Restaurants around Orlando are showing their support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month with October specials tinged with the color pink. A sampling:
- the strawberry-basil Bayou Bar at 4 Rivers Sweet Shop (100 percent of proceeds donated to Florida Hospital Breast Cancer Fund)
- “Phyllo Our Ta-tas” (sigh), a phyllo pastry with honey, strawberry custard and whipped cream at Taverna Opa (100 percent of proceeds donated to Florida Hospital Breast Cancer Fund)
- the vodka-based Pink Lady at Ravello at the Four Seasons (portion of sales donated to Compassionate Hands and Hearts)
- the ChamPomTini – a cocktail fashioned from vodka, champagne and pomegranate liqueur at Norman’s (portion of sales donated to Making Strides Orlando)
@marandaweisspinup via PaintPFChangsPink
As well, P.F. Chang’s has painted the signature warrior horses that flank their doors pink, and will donate $1 for every selfie with the pink horses posted on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram that includes the #PaintPFChangsPink campaign hashtag, as well as $1 for every spicy tuna roll or California roll sold in the month of October, to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
And if you’re just in the market for some staples, the Ancient Olive will donate $1 from the sale of every single-varietal bottle of extra-virgin olive oil sold in October to Winter Park Memorial’s Pink Out Mammography fund.
We’re having our usual schizophrenic self-wrestling with this whole thing – on the one hand, the pinkification of breast cancer (and of women’s products and issues in general) is downright infantilizing; on the other hand, raising funds for a campaign to encourage women to get mammograms is obviously praiseworthy. But, well, we aren’t going to solve that dilemma today, so let’s just enjoy the marvelously daffy Kay Thompson thinking pink in Funny Face (I love the whole bit but the song starts at about 2:25):
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2014.
