A Cookbook Giveaway (or three)
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Lest you think all the giveaway fun only happens on that other blog of mine, allow me share a very special giveaway opportunity with you today.
Friends at the most amazing Phaidon Press are helping me to give away three of my absolute favorite cookbooks to Under the High Chair readers! Not one, but TWO winners will receive all three cookbooks you see below. Oh yeah! For a couple of readers, your cookbook collection is about to get a lot richer.
Say, did you know Phaidon Press was named as the Best Cookbook Publisher in the World at The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards earlier this year? I know! I just love them. Now here is the awesome thing about these three cookbooks from Phaidon and why I’m so excited to feature them in this giveaway…
There’s a cookbook here for everyone.
The young cook.
The home cook.
The gourmand.
No matter where you fit in those various stages of culinary mastery, one of the following cookbooks are sure to fit you like a glove.
The Silver Spoon for Children
- Title: The Silver Spoon for Children: Favorite Italian Recipes
- Author: Amanda Grant
- Illustrator: Harriet Russell
Yippee! Finally here is a cookbook for my kids with nary a sprinkle or mini-marshmallow in sight. Instead it is full of over forty well-balanced recipes that feature wholesome ingredients such as beans, fish and vegetables. All dishes are depicted with absolutely charming step-by-step illustrations that present cooking as fun – and it already holds the attention of my 5-year old.Noah pounced on The Silver Spoon for Children the second it arrived. He sat down and proceeded to read it for nearly thirty minutes. Have I mentioned he’s five?He then had me read him the recipe for Rigatoni and Meatballs, while he followed along with the illustrations, his finger slowly spanning the page. Well, that was that, we had to make dinner together that very night and we did.
Only we changed it up for spaghetti and meatballs. (Yes, I’m teaching him substitution and adaptation early.)
There’s no question that this is the cookbook that will nurture every seed I have already planted in my boys and help inspire a lifetime love of cooking.What to Cook and How to Cook It
- Title: What to Cook and How to Cook it
- Author: Jane Hornby
This cookbook is the next best thing to having a personal chef demonstrating right in your own kitchen. It really is the ultimate step-by-step illustrated cookbook for adults; each recipe is depicted with clarity and demonstrated with as many as eight photos, leaving little room for question.What to Cook and How to Cook It IS perfect for beginners, but also compelling for experienced cooks as well. I love its clean, simple layout; somehow it makes the task of preparing dinner seem relaxing.
Recipes are classics: Cinnamon Buns, Barbecue Ribs, Apple Pie, Spaghetti Bolognese. You find all of your favorite comfort food on the pages of What to Cook and How to Cook it, and with such tantalizing visuals, you’ll be opening this cookbook frequently.NOMA
Title: Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Author:René Redzepi
Photographer: Ditte Isager
It sounds like the sappiest thing to say, but this cookbook took my breath away when it arrived. I believe I tweeted:
“NOMA! Just received this astonishing cookbook?artwork?manual? from Phaidon. Almost want to weep at the beauty of it. #coffeetablestatus”
After one rapturous trip through the cookbook and its extraordinarily beautiful photos, I immediately cleared a place of honor on my coffee table for Noma.
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine is the new cookbook from chef René Redzepi, a chef who’s passion is to create something from nature. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, holds the prestigious title of, well, The Worlds Best Restaurant. Yeah, serious stuff.
Will I ever cook from it? Never say never, so I’ll say probably, one day. Will I frequently flip through it, sigh over the photographs, find inspiration in the essays and draw from chef Rene’s refreshing philosophies of food and nature? Absolutely.
Boasting 365 pages, 200 photographs, 90 recipes, and an education in Nordic cuisine, Noma is THE most sensational addition to my sizable cookbook collection this year.
Giveaway!!
The prize package includes the following cookbooks from Phaidon Press.
- The Silver Spoon for Children: Favorite Italian Recipes
- What to Cook and How to Cook it
- Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Two winners will be selected to receive the prize package.
How to enter:
Let keep this simple, shall we?
Leave a comment to enter this giveaway answering this question: “What cookbook are you currently enjoying?”
This giveaway will end Friday, December 10, 2010 and 11:59 pm. Good luck to all!
I still enjoy "Simply in Season."
I am reading "Ad Hoc at Home"
A tie between the timeless classics that live on my counter: Fannie Farmer and Joy of Cooking. Always helpful.
Cheers,
*Heather*
I would love to be original but I'm still excited each time I use Jamie at Home. The results are always wonderful.
I am currently enjoying Bite Me by Julie Albert & Lisa Gnat
Every Christmas I pull out my Judith Comfort Christmas Cookbook. My sister bought it for me over a decade ago and it's been a faithful favourite every year.
Jamie's Ministry of Food (not sure what the North Amrican version is called) is a constant go-to for us at home!
I am loving Baked Explorations!
I just scored a bunch of cookbooks from the Discount Book Store. The original Silver Palate Cookbook and a book titled: America's Best Recipes 1989. Guess I could stand to win some new books. Pick me! 🙂
I've been going back to basics with my big Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. Possibly the first I ever bought… or was gifted. I don't recall, it was so long ago.
I'm reading the Top Chef cookbook. Good stories and recipes from previous seasons.
