Thanks to everyone that entered. Congratulations to Dennis on winning this month’s giveaway! For everyone else, don’t fret… there will be another cookbook giveaway next month! Stay tuned! 

There are plenty of cookbooks that give you excellent recipes to follow, but more often than not many of these are just straight-forward, simplified instructions with little insight in to the how or the why. Enter Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work, easily one of my favorite cookbooks thanks to some extremely smart writing by Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot. 

Amazon.com blurb: Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, husband-and-wife chefs and the forces behind the popular blog Ideas in Food, have made a living out of being inquisitive in the kitchen. Their book shares the knowledge they have gleaned from numerous cooking adventures, from why tapioca flour makes a silkier chocolate pudding than the traditional cornstarch or flour to how to cold smoke just about any ingredient you can think of to impart a new savory dimension to everyday dishes. Perfect for anyone who loves food, Ideas in Food is the ideal handbook for unleashing creativity, intensifying flavors, and pushing one’s cooking to new heights. 

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO ENTER?

NOTE: Entries are now closed for this giveaway.

For your chance to win, you can do any (or all!) of the following:

• Follow The Foodie Journal on Twitter.
• Retweet and favorite this tweet.
• Like The Foodie Journal on Facebook
• After following on Twitter, or liking The Foodie Journal on Facebook, leave a comment letting me know you did so for an extra entry.

The more you do, the more chances you have to win! The giveaway will end at 8:00 pm EDT on Thursday, July 11th. The winner will be announced the following day.

Giveaway rules: Winner must be 18 years of age, and have a mailing address in the United States or Canada (sorry everyone else — it’s a postage thing). Once notified, the winner must reply within 12 hours, otherwise the runner-up will be notified. The winner will be announced here, and on Twitter. Make sure you follow @foodiejournal!