12/2-Celebrity Chef Sunny Anderson, Bob Friedland

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Celebrity Chef Sunny Anderson Launches Holiday Cookie Pledge Drive for Deployed U.S. Troops


For the hundreds of thousands of deployed troops away from friends and family during the holidays, nothing says 
“home sweet home” like a box of cookies.  

This holiday season, Kenmore “Baking for the Troops” is sending 250,000 cookies overseas to remind troops they are appreciated.  

Kenmore is encouraging Americans to simply pledge a dozen cookies on the Kenmore Facebook page and they will send encouraging messages with sweet treats to individual troops on their behalf.  When 250,000 cookies have been pledged, Kenmore will donate $50,000 to Heroes at Home to support military families on the home front. 

Pledge a dozen cookies to a deployed military person by joining the Kenmore “Baking for the Troops” conversation at http://www.facebook.com/kenmore. 

About Sunny Anderson: Sunny is one of the newest additions to Food Network's popular "In the Kitchen" weekend block with her series, Cooking for Real. Sunny also hosts the primetime series, How'd That Get On My Plate? which follows the fascinating journey of a single ingredient (such as eggs, garlic, honey or apples) as it moves from its raw state into finished, iconic products.  

An Army brat, her parents always encouraged her to try the local cuisine. And when Sunny joined the Air Force she continued her global trek for culinary finds. 

Sunny served as Food & Lifestyle editor at Hip Hop Weekly Magazine where she interviewed hip hop stars about food, cooking and the restaurants they love in her column, “Belly of the Beats.”


Bob Friedland-Toys R Us
Bob will discuss this year's Christmas Toy line.

Toys“R”Us, Inc. is the world’s leading dedicated toy and juvenile products retailer, offering a differentiated shopping experience through its family of brands.  It currently sells merchandise in more than 1,560 stores, including 848 Toys“R”Us^® and Babies“R”Us^® stores in the United States, and more than 510 international stores and 200 licensed stores in 33 countries and jurisdictions.  In addition, it exclusively operates the legendary FAO Schwarz^® brand and sells extraordinary toys in the brand’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

With its strong portfolio of e-commerce sites including Toysrus.com,Babiesrus.com, eToys.com, FAO.com and babyuniverse.com, Toys“R”Us, Inc. provides shoppers with a broad online selection of distinctive toys and baby products.  The company also operates Toys.com, which offers customers exclusive deals from the company’s e-commerce sites.

Headquartered in Wayne, NJ, Toys“R”Us, Inc. employs approximately 70,000 employees worldwide.  The company is committed to serving its communities as a caring and reputable neighbor through programs dedicated to keeping kids safe and helping them in times of need.

Toys“R”Us, Inc. operated as a public company from 1978 until July 2005.  At that time, an investment group consisting of affiliates of Bain Capital Partners LLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Vornado Realty Trust completed an acquisition of Toys“R”Us, Inc. for $6.6 billion.  The acquisition encompassed all worldwide operations of Toys“R”Us, Inc., including the Toys“R”Us and Babies“R”Us businesses. With the completion of this transaction, each of the investors owns an equal stake in Toys“R”Us, Inc.