I've had a Williams Sonoma cookbook for years called "Eating by Color" that I love… It groups recipes by the color of the ingredients, so recipes with main ingredients like purple potatoes and blueberries are in one section while broccoli, spinach, and green apple recipes are in another. But I always love adding more cookbooks to my collection!
I can't get enough of Shirley Corriher's Bakewise. I recently made her pound cake, something I've never really enjoyed (always dry) and fell in love with baking again.
Right now I'm obsessed with Robb Walsh's "The Tex-Mex Cookbook". It's like a love letter to my hometown of San Antonio, through food. So far, everything I've made in it has been like going home, without the 4 hour flight. *Loves*
At the moment it's got to be Nigel Slater's 'Tender'.
The cookbook I am currently enjoying is The Sweet Kitchen.
I love the cookbook, "From Asparagus to Zucchini." It helps with our CSA box!
Skimmed through Donna Hay's Modern Classics last night looking for baking inspiration.
I am in the middle of reading Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. I am learning so much about the act of cooking itself, and I'm loving a vegetarian cookbook that doesn't just revolve around tofu (no disrespect, tofu, but there is more out there).
Those are three wonderful books! Here's hoping!
It's Christmas, so I'm deep in my grandmother's copy of the 1947 " Recipes" by the Evangeline Chapter of the I.O.D.E.
This is a book that has recipes with instructions like " beat until creamy" or "add enough icing sugar to make the right consistency". That last one is from Mrs F Scott. Bless her.
Almost all of the recipes have the name of the contributor in modest italics.
I love this book.
Is it boring to say I still love flipping through "How to Cook Everything"? Because that's my answer. Though last night I was at a friend's house and enjoying her Alice Waters' "The Art of Simple Food," and it looks right up my alley.
Thanks, Aimee!
Hollyhocks & Radishes: Mrs. Chard's Almanac Cookbook AND Simply Classic from the Junior League of Seattle
Very nice books! Right now I am enjoying my latest acquisition:The Taste of Africa, recipes from this entire mysterious continent!
All my cookie books, considering the season. The All-American Cookie Book has some great recipes.
Right now I am enjoying Martha Stewart Cookies. Tis the season for cookies.
I have the newest Ina Garten Barefoot Contessa cookbook and there are a number of recipes that look wonderful and I have actually tried out a few already and they are delicious.
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I'm revisiting Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking and finding more dishes I need to make soon.
i love cooks illustrated 'best recipe cookbook' and I always enjoy bon appetit, fast fresh easy for great dinners.
I am currently enjoying the Pioneer Woman cookbook.
I'm really enjoying French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating by Laura Calder. Simple ingredients and recipes and wonderful results. 🙂
I am currently baking my way through The Bread Bakers Apprentice by Peter Reinhart. Loving it and learning a lot about bread in the process 🙂
My daughter would LOVE that first cookbook!!
I'm enjoying David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop… I find I want ice cream just as much in the winter as I do the summer, probably because of all the colds & sore throats! 🙂
Right now I am reading "Cookwise" and picking out some recipes to try. It combines food and science.
I am thoroughly enjoying Nigel Slater's "Tender" for his sumptuous photographs and wonderfully written prose about vegetables. For weekday dinners Michael Smith's "Chef at Home" is a new go-to favourite for salads and Canadian comfort food.
I just got "Poor Girl Gourmet" – also a recommendation of yours. 8)
I have really enjoyed every recipe I have made from "A Homemade Life".
A gift from my mom. 🙂 Good Housekeeping's "The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook".
My current fave is "Pie in the Sky" a high-altitude baking cookbook, but am also loving Friday Night Dinners.
Just checked out Feeding the Healthy Vegetarian Family by Ken Haedrich from the library. We are not exclusively vegetarian, but I love the variety of fruits and vegetables that vegetarian cookbooks use.
I'm reading Pam Andersons cookbook and I'm loving it!
What a wonderful giveaway! I loved your review of all of your top 10 from "Simple Bites."
Let's see, I'm reading through the Trader Joe's cookbook entitled, "The I Love Trader Joe's Cookbook." I've found some new favorites, easy, healthy, with simple ingredients. 🙂
I want NOMA. I'm currently enjoying "The Flavor Bible." Does that count as a cookbook? Because it should.
Just made stew from "Tyler's Ultimate" . . . always a winter favourite of ours. I'm also slowly getting through "The Flavour Bible".
the pw cook book 🙂
Whew – what am I not enjoying right now with Christmas almost upon us? I find myself going back to Josee di Stasio's "A la di Stasio" for her easy but elegant recipes – great Can-con to boot!
We are slowly working our way through Rick Bayless's "Mexican Everyday" and our friends just GAVE us their extra copy of Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa Family Style," so we have amunition for the winter. That Silver Spoon for kids looks so awesome!
I have been reading and cooking from The Best of Chef at Home (by Michael Smith), Jamie's Food Revolution (by Jamie Oliver), and Fresh with Anna Olson (by Anna Olson). I LOVE the chocolate chip cookie recipe from Michael Smith's cookbook, the Fish Pie Recipe from Jamie Oliver's cookbook, and have been drooling over the beautiful photographs in Anna Olson's cookbook!
I love Alice Waters' "The Art of Simple Food"…
Cool. Another giveaway.
My preferences change every month. My cookbook of this month is "1000 recipes for Simple Family Food" by Eleanor Maxfield
I am enjoying Dorie's-Around the French Table.