My publisher, Chronicle Books launched a fun Give Books campaign yesterday. They are partnering with authors, artists and blogs to encourage people to give books for the holidays and I’m helping them spread the word. Books are a perfect gift don’t you think. There’s one for everyone. For every age, for every interest. They are personal and the right one can really show the recipient how much you care. They feel good to hold and they make you feel good to give.
I know because I’m giving away 10 books courtesy of Chronicle Books.
I stuck with all cookbooks and I tried to find a good mix for keeping or gift giving. It’s up to you.
Want to see which ones I picked from their website?
Good… let’s check out some sweet reads! I think these would all come in pretty handy for holiday baking.
Now since I’m an equal opportunity eater,
here’s another set of 10 books you might want more.
These are less sweet and much more savory.
Want a chance to win one of these groups of ten?
You choose which one.
- Just leave a comment on the blog and let me know which group of ten you’d like to win. Sweet or savory?
- The deadline to enter is
6:00 pm ET on Thursday, November 15, 2012SORRY, TIME’S UP! Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Thursday evening on this post.
Good luck guys!
P.S. Here’s a post on Chronicle’s blog if you’d like to try and win one of the other sets of ten books chosen by others.
And now through December 31, enjoy 30% off + free ground shipping on all holiday orders at ChronicleBooks.com! Just enter discount code GIVEBOOKS at checkout.
Give Books artwork created by the amazing Julia Rothman!
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We have a winner!
Yay Redheadwriter! I think I might have picked savory, too. Those covers all look amazing. Enjoy!
sweets!
sweet (almost) every time :)
Sweet!~ :D
Those books look great! I am a baker, but i couldn’t turn down that beautiful book full of pasta! I would love the savory book set. Thanks for the awesome give away.
Love your blog!
grace
I would be thrilled with either – what a tough choice! Since I have to pick, I’m gonna go with sweet!
I’d love the sweet ones, please. Thanks!
Mostly because of that amazing looking eggplant, savory. This will be a great start to the holiday season for some special person. Thanks for offering it!
Sweet for me please.
Savory please! Mmmm! <3
Sweet!!! They all look great, but I’m all for the Sweets!!!
Sweet all day!
My wife is a baker already so some Savory meals would be great!
Definitely the sweet books. They are making my mouth water just looking at them. Thanks.
I am a sweet junkie, so the sweet would be my vote! Thanks!
What a great collection! Although I love to bake, I’m a newlywed and the very last book in the Savory collection caught my eye!
Gotta go with the sweet! Thanks for the chance to win :)
Oh, that’s hard. I’ll have to say the sweet set because I could share them or give some to my sister-in-law who loves to make sweets as much as I do. Plus then I would have the new Cake Pop book. :)
Savory! Love this collection :)
Gosh — so many GREAT books~
I would have to say savory because— I’ve wanted Chicken & Egg for a long time now.
SWEET all the way!!! :-)
Definitely the savory!
I’m a sweets girl ! Thank you for this opportunity to win such a sweet gift !
Lyn
I would LOVE to have the sweet set! I’m trying to cut back on sweets myself, but with the holidays I have plenty of people to cook for!
I love baking! I would definitely pick the sweet set. Thanks so much for offering this giveaway!
I would most definitely have the sweet set :)
Can’t chooooooooooooose………..but if forced, I’d rather have savoury. But I wouldn’t turn down sweet!
Sweet would be neat! <3 ALL of these books.
sweet!
Sweet!
All of the books look so wonderful, but I think I would get the Savory collection of books! :)
Sweets for sure!!
Sweets my sweet!
I’m a recent reader, so I’m not yet sure about how your giveaways work, if they’re international or not… If they are, I’d love to get the sweet set! :)
Sweet definitely the sweet set!
Love the sweet stuff! It would be so much fun to try out some of these recipes for Christmas and share with family, friends and co-workers. Who doesn’t love the house smelling like cookies during the Holidays?!
Those are some lovely choices. Afer much vacillating I think savory would be nice.
definitely sweet!
Savory!
I’m a sucker for the sweet section for sure! They all look so wonderful!
Sweet pretty please, with sugar on top!
Sweet is just too tempting to pass up.
Sweet for me! Both are great sets though.
I would LOVE the sweet set!
Another sweet here! Those books are making me want to go bake!
Since I recently found out that I have to be gluten free (boo) I’d have to pick the sweet since it’s very hard to indulge in gluten free baked goods from the frozen section…. Thanks you!
Sweet!!
But i really want that tru blood cook book!!!!
Definitely the Sweet!
sweet please
Definitely sweet. The first book, Gooey, chewy… makes me swoon! Have mercy!
I always get the cookbooks at our white elephant gift exchanges. I always take one that I like so I can steal my own gift if there isn’t one available :)
The sweet for sure! What a great giveaway.
Sweet! Definitely sweet!! :)
tough choice, but going with savory!
