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Cookbook Week – Day 4! Plus a giveaway

Cookbook Week - Day 4

I’m always thrilled to read cookbooks with a singular perspective in life. Whether it’s the beauty of a hand drawn and designed cookbook like The Forest Feast by Erin Gleeson to Molly Wizenberg’s Delancey book that tells the story of how she built a life with her husband and their acclaimed pizza shop, cookbooks can transport you just as much as a good fiction. I’m always happy to explore someone else’s life through the lens of food. I’m also giving away a copy of Erin Gleeson’s gorgeous The Forest Feast cookbook, details at the bottom of this post.[THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED]

The Forest Feast

Erin Gleeson was an accomplished food photographer living the dream in New York City when her husband sudden gets a job in California. So she traded in the urban jungle for the gorgeous woods just outside of Silicon Valley. So, like any adventurous multi-talented person, she decides to create a gorgeous blog and a beautiful accompanying cookbook The Forest Feast to go along with it. From her blog came her cookbook The Forest Feast. Filled with stunning photographs, simple and basic vegetarian recipes (most recipes range from 3 to 8 easy to find and source ingredients), and adorable hand watercolored type and illustrations. This is the sort of cookbook that you want to sit down and explore and hope that one of these days you’ll get invited to one of Erin’s parties. But if not, at least you have the cookbook.

Vegetarian for a New Generation

I have a number of vegetarian friends and it’s never difficult to feed them. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not always looking for new vegetarian dishes that will satisfy me and my partner (who is a devout carnivore). Enter Vegetarian for a New Generation by Liana Krissoff. Taking inspiration from global cuisine, Liana crates recipes that stand on their own, full of bright flavors and colors without resorting to the age old “you’ll never miss the meat” phrase that I personally hate. These are recipes that stand on their own with complex flavors and celebrate the flavors that you get from fresh produce with recipes like Roasted Broccoli with Pomegranate and Tahini, Grilled Sweet Corn with Feta Salad, and Brussels Sprouts with Tamarind-Ginger Dressing. Broken down into seasons, these vegetable dishes recipes are perfect as a main course for your vegetarian and vegan friends as well as a side dish if you really must eat meat during the meal (like my partner often does).

Delancey by Molly Wizenberg

I’ve adored Molly Wizenberg’s blog Orangette ever since I started reading blogs years ago. Her previous book A Homemade Life was one of my favorite food memoirs and so I have been looking forward to Delancey, a memoir of her relationship with her husband and how they started their acclaimed pizza shop. Opening a restaurant is a tough job (something I NEVER want to do, so friends please stop asking me) and the stress of it took a toll on their marriage as well. Filled with wit and humor throughout as well as her warm personality and sprinkles of various recipes this is the sort of book that I want to curl up to in an oversized lounge chair and read at night.

A Simple Feast

It’s not surprise that A Simple Feast by Diana Yen & the Jewels of New York is a gorgeous book. The Jewels of New York is a creative studio in NY focusing on food styling, photography, menu consulting and special event catering. So when they released their first cookbook, you know that the recipes would be elegant and sophisticated without being precious. From recipes like pecan pie with salted maple ice cream; mini pea, mint and feta quiche; and heirloom bean soup with crispy kale, the recipes based on seasonal ingredients are bright and fresh and bursting from the pages. This is the sort of cookbook that will live in my kitchen and not just my bookshelf.

The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetables

The Fabulous Beekman Boys of Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell have developed a multimedia lifestyle company have been called the next Martha Stewart. With their third cookbook The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetable Cookbook, these boys are one step closer to world domination. Of course if world domination is filled with grilled steak and lima bean salad; golden squash, pepper and tomato gratin; and summer squash lasagna rolls I’m totally in favor of letting them take over. Filled with solid easy-to-follow recipes that incorporate beautiful vegetables, this cookbook broken into seasons, is a great source of ideas and recipes for using your CSA box or farmer’s market produce.

Stewart, Tabori & Chang has generously offered to give away a copy of Erin Gleeson’s The Forest Feast to one lucky reader. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below and tell me what city or country you’ve lived in.[THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.]

