I have always loved the pasta peeps at Barilla, the sauce, the noodles it is all very, very, good.  I am 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Italian which equals 1 awesome temper and a 50/50 shot at brilliance whenever I enter the kitchen. Carbs have become the enemy lately, but again pasta is not really bad for you in moderation.  And whole grain pasta is even quite good.  I am very excited by this news from America’s Second Harvest.

Barilla’s whole grains nourish the whole body

As part of Barilla’s ongoing partnership with America’s Second Harvest, they have developed a cookbook full of recipes available for free download at celebrityitaliantable.com. For each download of this cookbook, Barilla is donating $1 to the America’s Second Harvest network. Spread the word and start cooking up wholesome meals while also helping the hungry.

Barilla’s Celebrity Italian Table cookbook features recipes that can substitute their great tasting whole grain pasta, made with 51% whole wheat–delivering three times the fiber of regular pasta. It’s perfect for anyone wanting to add fiber and whole grains to their diet–in fact, 99 pounds of their recent 50,000 pound donation was of whole wheat pasta!

HURRY download your cookbook before March 31 to help out.   And if you make a $125 donation to BARE ASS 2008! which will break the $1000 mark and send me an ecard to wgwafa@gmail.com  I will even make a recipe from the cookbook just  for you!  It’s no COOK YOUR FRIDGE but still they all sound yummy.  Think of it, you will be helping out America’s Second Harvest with your download, Bare Ass 2008! with your donation, and I haven’t had a date in so long (sorry Jeffrey)  that this whole grain pasta will not only have 3 times the fiber, it could be 3 times the charity! CLICK HERE TO DONATE.  Very, very, very good.

*Although considering someone searched phat white ass jellykean to get this blog today- I may be delivering the pasta goodness to a public meeting area!