My sister and her family have just published a celebrity cookbook raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. In the introduction to the cookbook they explain why:"Hello, we're the Alcock family. We live in Birmingham. We are David, Rachel, Charlie (13), John (11) and Louisa (nearly 5). Two of us, Charlie and Louisa, have Cystic Fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetically inherited disease that mostly affects the lungs and the stomach by clogging them with thick, sticky mucus. It is permanent, gradually gets worse, and there is no cure.
That's the bad news.
The good news, at least as far as Charlie and Louisa are concerned, is that sometimes when you have CF you get to eat all sorts of nice food, because putting on weight can be a bit of a problem.
Which is why, when we wanted to raise some money to help with research into CF, we thought of a recipe book.
So we wrote to all sorts of famous people, and asked them to send us a recipe that they really liked to cook and eat. And lots of them wrote back! All of the recipes in this book were sent us, in response to a simple letter from Charlie, John and Louisa by people who very kindly wanted to help us.
Thank you, from us, to all of them ... Every penny we raise will go towards helping not just Charlie and Louisa, but thousands of other people with Cystic Fibrosis."
The cookbook costs £5.00 and includes recipes from: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Benn, Gordon Brown, Menzies Campbell, Jaspar Carrott, Fearne Cotton, Andrew Flintoff, Ainsley Harriott, Ian McKellen, Ellen MacArthur, Philip Pullman, Gordon Ramsey, Cliff Richard, Delia Smith, Benjamin Zephaniah, and many more.
The book makes a great Christmas present. I have a small supply and can get more, so let me know if you'd like one or more!
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Paul Weller - Into Tomorrow.
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