me spreading leaflets and CDs on the table, uncovering cakes, pinning flyers to notice boards and generally having a great time. As you can see, this whole event was carefully orchestrated. I took these pix and stole quietly away.
The general scene:
...and a close up or two:
Anyways, it was not long before folks were happily tucking into the food and by mid morning there was - by all accounts - only a single, solitary choc-orange mini cupcake left. People were obviously too polite to take the last one, methinks! At lunchtime, however, I peeped into the cafeteria to take stock and beheld a scene of utter devastation. Not a single crumb remained!
But even better than that, approx. two thirds of the outreach materials had been picked up and 24 out of 30 podcast sampler CDs had also been accepted. Which means, I hope, that the whole experience provided not only a mid-week morale boost and a tempting, semi-healthy snack but also great Food for Thought.
Which is, of course, what it's all about.
A great day to be vegan, friends!
:)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Happy World Vegetarian Day, 2008!
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5 comments:
Wow. That was so amazing and inspiring.
Kudos to you!!
That is indeed inspiring. The spread and setup looks great. What an awesome idea.
That is a generous offering and a great idea. Why can't you still be working here?
:-)
Eric: Sometimes I wonder that myself! It was fun and I miss you folks!
That is really great that you did that. I'm really impressed! And it's cool that people too those pamphlets. Why vegan is how I became a vegan, so it does work ;-).
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