Sign me up for the Savory please! My mouth is already watering.
Savory!! :)
Sweet! I should really say savory since I have a few sweet cookbooks already. Thanks!!
SWEET!!! Yum. Yes definately sweet.:)
I want to say sweet, but I think what I really need are more savory cook books!
The sweet set looks like fun to try!
Oh wow, every cookbook looks wonderful! If I could choose one set i would pick the sweet ones because I know so many people who would love them as gifts!!
I should go with Savory, but my heart says Sweet.
Sweet although savory looks very good too.
Sweet set please…sweets for the sweetie ; )
Sweets PLESAE! They all look wonderful :o)
I love sweets, but my savory side could use some inspiration. Savory, please!
This is so exciting!
Sweet, for sure!
Mmmmm….SWEET, please. :-)
I love them both, but if I had to choose, it would be SWEET.
It’s a toss up! Both look awesome!
Would love the savoury,could share recipes with my family! Thank you!
SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!
The short answer is savory.
I think I would rather have and cook sweets but need to move more toward savory. I need to relearn to cook in house!
I want sweet!
What a great giveaway. I’d love to have the “Sweet” collection!!
Savory please!!
I would like the sweet cookbooks. They seem like they would be great.
Around the holidays, all I want is sweets! So I’d definitely choose the “sweet” group of books. I especially love the one entitled “Cookie Party” – my favorite holiday memory was waiting for the huge box of Christmas cookies from my grandma to arrive!
Hmmm, they all sound good, but why not sweet and share with my sweeties!
Savory book set please! I love to bake, but would love to try some new recipes to spice up dinner. :)
Sweet!
sweet please!!!
Since I’m allergic to gluten, I’ll have to go with the Savory Set.
I would love to win the set of sweet books!
I’d love the Sweet set!
I love to cook but I love to bake as well! Hmmmmm….. I just can’t make a decision. I think I need both sets! My sweet tooth is probably bigger so if I had to choose my greedy sweet tooth would win!
Sweet please!
Ooh… my sweet tooth gets me every time!!
I have a sweet tooth but I do want savory for my cookbook self.
Sweet for sure!! I love to bake on my day off every week, but I recently had to give up gluten. It has been so hard bc i love giving it to my friends and coworkers but I cant try most of the things I make anymore. So I definitely want to check out that gf book!!!!!!
Love the SWEET Stuff. I would love to try out some of these recipes during Christmas for Family, friends and co-workers. Who doesn’t love their house smelling like cookis during the Holidays?!
OH that is so hard I would like them all. SO I think I will go with sweet.
Oh dear…what a tough choice. I think I’ll have to go with savory even though my heart aches to go with sweet!!!
Both sets look like they’re filled up many possiblities, but if I must choose-make mine savory.
I guess I would have to pick SWEET! so bad for me, but soooo good
Sweet would be my first choce, but I’d love savory, too. So if you call my name, know I’d be happy to win anything. Anything at all!
handheld pies?? sweet please!
I would love sweet!!!!
How could anyone possibly decide? I guess Savory though since 90 percent of my cookbooks are sweet oriented.
I would say sweet , but going gluteen free is sooooo stinking hard!!!’n
Sweet! Definitely Sweet.
Sweet, all the way! :) fantastic books selection.
SWEET!!!!
Hmm, my sweet tooth is telling me to go savory on this one!!!
Sweet for me!
Oh wow! That’s a really hard decision but I think I’ll have to go with savory :)
I would love to win the Sweet set.
I would like the sugar coma please (:
Sweet!!!
SWEET PLEASE AND THANKS
My stomach says sweet even though my pants not want to agree!
I really am having a hard time choosing! I think I lean a little towards savoury though. Crossing fingers!
Definitely the “sweet” books! Flour is on my Christmas list, so this would clear the way for another worthy kitchen essential.
Well I must admit I have quite a few of those “Sweet” books. So I guess I would have to choose from the savory collection…One can never have enough books!
Oh my gosh, I’d LOVE to have the Sweet set!! I didn’t get my whole email address entered on the previous try.
Sweet. No, savory. No, sweet. No, savory. No…Oh I’d be tickled pink and humbled to win either set! I love your contests; makes me feel like a kid all over again. :)
Sweet please!!!!
Well I must admit I have quite a few of those “Sweet” books. So I guess I would have to choose from the savory collection…
Savory – I especially would love to sink my teeth into the True Blood cookbook; it’s my fave show!
Oh my gosh, I’d LOVE to have the Sweet set!!
Sweet! Definitely sweet!!
What lovely cookbooks! Savory!!
mmmmmmm sweet.. 0:)
For me it would be savory- I am dying to especially try Chicken and Egg! Thanks for the chance!
I would love the sweet books! They are all great.
