Gourmet Wisconsin Food And Art To Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Wisconsinmade.com is honoring breast cancer patients, survivors, and their families this October by donating 10% of its sales to the Breast Cancer Coalition, and to the Breast Cancer Recovery Organization. Wisconsinmade.com is a gourmet food and fine-gift store which sells products made by Wisconsin artisans and small businesses. It was founded ten years ago by Linda Remeschatis following her own victory over breast cancer. For the past eight years, Linda has given her thanks to the many people who helped her back to health by making these generous donations to breast cancer organizations.
But Linda has done more than just give money. She's asked Wisconsin artisans to help in raising breast cancer awareness. She encourages artisans to create food and gifts that symbolize the breast cancer fight. And artisans have generously responded. This month Wisconsinmade.com features gourmet foods such as pink ribbon, hand-decorated sugar cookies, chocolate turtle candies with pink ribbons of icing, and a party-sized, cherry kringle in the shape of a large pink ribbon. Wisconsin jewelery-makers and ceramics artists responded by creating special breast cancer awareness pendant necklaces and commemorative stepping stones for the garden .
Since Wisconsinmade.com's inception, Linda has sought to showcase books by Wisconsin authors who write about cancer and help readers meet its many challenges. Eating can be a major difficulty for cancer patients, so for people who love cooking and good food made easy, Wisconsinmade.com offers a wonderful cookbook called The Cancer Survival Cookbook. It was written by Dr. Christina Marino, MD and nutritionist, Donna L. Weihofen, RD of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's oncology and radiotherapy clinics. The book has dozens of recipes and thoughtful, nutritional advice for cancer sufferers. More personal accounts of living with cancer are found in Judith Strasser's book, Facing Fear: Cancer and politics, hope and courage. The book is a psychological aid to all of us who must distinguish real fear from debilitating anxiety in order to recover from illness or trauma. A third inspiring book is called During...A Couple's Intimate Experience With Breast Cancer Treatment co-written by Jody Glynn Patrick and Kevin Patrick about how love grows and sustains. They write honestly about daily coping when the challenges of work, home, and family don't stop just because you've got cancer. These books are practical and hopeful guides for people traveling the difficult path of serious illness.
Breast cancer is such a pervasive illness that we all know women who crrently suffer from it, recovered from it, or tragically lost the battle. By all of us coming together to support families living with cancer, we can ease the pain as we race for the cure. Thank you for reading this post, and we hope you will do what you can to help.