06/10/08 Potato recipes for relief

The United Nations has dubbed 2008 as the International Year of the Potato. The Idaho Potato Commission is using that promotion to help feed some of the needy. Commission CEO Frank Muir says American chefs are posting their favorite potato recipes on the idahopotatoes.com website each month. MUIR "Every time a consumer clicks on that recipe we are donating ten cents, up to 50 thousand dollars to UNICEF at the end of this year." A kudos to the chefs who are part of the fund raising effort with the potato commission. MUIR "Michael Symon is a two time Iron Chef winner off the Food Network kicked it off in February so that is the caliber of chefs that are on this program and they're doing it at no cost. They're donating their time, their recipes. Many of them are doing interviews across the country in their local markets and they're all supporting this effort to raise money for UNICEF." The plan now is for the Idaho Potato Commission representatives to travel to New York in December or January and present the check to the UN so that it can help feed starving children. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott