The Splendid Table Cookbook Giveaway

I'm getting excited about food right now. I think there's a late winter point of despair (to put it in dramatic terms) when I am so sick of soups and the dregs of the 'root cellar' foods. I'm anxious for green and red and oh so much more. While it's still early, I can at least feel it coming. I think it has something to do with making the last installment in our CSA payment for the year, and the promise that fresh! local! yummy! produce will soon be ready for us each and every week. Ah...

Anyway, in anticipation of all that, I've been food-inspired lately. Opening favorite old cookbooks to find new things, and finding new cookbooks to put a spin on the old. One new arrival has been The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award Winning Food Show. Amy shared a great review of it a few weeks back, and everything she said is so very true. I love the stories woven into the recipes. And the recipes are delicious, and well, 'different' than so very many other cookbooks. It feels like a 'fresh' cookbook if that makes sense.

I've actually photographed a bunch of the things we've made from this book in the past month, but this is the only one that I don't fear will have the effect of turning you away from the book. A food photographer, I am not (Delicious photos in the book - I'll leave it to the experts). Above is the Supper Tart of Red Onions, Greens and Grapes. See what I mean? "Different" - we make SOOO much pizza around here, and this was a perfect fresh spin on it for us - on puff pastry (I know, it's a tart, not a pizza, but the kids thought it was pizza). It was so good that looking at this photo is totally motivating me to make it again (for the fourth time) tonight. Yum. Another favorite has been Sweet Roasted Butternut Squash and Greens over Bow Tie Pasta. Again, just the right spin of yummy and new. Oh gosh, and the Retro Garlic Bread! Really good too.

Of course, I wanted to listen to the radio show after falling in love with the cookbook. And thank goodness for the internet (it's not carried on my local radio station), because you can listen to podcasts of the show on their website. (They've also got a really interesting year-long project going on, following 15 people eating a regional diet, each blogging about the experience - Locavore Nation).

As a little treat for YOU, the publisher, Clarkson Potter, has generously agreed to do a giveaway of The Splendid Table's new cookbook. All you need to do is leave a comment on this post before 7am (my time) tomorrow - Friday - at which point I'll choose a random number to send one copy of the book to, and announce it here at the end of this post. Good luck!

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Comments Closed. We have a winner! The Random Number Generator led me to Momma Roar, who wrote:

I'd love some new recipe ideas!! We live in PA in Amish country...where a lot of the meals I make are meat and potatoe AND basic. I'd love to have some new ideas!!

What fun!

Posted by: Momma Roar | May 01, 2008 at 04:45 PM

 

Congratulations! And thanks to everyone for playing!

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Comments

[Rachel]

Sounds like an excellent book, I'll have to give it a try. Yum!

[Tory]

I don't know what I love more...a new cookbook or a giveaway!

[Heather legendre]

I hope I am not too late

[bellablue]

I've been on a cookbook craze, too, these days along with reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (which I'm loving). I finally got an email from our CSA this morning and we can pick up greens next week! Thanks for raving so much about your CSA because it gave me the extra push to delve into it this year! XOX.

[Suzanne]

What great looking "pizza" need to try that!

[Danielle]

Oh, please count me in... yum!

[simply]

sounds like a great book to try :o)

~simply~

[katie]

With a huge box of greens from our CSA, we're ready for something new and fresh! Will add this to our wish list!

[amyj]

I have been wanting to try this book for awhile...love the show. I'll add it to my list, the tart sounds yum!! I am SERIOUSLY craving spring freshness here too.

[Sandy]

Oh, I am so with you on the excitement for food. I almost always have it, but there really is a new sense of excitement that comes with Spring. There are so many amazing cookbooks (which I admittedly am addicted to), but I haven't seen or heard of this one.

Looks amazing!!!

[Kerry]

Oh, oh, oh... I wanna try that!!! Pick my name :) That tart looks amazing.

[Jane]

Mmmm, that tart looks good! Fresh food, how I've missed you....

[Heather]

I hope I'm not too late! I LOVE cookbooks and trying new recipes. This one would be a wonderful addition to my cookbook collection!

[Cathy]

I would love to see more photos, as that "pizza" looks delicious! I hadn't heard of this cookbook before. :)

[Claudia]

A new cookbook would be nice! My collection (3 books !?!) would be happy to have a new friend :)

[Sarah E C]

Oh I love the radio show. My husband I feel so much comfort listing to her voice! I'd love the cookbook just as much.

[heather]

wow! you made this sound so awesome i was just about to head over to amazon to purchase... then i saw a chance to win it! yeah - i'm in! thanks

that "pizza" looks amazing.

[Kate]

We just got first asparugus, and shitake mushrooms from a local farm here, pure delight after weeks and weeks of potatoes and carrots from the root cellar.

[Gretchen]

Can't resist a chance to win something with such delicious things in it!

[Sarah]

I have never commented before - maybe a contest (involving food, no less!) is what it takes! Thanks for your wonderful blog.

[TennesseeCassie]

We're in the complete throws of a delicious spring down here, and have taken to eating dinner outside. The only problem? We sneeze our heads off for the rest of the night! Everything (no, really, everything)is covered in yellow pollen. We were handed down a television the other day. With it came the remote, some cables, and a coating of yellow dust! No doubt we're eating it too...

[Leta]

Yay for new cookbooks (and giveaways)!

[Rachel]

I was just looking at your picks of books a week or so ago and looked this particular book up on amazon. I think I'll see if our local library has it. We listen to lots of NPR at our house and unfortunately (for my waistline- or is it waste line) I love food.

[jen j-m]

oh, i totally want a copy of that book!
xo

[Badger]

Oh! I have been dying to get a look at this book. Our CSA boxes lately have been FULL of greens and we don't know what to do with them! That thing with the red onions and grapes sounds SO good!

[anne]

yum - i'm needing a new spin on things too!

[tony(a) Lemos]

with CSA season just around the corner.....what better time to read a new cook book. i'll have to try and get it through the library. thanks for the recommendation.

[Nancy]

Thanks for pointing out some specific recipes, Amanda. I have the book out from the library and I've done some skimming, but those recipes will give me a place to start (vital in really getting a cookbook into play). And oh how I love the Splendid Table radio show. It calms me, soothes me, results in real meals being eaten around here. Lynne Rossetto Kasper has gone head-first into the local food movement, which I think is so vital to our well-being. Our first CSA pick-up is tomorrow. Woohoo! --Nancy in NC

[kate o.]

oh my, lynne is quite adored in this household. we got to see her at a book signing a few weeks ago. delightful. we download the podcasts and then have "splendid table marathons" on roadtrips. and i agree with you - the recipes are just different enough to make them fresh. you MUST try the basil panna cotta. delicious. and the asparagus/scallion recipe...and the corn chowder...and well, everything.

[mel]

I love the Splendid Table! Please count me in!

[Lola May]

I cross my fingers. Will this book fly to Spain?

[Colleen]

Oh! I've been meaning to look for this book based on what Amy had written about it... now I MUST get it. Sign me up!

[sarah]

I'd like to try for a copy! I am feeling the same way. When you eat seasonally, this time of year is just a bit grim :)

[Christi]

Wow, that looks delicious! Sign me up for the giveaway!

[Kelly]

I love Lynne! Hope I win!

[Tracey]

I collect cookbooks, and use them ALL.......I have been cooking for over 40 years, but am always open to new things.......and I make the dishes for friends and relatives. I love reading your blog......reminds me of my young motherhood days.......loving children, and loving to care for and teach them in a see and do way. Blessings to you and your family!

[Jeannette]

count me in! :-)

[Pamela]

Looks another cookbook to fall in love with! Simple and fresh.

[emily]

looks like a must-read going into this eating season!

[Emily]

Oh that sounds like must have for any cookbook collection!

Farmer's market season has started and I get just giddy walking amongst the Spring veggies each Saturday morning. I'm on a mission this year to find a CSA to join. Unfortunately, it seems that the closest so far is over an hour away. Oh well, the hunt continues.

[amy]

yes please- I will be giving my copy back to the library soon and cry

[Bree]

I wish you lived near me. Lynne Rossetto Kasper is giving a talk about the book in a few weeks. Perhaps I'll have to check it out afterall...

[kara]

7am this morning? Hmm...

[Breckster]

The farmers markets are starting, and I'm looking forward to my first summer in the north east.

[P-la]

Oh wonderful!!! Please add me to the growing list of wanting that book!!

[Elizabeth]

Wow. I am really interested in this book. I'm interested to see how many comments there are today! :>

[Meredith]

I adore looking at cookbooks, even though my cooking skills are still developing!

[Jen]

So can I comment multiple times?!?

[Lisa Z]

I would love this book! This is a Minnesota-based show and my DH and I've always loved it!

Lisa in MN

[angie]

I had to read back over the ingredients in that tart to make sure I read correctly. You are right, a new spin on food combinations.
We joined a CSA for the first time this year. Looking over the harvest list, I know I will need to find some new recipes for produce I've never used before.