CALGARY: Of hot dogs & bread for charity

Here’s how you can get fantastic fresh bread in Calgary while supporting a good cause at the same time. U of C graduate student Aviv Fried, who bakes organic bread at home, decided to put his talent toward helping CODE, which builds and supports libraries and schools across Africa.

Every Monday afternoon, he delivers his freshly baked loaves ($6) on his bike to homes and offices around downtown Calgary. You can also upgrade to the recession package ($12) a loaf of bread and some pâté/spread, or the bread and charcuterie deal.

What kind of bread are we talking about? Loaves Aviv has baked in previous weeks include Normandy apple bread, five-grain, cheese bread, roasted potato and rosemary, and ciabatta.

The web brochures haven’t been updated in several weeks, but I emailed Aviv and he assures me that he’s still going strong. Next week’s bread is multigrain, and the recession add-on is bourbon cherry butter.

He’s already met his goal of $2,500 to support the Chitenga F. P School library in Malawi for a year and its 1,451 students, but will continue to raise money for CODE projects.

Click here for more information. Aviv has also started selling his products at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market on Wednesday (1320-5th Ave. NW from 3:30-7:30 p.m.).

(Thanks to Christina F. for the tip!)

On a totally unrelated note, I had no idea the first Tubby Dog Day was being held in Tompkins Park last weekend.

But Calgary photographer Duncan Kinney made this video to show us what we missed. And really, kudos to the lovely lady for making devouring a Tubby Dog look dainty.