While all donations of any amount are appreciated with deep gratitude, here’s how you can benefit by helping us.

LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOGETHER!

Making a donation to the production of ‘Christina Cooks’ is an investment Making a donation to the production of ‘Christina Cooks’ is an investment in what I like to call the biggest classroom in the world. When Robert and I began this project in 1997, we had options. We could have gone the route of commercial television and made more money, sat back, and lived easily on those profits. Instead, we decided to stay true to our mission of education on national public television: to help people to have a healthier relationship with food; to provide information that helps people to make the healthiest choices they can and to tread lighter on the planet by way of those choices.

Purely educational (even though I can be funny sometimes), we use our cooking show platform as the vehicle that draws people in and gets them hooked. Gorgeous healthy food will do that. Do we help people? I don’t know; you’d have to ask the thousands of people who email us, or some of the millions of viewers who tune in faithfully each week to discover the impact of food on wellness and how they can use food to live well.

To produce for public television means raising all of our production budget from outside sources; sponsors and donors. Of course, it also means that we control the message; no one tells me what I can and can’t say on the show. I have no advertisers to worry about losing.

But television is an expensive proposition; I am not going to lie. It’s worth it, but we need your support. Hard stop!

The work I do is important; not just to me, but to people who want to live better and healthier lives.

I’ll end by saying, I hope you see the value in what I do as much as I do. But since it’s the holiday season, I thought I would give you all opportunities to get a little something back for giving so generously to me.

$100 or more - you’ll receive a Jonathan’s Spoons Kitten Spoon

$250 or more – you’ll receive a signed copy of my new cookbook, VegEdibles

$750 or more – you’ll receive my three favorite Jonathan’s Spoons

$1000 or more – your name will be acknowledged in the opening and closing special thanks credits of Christina Cooks; and you’ll receive an Ergo Chef Crimson chef knife set

$2500 or more – your name will be acknowledged in the opening and closing special thanks credits of Christina Cooks; and you’ll also receive my three favorite Jonathan’s Spoons plus your name will be entered to win one of our very special trips to Italy, (all expenses paid, including economy airfare)

$5000 or more – your name will be acknowledged in the opening and closing special thanks credits of Christina Cooks; and you’ll also receive a Dolce and Gabbana designer Moka to make yummy espresso in your own kitchen, plus your name will be entered to win one of our very special trips to Italy (all expenses paid, including economy airfare)

$12500 or more – your name will be acknowledged in the opening and closing special thanks credits of Christina Cooks; and you’ll also receive one of our very special trips to Italy, including economy airfare (add a second person for $7500)