Monday, April 21, 2008

Bloggy GiveAway Returns!

It's time for another Bloggy GiveAways Quarterly Carnival over at "Don't Try This At Home."

Once you leave a comment to win my giveaway - head on over to the carnival and try to win something else too.


My give-away is a brand new copy of the book called "Field Guide To Produce...How to identify, select, and prepare virtually every fruit and vegetable at the market". The book includes color pictures.

I like this book b/c it includes alternative fruit and vegetable names (good for researching), history, storage, ripening techniques, preparation methods and some recipes.

This book does not include a whole lot of global produce - but it's still a good guide to the more likely items you'll find in a larger supermarket that carries some "exotic" produce. I slip my copy of this book into my purse when I go shopping. I liked it so much that I bought another copy to give away to one of my few faithful readers - or to one of my soon-to-be-faithful readers.

So if you are wanting to take an adventure on the food frontier with us - all you have to do is leave a comment on this post with your name and your blog URL or email address so I can contact you if you are the winner.

This giveaway is open to those with an USA address. I'll be out of town until Sunday - so when I get home, I'll close the drawing and pick a name.

Only one comment per person.

106 comments:

  1. Oh, I hope I win the book this time. I still haven't decided what to giveaway!

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  2. I so so so need this book.

    We joined a CSA last summer and I needed help id-ing and cooking some of the neat veggies. Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  3. This is a fantastic prize! I would love to win this -- please enter me.

    maria@jubileeonearth.com

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  4. This is the perfect book for me! I would LOVE to win it!

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  5. I'm always trying to figure out how to pick the best stuff. Pick me!

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  6. I would love this! I never know how to select and store produce!

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  7. I would love this for farmer's market season!

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  8. I would love this book! I'm so bad at choosing/storing veggies!

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  9. I am really making a conscious effort to add more fresh fruits and veggies to our diet, but there are some things that I just don't know how to prepare. I could see where this would be particularly helpful if we start going to the farmer's markets this summer and trying new produce that is in season. I would love to be entered in your giveaway.

    Michelle
    www.northofthe49.com
    michelle (at) northofthe49 (dot) com

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  10. This book would come in so handy!

    cara_ann54@hotmail.com

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  11. This looks like an interesting book!

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  12. I totally NEED this book! My friend and I run a produce co-op. I never even knew there was a field guide for us!. Someone should mention the authors name too, how funny!

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  13. Oh nice, what a great book to add to anyones collections.

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  14. We have been trying to eat healthier and by doing that trying new fruits and veggies. Half of them I have no idea how to prepare. This would be perfect!

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  15. I'd have such a fun time with this book! I'm trying to expand my eating habits but I'm a little overwhelmed by the variety of produce--how on earth do I prepare some of it? So please enter me in your giveaway.

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  16. This would help so much. I am always picking our beautiful looking apples and oranges at the store, only to get them home and discover the apples are mealy and the oranges are dry. I also have no idea how to pick out melons, or to properly store produce. I'd love to win! Thank you for the chance =)

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  17. I love this series. I have the book on stains and it is really a handy thing to have!

    please stop by and enter my contests, too

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  18. This would be great! We signed up for CSA and would love to have ideas of how and what to make with all the produce we get!

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  19. What a useful giveaway! Please count me in :-)


    fiordpiner [at] yahoo [dot] com

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  20. What a great giveaway! I'm trying to buy more produce, but I don't really know much about what I'm looking at beyond the basics.

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  21. I could use this at the farmers market for some of the unusal produce

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  22. Hello, Your book sounds very interesting and I know I could learn a lot by reading it. I am also a vegetarian and would learn about more exotic produce. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks,Cindi
    jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

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  23. This sounds very helpful! Enter me, please!

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  24. Looks like a wonderful book. Great giveaway.

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  25. The book looks great. My husband and I are trying to live a vegetarian lifestyle at home and the more veggie help we have the better!

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  26. Would love this book!
    Thanks for the giveaway! Sign me up! ( :

    In Christ,
    Mandi

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  27. We're participating in a CSA this summer. They promise a wide selection of produce. Many things I've never prepared before. This book would really come in handy!

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  28. Oh, neat! I'd like to try out our farmer's markets this summer, but was wondering how I'd know what to do with some of the things I'd find there - this would be great!

    Fizz
    fizzledink AT gmail DOT com

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  29. This sounds terrific! I have been cooking with whole foods for years, but our vegetable "palette" has been severely limited. I really need to figure out how to cook a greater variety!

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  30. Wow, this sounds like a great way to figure out how to cook some of the more obscure produce out there that I've not tried yet.

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  31. I'm looking forward to farmers market season and this would be a great resource! Thanks :)

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  32. Wow! I didn't know that this book existed until now! I would LOVE to have a copy of this book! Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  33. That looks like a fascinating book! My email addy is in my blogger profile, just in case I win!

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  34. This looks like a great book. I do not eat meat, so this book would be very useful.

