Don Genova's Blog

Contest Winners - The Guy Can't Cook

Sorry for the delay, everyone, but the winners of the Food For Thought contest for the two copies of The Guy Can't Cook cookbook are:

Connie Whalen of Bathurst, New Brunswick and,
Mary-Anne Stark, somewhere in southwestern Ontario, I believe.

Thanks to everyone who entered.  If you didn't win and you'd like to order the book online, follow this link to amazon.ca and save 37 percent off of the cover price.  If you live in Vancouver, you can always visit either of the locations of Barbara-jo's Books to Cooks, where she has cut many of her prices to reflect the American/Canadian dollar parity.

All You Can Eat, Vol. 42 - One Smart Cookie

This woman is One Smart Cookie!  She is Julie Von Rosendaal, and she helped me bake healthier cookies on this edition of All You Can Eat.  Julie has a blog, as well, so if you want to check out what's going on in her crazy cookie-cutter life, check out Julie Was Here.
Listen to the podcast by clicking here. 

Oh yeah, the contest winner from All You Can Eat. vol. 40 is Debbie Vargo!  She picks up a copy of Cinda Chavich's 'The Guy Can't Cook'.



One Smart Cookie is an updated version of the original version Julie wrote several years ago.  I like this book a lot, as it's one of those cookbooks that have you saying as you page through it, "oh, I want to make that, and those, and these, too!"

You can order the cookbook through Amazon.ca by clicking here, and you'll help me support the costs of this blog while saving 37%!

This episode of All You Can Eat was brought to you by Hamilton Beach, makers of the new Eclectrics line of home appliances.  Here you can see the fantastic looking and working Apple Green Standmixer I used in this episode.  To find out more about this mixer and other appliances in the line, American listeners should go to Hamilton Beach.com, while Canadian listeners can visit Hamilton Beach.ca.

All You Can Eat is a member of the Culinary Media Network, where we have a cookie baking challenge on the go, so make sure you listen to the podcasts of other members. 

All You Can Eat is also brought to you in part by www.godaddy.com, where you can find all your web domain needs.  Go shopping there and enter codes eat1, eat2 or eat3 to save.

Food For Thought - The Guy Can't Cook

This week on Food for Thought, meet Cinda Chavich, author of 'The Guy Can't Cook'.  Click here to listen to the audio file.  Cinda is based in Calgary, but visited my kitchen in Vancouver yesterday to teach me how to whip up chicken saltimbocca and saffron risotto.  To see photos from our cooking visit the Facebook album I created.

CONTEST!! I have two copies of the book to give away, thanks to Whitecap Books.  Just scroll down to the bottom of this page and enter a short note into the 'Comments' box about your guy who can, or can't cook!  Dining disaster or sublime saucy success, I want to hear both kinds of stories.  Contest Deadline is Friday, October 19th.  Go for it!  (please let me know what city or town you are writing from in case some of the CBC Radio stations across the country want to read your entry)  The contest is NOW CLOSED.  Winners announced soon!

Pictured at left is the chicken and risotto dish Cinda walked me through.  If you can't wait to see if you win the book, you can always order it right now through amazon.ca and save 37% off the cover price!

Pacific Palate - Contest Winners Announced and My Secret Revealed

This morning I broadcast my last edition of Pacific Palate on The Early Edition, after 10 years of memorable meals. 

On Saturday I climb on board a plane in Vancouver and late on Sunday afternoon I'll arrive in Parma, Italy.  From there it's a short hop to Colorno, where I will be living for the next year while I take a Masters of Food Culture program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, otherwise known as Slow Food U!

Don't worry, I'll keep writing on my blog as often as possible, and will still be producing my Food For Thought program for CBC Radio One, and my Podcast, All You Can Eat for Podshow.com.

If you want to try the lasagna recipe I talked about on the Early Edition, which was very ably executed by my wife Ramona this weekend, you'll find it here.

And thanks to everyone who entered the contest, there are some truly great stories, and I encourage you to read them by going to the bottom of this posting.

The winner of the dinners for two at Nu, Rare and Senova is Dee Taylor of Maple Ridge.

Daphne Spencer of West Vancouver won 11 different culinary books from Raincoast Books, Douglas & McIntyre and Whitecap Books.

And Nancy Carpenter of Vancouver won the Breville Panini Press pictured above, courtesy of Breville and Ming Wo Cookware in Chinatown.

Thanks to all of my listeners over the years of Pacific Palate and to all the people I have interviewed who helped make the show what it was, the best-tasting show on the radio!

Ciao for now,

Don

Pacific Palate - even more prizes!

Great news...Raincoast Books has thrown a veritable pot pourri of culinary books into the Big Bang prize package, including:

How I Learned to Cook
Kathy Casey's Northwest Table
Michael Chiarello's Flavoured Oils and Vinagars
World Food Cafe
The LAtin American Kitchen
The World of Spice
Duchy Originals Cookbook

You only have until Monday, November 13th to enter the contest to win these books and more from Douglas and McIntyre and Whitecap Books, as well as a Breville Panini Press from Ming Wo Cookware and dinners for two from Nu, Rare and Senova.  Tell me about your Most Memorable Meal!  Go to this page to enter.

Pacific Palate Contest - Your Most Memorable Meal

November 13, 2006  UPDATE:  Contest entries are now closed.  Thanks to all of you for sending in some wonderful entries.  Winners will be announced and notified on November 14th. After ten years, Pacific Palate on CBC Radio's The Early Edition is coming to an end. There's a reason behind my departure, and I'll reveal all the why's and where's on November the 14th.

In the meantime, to reward my loyal listeners, we are running a fantastic contest you can win by telling me about your most memorable meal...all you have to do is scroll down to the comments section of this page, and write no more than TWO PARAGRAPHS about your most memorable meal ever.  We'll read some of the entries on the air, and on November 14th we'll announce the grand prize winner.  The deadline is noon, Monday, November 13th.

The grand prize so far includes dinners for two at three of the best new restaurants in Vancouver:

Nu

Rare

and Senova.  For an updated list of prizes, (yes, there's more!) click here.

For me, my most memorable meal of recent times came this spring in Italy, with my wife Ramona at a tiny little bistro in Rome.  It was the perfect lunch, joking with the waiter, being able to point at a dish of large, tenderly braised artichokes in the kitchen and having them delivered seconds later to our table, toothsome pastas, and an amazing appetizer of fresh cantaloupe, arugula and prosciutto.

I look forward to hearing your stories about your most memorable meal!  ...and good luck in the contest.

"Planking Secrets" contest winners and upcoming opportunities to win!

Congratulations to Ron Hartman and Diane Nation!  They are the winners of a copy of Ron Shewchuk's 'Planking Secrets' cookbook.  Thanks to all of you who entered.

Upcoming contests:  Tuesday, June 20th on Pacific Palate, listen in for your chance to win an entire flat of Fraser Valley strawberries!

And in a couple of weeks, a contest in which you can win one of Anthony Bourdain's books, ranging from his first best-seller, Kitchen Confidential, to his latest collection of writing, The Nasty Bits.