I would like to win the savory cookbooks. I want to learn how to cook more meals. :)
I would love to win the books from the sweet group. I have been trying to build my collection of baking books and these would be so perfect to add!
SWEEEEEEEEET!!!!! YUM =)
I would love the Sweets cookbooks, I would have a ball with those!
The sweet set is making me drool!
such beautiful and appetizing photography. I choose sweet every time!!!
Sweet! They would be SO sweet to win.
savory
Sweet! I love to bake!
I’d love the sweet – all the way! Hopefully the newly wed ones in that collection since my husband and I just celebrated our first anniversary.
I always give books, I love them!
Happy holidays.
SWEET SWEET SWEET!!!!
sweet
Sweet, definitely. Want to spread the sweet love around my family and friends.
sweet
All the books look wonderful, but I would love the sweets!
Woops! Looks like I left my comment on a photo rather than on the post itself! I’d love love loooove the savory books! I have so many dessert cookbooks now and so I need to catch up on new “real food” recipes to cook for my family so we don’t end up all chubby roly polies!
Sweets, please :)
Savory
Sweet!! of course
The sweet one for sure!! My goal is to gain 10 lbs by the end of the year!! Totally kidding, but these would be awesome!!
My husband would beg me to pick savory… but I got to go with sweet
Oh so hard to pick!! But I am going with savory!
I would love the sweet books!
Gotta go for savory. Too many sweet cookbooks already :)
Savory for me :).
Sweet. ..my husband is in the Navy and they always request me to bake sweets. New recipss would be great! Thank you!
The Savory Set for sure!! As much as I love me some sweets–those savory cookbooks look like they’d make some good, drool-worthy bedtime reading :)
Hello! I would love to win sweet! :)
I am leaning toward savory….
Love sweets so sweet books please.. thanks for the giveaway.
Savory! “Plenty” for me and so many others to gift.
Even though I love to drool over sweet recipes and pictures, I’d have to say the savory collection would be better for my bootie!
Sweeeeeet!!
I would love the sweet! How awesome of you!
Sweet for me!!!
Sweet! Cookbooks are my favorite gift for family and friends.
What great books – love the savoury ones!
I have so many sweet cookbooks already, I am going to have to say that I NEED the savory books.
As much as I love the savory, I will choose sweets every time!
Love the Sweet collection, it looks amazing!
I had to do Rock Scissors Paper with myself to choose!! Even though I LOVE Savoury, it’s christmas and I am broke so I need some inspiration to make my friends Christmas gifts, so I will have to go with Sweet!!!!!!!
sweet! definitely sweet!
Sweet!!!!!!! I would love to try all those recipes!
Sweet please!
Both sets look fantastic, but I’d have to go for sweet! Thanks!!
as much as I love sweets, I’d pick the savory books!!
EWWWWWWWW I think I would have to say sweet as I am just into my holiday baking, but either would be wonderful additions as I have taken to helping others learn to cook….thank you!
Sweet…I always love to add to my collection!!!
Sweet!!
Thanks for looking out for me and my vote! If I had to pick I would choose savory! There are two books on my wish list on there and I know I would love them all!!
Savory!! I’m drooling just looking at the covers
Sweet!
My hubs and I have a hard core sweet tooth, so I would most def say SWEEEEEEEEET!
They both look like good groups of books. But for me it would have to be the SWEET group of books.
Tough call! I think I’d have to go with savory, though.
Sweet, sweet, sweet!
Sweeeeeeet!!
What a fun grouping of books. I for sure have a sweet tooth, but I’m a SAVORY kind of gal. Happy Pre-Holidays! :)
I’m going to have to go with Savory. I can do sweet easily but the savory takes some work.
I love sweet foods, so The Sweet set for sure! =D
The vegetarian book, Plenty, really caught my attention. The roasted eggplant topped with the pomegranate seeds on the cover looks crazy delish. I am going to have to say Savory!
Oooh I have a bunch off the savory list already, so I’d choose the sweet group! Yum!
Team sweet all the way! How will I satisfy my sweet tooth without them?
Oh sweet heaven!
The sweet books for sure!
SwEet!!!! They all look like amazing books :)
Ooh I’d love the sweet set! Thanks for the giveaway!
Both our great, but since I’m on a diet, I’m going with Savory!
I would love Savory!
I’d chose the sweet ones!
Have I ever mentioned I’m addicted to cookbooks?!? I especially like the ones with beautiful, colorful pictures! I would love any of them but if I had to chose, I would have to say Gluten free baking or Cheesemonger’s Kitchen or Brittles Barks & Bonbons or Plenty or Cookie Party…but I do love your cookbooks I’m just not good at making cake pops. But I love eating them and painting them!!
sweets
DEFINITELY SWEET! Plus, one of my good friends just found out she has a gluten allergy, so our baking events have suffered… that would be perfect!
Sweet! I’d love to try out some new treats for the holidays!
Sweet Please!
Definitely sweet!!!