The fine print – PLEASE READ
By leaving a comment below to enter, you are agreeing to the Official Rules.
▪ NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
▪ VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
▪ You must be over the age of 18.
▪ This contest is only open to U.S. Citizens. Sorry non-US people!
▪ The contest starts as of today, and will run until Thursday, August 28, 2014, 9am PST.
▪ The retail value of The Forest Feast is about $35.
▪ The winner will be chosen by a randomly selected comment. All comments will be numbered and I will use Random.org to pick a random number.
▪ The number of eligible comments below determines the odds of winning.
▪ If there’s a problem with contacting the winner, I reserve the right to award everything to someone else randomly chosen. So in other words, make sure you type in your correct email address if you want the membership and respond within a week to me when I contact you or I’ll give everything to someone else.
▪ The prize is being delivered directly from Stewart, Tabori & Chang. If they have not delivered the prize to you within three weeks of me notifying you of winning, please reach out to me again and I will do follow up to make sure everything is OK. Please keep in mind we are all human and things happen. I will do everything within my power to make sure the prize is delivered in a timely manner.

Special thanks to Rodale Books; Roost Books; Simon & Schuster; and Stewart, Tabori & Chang  for review copies of the books in this post. Though they provided the books complimentary, I was not monetarily compensated for this post and all opinions above are my own.

This blog currently has a partnership with Amazon.com in their affiliate program, which gives me a small percentage of sales if you buy a product through the links above (with no added cost to you). If you are uncomfortable with this, feel free to go directly to Amazon.com and search for the book yourself and purchase it that way.

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Comments

    • Laurel Eden says

      Born in a small town in north central Iowa, lived in Minneapolis, moved to Cleveland, now in North Bethesda, MD.

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  7. Tiffany says

    I grew up on the West Coast, went to school on the East Coast, and am now working in the Midwest – apparently I’m just making my way around the country!

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  8. Julie says

    I’ve had my eye on this book for ages! We live in upstate NY now, but until a few years ago, I had only ever lived in the midwest (OH, MN, WI)!

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  10. Keri says

    These cookbooks today are all gorgeous. I’m drooling over all of them.

    I’ve lived in both Salt Lake City and Humboldt County. They certainly represent a nice juxtaposition of world views.

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  11. Chelsea says

    Only lived in the U.S., but all over: Grew up in Alaska, then to Washington, Orange County, Boston, and San Francisco. Love calling the bay area home now!

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  14. Layne says

    I live in Austin, TX now, but I did my growing up in Arkansas and Mississippi. I have gotten the chance to call Beijing and Dublin home for short periods of time in college!

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  16. Kerrey De Paoli says

    Right now, I’m in Pennsylvania , but I’ve lived in Tennessee , Minnesota, Texas, and Illinois. Hope to live overseas someday!

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  18. Manette Gutterman says

    I’ve not only lived in the US. I’ve lived in the same house for almost 40 years. Believe me, I would move anywhere if given the opportunity!!!

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  19. Sarah says

    Currently stationed in South Texas – I’ve lived in Quebec City, Canada twice (went to school at Universite Laval’s French immersion program), Spain twice (Burgos / Madrid), and spent six months stationed in Komaki, Japan – best six months of my life! I love to travel and take cooking classes wherever I’m at – so far I’ve taken four cooking classes around Japan, a hands-on croissant class in Paris, and over 50 classes stateside. I would love to win “Forest Feast!”

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  23. Dana says

    Overseas, Florida, New York, Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Indiana, Virginia, Illinois, overseas 🙂 home is where I can cook in “my” kitchen 🙂

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  25. sharon says

    was born in PA but have lived almost my entire adult life in MD. i thought that i was only one of a few that was fascinated and addicted to cookbooks. i love the books on your blog and look forward to reading more of your reviews.

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  28. Teslaca says

    I’ve traveled to many countries, but have always lived in the United States in Florida, California and New York.

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  30. Mabel says

    Oh man, I’ve lived in so many cities. Hong Kong (born and raised), Busan – South Korea, Houston-TX, Los Angeles-CA, Washington DC, Richmond-VA

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  31. Suzanne says

    Denver (present), Ft Collins, & Loveland (home of Miss Valentine!), Colorado; Brunswick, Maine; Eugene, Oregon. Thank you for taking time and effort to review these cookbooks! If I was budget-less I’d buy them all but since I’m not it is so helpful to have your reviews.

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  44. Holly says

    I was born in Guam, grew up in Southern California, and spent one year in college in Japan. I’m back in SoCal but would love to try living in another part of the world.

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  50. Mac C says

    I live in Indiana, but every time someone leaves the gate open, I run for Canada. Nova Scotia is my place of dreams. Perfect in every way.

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  56. Katrina says

    Boringly, I’ve only ever lived in the US. Only time I’ve ever been out of the country was to Ensenada, Mexico–which doesn’t count for much. Always happy to say I HAVE been to Hawaii, that should count for something. 😉

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