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!
Thanks for the giveaway – these cookbooks look GREAT! I am enjoying the Pioneer Woman's Cookbook right now…love the stories and pictures as well as the recipes!
Well, I have found I really really love getting ideas from food blogs – like yours! I have learned a lot since stumbling on your blog 2 years ago. Keep up the great work and thanks so much for sharing!!
I feel like I haven't read a great cookbook for a while now! Mostly just gotten my recipes from blogs, lately, it seems.
I still go back to the Joy of Cooking from time to time. I also love French Feasts. The photography alone is gorgeous.
I am currently baking my way through "Baked Exporations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented". I must say it has been fabulous so far, as was the orignal "Baked: New Frontiers in Baking" cookbook from last year.
I have to admit that for the last while I've been getting my recipe fixes off the net. My main go-to book that is out weekly is and has always been Better Homes and Gardens, I use it for all my basic, just like my mom.
I'm reading through "Made in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen" – some of the best food photography I've seen in a long time, and I'm loving the novelty of some of the recipes.
What a fabulous giveaway!
I'm currently enjoying the Real Food Daily cookbook. The wasabi vinaigrette, in particular, is proving to be very versatile!
I am THRILLED to know that the Noma cookbook exists. You have made my day. My current scandinavian cookbook with the most sticky notes attached to it is "Scandinavian Feasts" by Beatrice Ojakangas.
"Baking Illustrated" from Cooks Illustrated. You can't go wrong with Cooks Illustrated…
Such a great giveaway! I'm currently enjoying this really old cookbook my dad found for me at a yard sale. I'm not sure of it's name. I love it because it has so many old recipes that you do not see anymore.
These look great! Im reading cooking light!
I'm working my way (out of order, with a lot of repetitions…) through Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. Southwestern mixed vegetable soup is the most warming, hearty, delicious winter dinner ever!
whitwater cooks and good to the grain are in heavy rotation over here.
A World of Cake by Krystina Castella — it's beautiful and very educational for the kids… a cake for every country in the world!
I'm currently focused on "Cookies," the author of which sadly escapes me at the moment. 'Tis the season and all that!
I am LOVING Ina Garten's new cookbook right now.
Lots of easy appetizers for the holidays!
I love cookbooks and these look wonderful!
I am reading One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking. Even though I am not American, I will be adopting some of those wonderful unsung recipes!
I am really loving Nigella Lawson's "Feast"…always good at this time of year.
The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2010. Whew. Say that 10x fast…
I like this cookbook my mom n law made for us. Also, recipies from the internet and this cupcake cookbook I have!
Slow cooker creations.
I love all of my Best of Bridge cookbooks.
My sister and I talk frequently about your site and how we've never tried any recipe of yours that was distasteful…NO! On the contrary, as much as I love my cookbooks, "under the high chair" has become my latest cooking inspiration. It's where I go for what-to-cook-now. Thanks!!
Somehow I ended up being "anonymous"…anyways, I've been using your website as my newest "cookbook"! LOVE everything I've tried.
I am (re)reading How to Eat by Nigella, and occasionally taking a break to read Nobody Does it Better by Trish Deseine.
I am currently enjoying so many but mostly David Lebovitz's Ready for Dessert and the Momofuku cookbook 🙂
Well I already bought the Silver spoon for children on the strength of your review but I could always re-gift it 🙂 If you are willing to part with Noma, though, count me in for the draw, definitely drooling over that one 🙂
I gotta say, my mainstay and most dog-eared cookbook is Bittman's How to Cook Everything so that's the one I pull off the shelf almost every day.
On a side note, I have a huge crush on Phaidon cookbook designs right now and I would be beyond ecstatic to win this prize package…
I recently went to Alabama and came home immediately went to Amazon and bought Southern Living 1,001 Ways to Cook Southern mmmm fried pickles:)
I haven't gotten a new cookbook in ages. So obviously I'm need of a new one! I do love my allrecipes one though.
My current bedside companion is The Flavour Thesaurus. It's so fascinating how they've listed 99 flavours and then made over 4,500 flavour pairings. Some so unfathomable! I'm pretty sure its on its way to become a classic.
I like Nigella Kitchen: Recipes From the Heart of the Home, by Nigella Lawson. She always has gorgeous photos in her books. Great contest and site, by the way!
Currently enjoying How Easy Is That? By Mrs Ina Garten herself 🙂
I recently picked up Quinoa 365. LOVE quinoa! I do wish there weren't so many quinoa flour recipes though, and more good ol' grain!
I'm enjoying learning about bread: The Bread Bakers Apprentice. Bread is impressive, even when not perfect!
I really hope I win this because I seriously want the kids cookbook so bad.
Currently I;m enjoying Crazy About Cookies by Krystina Castella. So good!
I've been using recipes from "Talk About Good", my old standby Cajun cookbook.
Oh my, you're giving away NOMA?! 🙂 I am currently enjoying 'Ready for Dessert' by David Lebovitz.
i`m enjoying " paris sweets " by dorie greenspan, which a friend gave to me. looooooove cookbooks and these all look great.
Wow, what a great giveaway!
I'm currently enjoying "Traditional Portuguese Cooking" (http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Portuguese-Cooking-Lourdes-Modesto/dp/B0007BUADO) – always nice to go back to your roots
Great idea, I love cookbooks and giveaways! Currently, I am dealing with "Pastry" by Michel Roux.
Hugs,
right now I am devouring "The Family Dinner" by Laurie David, oh and "Christmas 101" by Rick Rodgers
I'm loving Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese food for family & friends by Harumi Kurihara and Sue Hudson. Gorgeous pictures, great directions, and simple but tasty recipes. We haven't been out for Japanese since! Even my 5 yr old daughter enjoys some of the recipes (which is a miracle in itself).
I love The grand central baking book, it has the best recipe for artisan style pizza crust in it.
Got a reprint of Julia Child's The French Chef cookbook,
Recipes from the original shows, as well as Bittman's
Food Matters. Rechecking them all for Christmas
cookie ideas.
I'm enjoying Picture Me Cooking… a kids cookbook with a creative twist!
I most frequently turn to "Joy of Cooking" or a little cookbook from a community in WA (Holden Village): "Lavish Simplicity."
I got Jamie Oliver's 'Jamie's Food Revolution' for my birthday and we're currently enjoying cooking out of that. My kids went through and picked out recipes to try.
Its about the third or fourth time I've pulled it out this year, but I'm still enjoying Caprial's Bistro Cuisine, an old book I've had for years.
I was sitting in the lobby and my son's speech therapist's office reading it just yesterday.