Business Students to Publish Cookbook for Operation Smile Fundraiser

From staff reports

In addition to planning several events this fall in support of Operation Smile, students in Sweet Briar’s business management lab also are gathering recipes from members of the College community.

The recipes will be published in the “Sweet Cookbook,” which will be sold to benefit Operation Smile, a non-profit organization that, according to its Web site, is “changing lives one smile at a time.” Current plans are to have the cookbook bound at the Sweet Briar Book Shop.

Each semester at Sweet Briar, business management lab students gain real-world experience planning events and fundraisers that raise money and awareness for a charity. Past beneficiaries have included Habitat For Humanity, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., Operation Smile is a medical charity that corrects facial deformities, particularly cleft lips and palates, in children all over the world. Last year alone, its volunteers performed 10,868 surgeries in 51 countries.

If you have an original recipe you’d like to submit for the cookbook, contact Fallon Niesen ’12 at niesen12@sbc.edu or P.O. Box 853 before Oct. 31. Please include step-by-step instructions, a list of ingredients, prep and cooking times, and your name and contact information. Also include a little about the recipe’s history and a photo of the finished product, if available.