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What’s better than simply pairing wine and food? Why pairing wine and food bloggers and a charitable contribution.

For the third year in a row, the culinary community on the web is coming together to offer items for bidding with the proceeds going to the United Nations World Food Programme. Last year’s event raised an amazing $17,000.

This year my offering to the raffle is a new copy of the Oxford Companion to Wine, third edition. Edited by Jancis Robinson, Slate.com has called this “the most useful wine book ever.” It is amazing in it’s depth and breadth of coverage with 800 pages, nearly 1 million words, and 4,000 entries. It deserves a place on every wine lover’s desk. Heck, it’s so big, it could even be a desk! If you went to your local Barnes & Noble, they would hit you up for $65 for this wine knowledge.

I have a personal connection to the volume since I was honored to contribute 1/900th of the words! Yes, I authored the 1,000 word entry on “politics and wine.” But seriously, I’m sure it is the other 3,999 entries that will make you want this book.

You can bid on this prize in $10 increments. Here’s what you have to do (it’s sort of a sobriety test in its degree of difficulty).

Go to this site and click “give now.” You’ll need to enter an amount for your total donation for this prize AND any others you want to bid on in the charity raffle. My code is WB14. Enter this code in the personal message area. So say you want to bid $50 for this book and $50 for something else, donate $100 and put in WB14 and the code of the other item.

There are a lot of innovative and worthwhile prizes including a dinner with Eric Asimov, some B&B packages, and some very nice wines. So surf over to Vinography to check out the other wine items available or to Chez Pim for the roundup of from the food side of the blogosphere.

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