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  35. Great prize. We are waiting for our farmers market to open. This would come in handy. Our goal is to start eating more fresh fruit and veggies.

    Jennifer
    dj3hill98 (at) bellsouth (dot) net

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  36. I'm a vegetarian and this book will be a big help when i'm shopping in the outdoor market when we move to south east Asia in July.

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  37. Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  38. I need this book-I could use some help with how to store things.

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  39. This would be such a wonderful book to own! I've seen it in the bookstore and know I'd like it.
    digicat@sbcglobal.net

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  40. This sounds like a great reference! I'm always wondering how to tell when things are ripe (One of those things they don't teach you in school... yet I use the quadratic equation all the time...).

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  41. We have the other field guides at work, but I haven't seen this one. This sounds wonderful! Thank you!

    art and nature [at] juno dot com

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  42. Could really use that. Thanks for the giveaway. katie_mmartin(at) yahoo [dot] com

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  43. Wow. This looks interesting. Please enter me.

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  44. This book would help me "sneak" some interesting veggies into the "teenage garbage disposals" that are my children.

    Thank you for doing this giveaway.
    Tiffany Rosson
    tiffanyannrosson AT yahoo DOT com

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  45. I could really use this book. I always pick out something wrong at the store. Then it doesn't keep by the time I am ready to use it. Thanks for the chance!

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  46. Sounds like a great book! Count me in!

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  47. that would be awesome! I think our produce guy would love it if I didn't constantly ask him to chose me some good produce

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  48. Looks like a fun book! Thanks for having this.

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  49. I would love to read this. Sounds interesting Thanks

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  50. I could use this book
    KawaiiNeko2008 (at) aol (dot) com

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  51. Very interesting. I think it would get me to use more exotic fruits. Thanks!

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  52. GREAT giveaway!
    I could really use this is I am attempting to teach myself how to cook. I always have a heck of a time picking out say...Avocados! LOL

    Hey, if you have a chance, please stop by and visit my contest page too!
    http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com/?p=41

    my email is:
    racoo.smith at gmail dot com

    Thanks and have a lovely day!

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  53. sounds great! i had to go online ealier this week to make sure i was preparing a certain fruit correctly, so i could really use this!

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  54. I checked this out from the library once and LOVED it.

    I have the hardest time finding ripe cantaloupes!

    Thanks! ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )

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  55. Looks like an excellent addition to have in the cooking library!

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  56. Looks like a great book! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  57. That looks like a really neat book! Thanks for offering it!

    Tamara (AK)
    mrshuntinak AT msn DOT com

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  58. I could so use this! I shop at the farmer's market every week.

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  59. I didn't even know such a book existed!! We've been trying to branch out some and this would at least make sure we are picking ripe produce!

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  60. Thats awesomeness!!! I have a farmers market nearby and that would be helpful!

    I am running my own bloggy carnival over at Seven Dogs and a Baby in honor of Connor's first birthday. There is over $530 in prizes! Go check it out!
    http://www.sevendogsandababy.com

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  61. This would be a great book for a newby in weight watchers.

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  62. What a useful book! Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  63. I can see how this book would be a wonderful resource! Great giveaway :)

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  64. Sounds like a wonderful book to have on hand. Thank you for the great giveaway

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  65. That book looks like it could definitely come in handy, count me in =)

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  66. This would make it so much easier when shopping at the Farmer's Market.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  67. Please enter me. I can always use any extra tips when it comes to healthy food. Thanks.
    Heidi
    sweet_soul_sistermi@yahoo.com

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  68. sounds like a book to have handy

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  69. What a fun book! Please count me in!

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  70. Sounds like a book I want ti discover.

    InternationalFreebies.net == internationalfreebies AT gmail DOT com

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  71. I could use this, seriously. I love eating, feeding to my family, and learning about new ways to prepare fruit and vegetables. This would be a very useful book. Thanks for thinking to offer something like this.
    I'm at 4bizkidz@bellsouth.net.

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  72. This would be helpful at the grocery store!



    egreca [at] hotmail [dot] com

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  73. We have a share of an organicly grown farm and pick up our basket every week - it would be great to have ways to prepare some of the things that I am not familiar with making! I'd love to have this book:)

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  74. Cool book! Please count me in. Thanks!

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  75. I try to buy locally and seasonally. this book would be helpful. thnx

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  76. That was a VERY interesting one! Seriously interesting.

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  77. Amazing amount of great, actionable advice. I will keep coming back to this for a while to try and implement many of these! Thanks!

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  78. This is such a helpful reading material for me, I’ve learned a lot of new things. Thanks for the great post!

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  79. Thanks for knowing exactly when to tell me what I want to hear, when I want to hear it the most.

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  80. That was a VERY interesting one! Seriously interesting.

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  81. That was a VERY interesting one! Seriously interesting.

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  82. Thanks for sharing that. It was fun reading it. :-)

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