Il Buco, Time Out For Hunger, Tap Project & Serving Filtered Tap Water

il Buco Participates in Time Out for Hunger Benefiting the Food Bank for NYC, the 2008 Tap Project Benefiting UNICEF, and Officially Announces that it No Longer Serves Bottled Flat Water


Food Bank for New York City
On Sunday, March 2, 2008, il Buco restaurant will graciously donate 10% of its day's proceeds to the Food Bank for New York City, which will then use the funds to help feed the hungry in New York City. Every dollar raised through the program will allow the Food Bank to distribute enough food for five meals! Last year, they raised enough for more than 231,000 meals. This year, their goal is to raise enough to provide more than 275,000 meals!

Time Out For Hunger is a partnership between Time Out New York and the Food Bank For New York City, the city's main supplier of food to soup kitchens and food pantries. Today, more than 2 million people in New York City are at risk of going hungry. Every day, the Food Bank distributes enough food to provide thousands of meals to New Yorkers in need.

www.foodbanknyc.org

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il Buco is proud to announce that it stopped offering bottled flat water in August 2007 due to environmental concerns. il Buco has been serving hyper-filtered water to all "tap water drinking customers" for approximately 10 years and will continue offering this as the only "still water" option at the restaurant. (More about il Buco's water below)

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UNICEF's World Water Day
For one day, March 22, 2008, il Buco's customers will be asked to donate $1 for something they normally enjoy for free: Tap Water.

The Tap Project is a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible drinking water available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF provide safe drinking water for children around the world. Last year, on March 22, the UN's official World Water Day, $100,000 was raised in New York and hundreds of restaurants and thousands of customers supported the Tap Project.

A single glass of water can make a difference for children around the world...

www.tapproject.org

Acqua (From il Buco's Menu)
Water is undoubtedly the most important among all natural components. Due to gravity, water penetrates through soil and rock carrying with it everything it encounters - usually some form of salt or other organic substances. The quantity and the quality of those substances, determine its suitability for drinking.

In this era of industrial and agricultural pollution, we must be concerned about the decomposition of substances such as fertilizers, pesticides, detergents, oils, etc., which produce chemical compounds such as Nitrates, and cause enormous damage to our ecosystem. In the human body, those Nitrates are converted into Nitrites and "Nitrosammine."

"Water is responsible for ninety percent of human health problems"
(Louis Pasteur)

Contrary to popular belief, boiling water does not alleviate the situation. The boiling action, like chlorine, may kill the bacteria, but it does not eliminate any of the polluting substances dissolved in the water.

Even bottled water, so popular today, is suspect. The amount of time in the bottle, the source itself, the storage, all affect the quality and purity of the water.

It is with this in mind that we at il Buco have installed a hyper-filtration system. Our NYC tap water passes through the systems membrane, filtering out all impurities, including nitrates, from the water source. The result is the purest form of drinking water available today. The flavor is clean and crisp and most important, bacteria free and healthy.

We proudly offer our customers this natural filtered water, used for all culinary purposes here at the restaurant.

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