Proceeds Benefit Young Lawyers Section Soup Kitchen Project
by Tom Ciuba
This holiday season, the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) offers attorneys throughout the state a chance to help the less fortunate. The CBA has published From Court to Cuisine, a charity cookbook to benefit the Young Lawyers Section (YLS) Soup Kitchen Project.
Edited by Livia DeFilippis Barndollar, CBA past president and self-proclaimed “food aficionado and cook,” the cookbook features more than 80 favorite recipes from CBA members and staff. The CBA will donate proceeds from sales to local soup kitchens in Hartford, Norwalk and New Haven, Conn. This fall, members of the CBA’s YLS have volunteered at those soup kitchens; they will continue to do so through the spring.
“What I learned last year as President of the CBA, is that cooking and sharing of food is a bond among Connecticut attorneys,” Barndollar said. “Most of us are blessed to consider everyday what we want to eat and not to wonder if we will eat. This cookbook is another avenue through which we attorneys can carry out our passion for helping others.”
Copies of the cookbook are $7.50 each, and can be ordered by calling the CBA Member Service Center at (860)223-4400 or by visiting the CBA Online Store at www.ctbar.org. Additional donations to the soup kitchens are also welcome.
The Connecticut Bar Association is a membership organization serving Connecticut attorneys and the legal profession by working to advance the principles of justice, the practice of law, the image of the profession, and public understanding of the law.