{"id":6265,"date":"2010-11-11T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2010-11-12T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T21:08:41","slug":"staff-member-fundraising-to-cook-with-gordon-ramsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/11\/staff-member-fundraising-to-cook-with-gordon-ramsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff member fundraising to cook with Gordon Ramsay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6264\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6264\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6264 \" title=\"Cara Boese\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/caraboeseweb.jpg\" alt=\"Cara Boese\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara Boese<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She holds theme nights for her friends, cooking up international dishes and various fondues.<\/p>\n<p>Her hamburgers are lovingly called \u201cbaseball burgers\u201d because the patties are thick, round and juicy, and whenever she makes them, her friends come running.<\/p>\n<p>Now Cara Boese, a senior relationship manager in <a href=\"\/co-op\" target=\"_blank\">Co-op Programs<\/a>, has a new culinary goal. She wants to cook with Gordon Ramsay.<\/p>\n<p>Boese is participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chefschallengeforacure.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chef\u2019s Challenge \u2013 the Ultimate Battle for a Cure<\/a>, a breast and ovarian cancer research fundraiser benefiting the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and the Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre of Mount Sinai Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>If she raises $2,500, she can attend an event with Gordon Ramsay in Toronto on Nov. 20 and 21. If she raises $4,000, she can take a guest with her. If she is one of the top 50 fundraisers, she gets to cook in Ramsay\u2019s kitchen, a dream come true for the amateur culinary artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love to cook,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m a Gordon Ramsay enthusiast. My husband and I have certain shows we love to watch, and whenever <em>Hell\u2019s Kitchen<\/em> is on, it\u2019s like, \u2018Get the kids to bed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boese started cooking in university, when independence forced her to make her own meals. When she travels abroad, she returns with cookbooks. Since becoming a mom (she has a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son), she also enjoys baking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to bring people together,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen people come over, food becomes more of an experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause is also close to her heart. Her mother-in-law recently had 16 rounds of radiation and months of chemotherapy for breast cancer. Her aunt is also a cancer survivor. One of Boese\u2019s close friends recently lost her sister to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Boese\u2019s husband Ryan paid her $100 registration fee for the Ramsay fundraiser and told her to go for it. There\u2019s a time crunch \u2013 Boese has until Nov. 18 to raise as much as possible for cancer research and education.<\/p>\n<p>If Ramsay ever came to her house for dinner, Boese knows what she\u2019d make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d probably have to make him a blue cheese hamburger,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd sweet potato fries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>To sponsor Cara Boese:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.webdonate.com\/Participant\/Cara_Boese.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/app.webdonate.com\/Participant\/Cara_Boese.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=TheBrockNews&amp;loc=en_US\">Get <em>The Brock News<\/em> delivered to your email.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Boese is raising money for cancer research \u2014 and the chance to rub elbows with famous chefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}