March 15, 2004
'Just Desserts' to support Eva Brownman Breast Cancer Fund
Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer, May 3-9
BOSTON — The week of Mother's Day, May 3-9, is the time to indulge in sweets. That is when more than 80 pastry chefs from participating eating establishments will create a unique dessert to aid in the fight against breast cancer. Every time that "special dessert" is ordered, 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Eva Brownman Breast Cancer Fund, a non-profit, grassroots organization that supports breast cancer research and education at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The 5th Annual "Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer" is a sweet way to help battle breast cancer while treating the special women in our lives. This dessert promotion, organized by the Eva Brownman Breast Cancer Fund in conjunction with Boston Magazine, the Professional Pastry Guild of New England, Charles River Publishing and CBS4 TV, involves more than 80 restaurants, bakeries, and cafes in Boston and in many of its suburban communities.
Marjie Brownman Shapiro and her sister Carol Brownman Sneider, in association with relatives and friends, developed the Eva Brownman Breast Cancer Fund in 1991 in honor of their mother, Eva Brownman, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 1973. The development of this organization was done in hopes that no child would lose a mother, no husband a wife, no mother a daughter, and no one a friend to breast cancer, and that no other women would have to go through the pain and anguish of this disease. Since the Fund began, it has raised over $600,000 for Dana-Farber.
For more information about this event, including participating restaurants and chefs, visit. www.bostonbakesforbreastcancer.org.
