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cookbook giveaway!!!! BAKE! by Nick Malgieri

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Perhaps you’ve heard of Nick Malgieri: former Executive pastry chef of Windows on the World, author of too many cookbooks to count, winner of too many awards to count, current director of the baking program at the Institute of Culinary Education, has cooked on television with the likes of Julia Child and Martha Stewart… Best if you read the long and impressive biography HERE. See? And I got to meet him. Not only meet Mr. Malgieri, but have lunch with Mr. Malgieri. And while I can hope that such baking greatness and knowledge can float across a restaurant table, I’m pleased to have that (transportable) greatness and knowledge packaged between the covers of Mr. Malgieri’s latest book: bake! Essential Techniques for Baking Perfection.

Each of the 20 chapters in bake! opens with an essential technique taught with gorgeous, step-by-step photographs, followed by variations of the master recipes. The result demystifies the world of baking for the timid or fearful, takes it from the hands of professionals and gives it to you and me. Essential techniques include pastry dough and tarts, cookies, puff pastry, breads and rolls, brioche, Danish pastry, cakes, and biscuits. Recipes include a chocolate meringue tart, ground beef empanadas, fig and raspberry croustades (see him making these on Martha), gruyere and walnut bread, pear and ginger cake, devil’s food bombe…

Have I convinced you of the glory? Well, after I got my hands on my very own bake!, you know what I did? Kind, giving moi? I went to the bookstore (actually, two bookstores, as the bookstore by my house has a pitiful cooking section) and bought you a copy, too. With my very own money. Which means no one is paying me to write this rave review. And also because I’m not giving up my courtesy copy. So to…

enter the giveaway:

UPDATE: Contest is now CLOSED.

Leave a comment on this post before Wednesday, November 3, midnight EST
telling me your favorite thing to bake
(If you fear your oven, just tell me what you’d like to learn to bake. I’ll choose a winner randomly, so there’s no real purpose to the question, just my curiosity.)
Optional: If you follow me on twitter,
come back and leave a second comment letting me know and you’ll increase your chances to win.
details:
Be sure to have an email address attached to your profile or a way for me to contact you in case you win! Winner will be chosen randomly.
I’m afraid my funds are limited… so I have to ask for US address only.
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  1. Sus says

    Favorite thing to bake – normally it would be some yummy savory recipe but recently it has been sugar cookies to decorate with royal icing. Such fun & my kids love it!

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  2. Maranda says

    This may sound weird but…I just like to bake. It doesn't matter if it's bread, cupcakes, or chicken…I love to bake!

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  4. kelly says

    Cupcakes by far although cakes and cookies come in at a close second. I would love to expand to bread, I am a ton to learn in that department.

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  7. Samantha says

    I love to bake anything and everything. 2 nights ago it was a yogurt cake with coconut yogurt, and tonight it'll be some cookies (I have 3 kinds of shortbread dough in the freezer – orange nutmeg, ginger oat, and salty peanut). 🙂

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  9. Kara says

    My favorite thing to bake is pumpkin cake with homemade cream cheese frosting! and during the summer, carrot cake!

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  11. JP says

    I love to bake, and my favorite is bread, though I don't make it much anymore because I never seem to have the time!

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  13. Chef Scott says

    I love to bake biscotti!! So many variations and flavors…and the perfect nibble to go with coffee, ANY time!

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