While an undergraduate psychology minor, I learned about any number of behavioral studies involving children that went something like this:

Researcher: Johnny, I'm going to leave the room for just a minute. While I'm gone, don't eat any of the delicious-looking candies on the table in front of you.

Researcher leaves; Johnny shoves two handfuls of M&Ms into his mouth.

And like this:

Researcher: Billy, I'm going to leave the room for just a minute. While I'm gone, please help yourself to as much of the delicious-looking candies as you like.

Researcher leaves; Billy looks at candy, then goes back to his coloring book.

Which is to say that people, even from a very young age, always want what they can't have—and when they can have it, it's suddenly less attractive. I can go days without bread if I'm not thinking about it, but every year when Passover rolls around, bread's all I can think about. It's why I'm a bad dieter—baguettes never taste as good as when you're supposed to be eating a spinach salad (hold the dressing).

But I refuse to feel bad about consuming carbs today, because today, carbs, in the form of Metropolitan Bakery bread, are doing something good. In honor of their fifteenth anniversary, the increasingly ubiquitous Philadelphia bakery will be assembling a fifteen-month calendar to be sold at all Metropolitan locations. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to Project H.O.M.E., an organization dedicated to ending homelessness in Philadelphia.

That's all well and good, but in the end, a calendar is a calendar and you can make your own charitable donations—so you may be wondering what makes this particular calendar post-worthy. Well... You do.

Metropolitan Bakery is looking for fifteen great Metro-stories, Metro-recipes, and memorable Metro-meals to include in the calendar. Metropolitan Bakery always, no matter the location, has an intimate, neighborhoody feeling to me, so the fact that they're keeping things personal, even in their calendar, seems only fitting. Submissions can be emailed to 15@metropolitanbakery.com. No deadline is listed, but the calendar will probably be going to press by July (it has to be available for sale by the Holidays!), so don't delay: write your ode to Marathon's pumpernickel (one of my personal favorites) and send it on over.

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