30 cookbooks were just named finalists in this year's James Beard Foundation Awards.
Now here's your chance to win one of them, courtesy of ProjectFoodie.com
ProjectFoodie website will be giving away cookbooks through May 2nd, when the James Beard winners will be announced.
To win a cookbook go to www.ProjectFoodie.com and leave a comment on why you feel a cookbook is award-worthy. The most clever comment will win that cookbook.

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GORDON RAMSAY AND THE PRODUCERS OF THE BIGGEST LOSER ARE NOW CASTING AMATEUR CHEFS FOR A NEW INSPIRATIONAL COOKING SHOW!
Can you cook well despite never having been formally trained? We are currently searching for budding chefs from all walks of life - amateur chefs, passionate foodies, the ultimate dinner party host/hostesses∑
Now one of the world‚s most acclaimed chefs, GORDON RAMSAY, is giving you the opportunity to become a MasterChef!
MasterChef is a show that celebrates great peop...

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The chocolate adventure begins.

America’s finest dark chocolate and Tuttiefoodie.com invite you to join them in the spirit of adventure.
Combine Scharfen Berger artisan chocolate with one or more of 16 ingredients from sumac to smoked sea salt.
Then create an original recipe, sweet or savory.
You can win one of 2 $10,000.00 grand prizes

Enter the contest by January 3, 2010

http://www.chocolateadventurecontest.com

 

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Beautiful! Don’t blink. That isn’t a typo. It’s the name of a new food company in San Francisco that wants to make it easier for you to eat healthful.
Beautifull! opened its flagship store/cafe in San Francisco’s Laurel Village Shopping Center this spring. More locations are planned, including one in Palo Alto early next year.
The stores make prepared foods that are free of hormones, steroids, additives, preservatives, refined sugars, refined grains, butter and cream. A team of chefs an...
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Yankee Pier Fund-Raiser and More…
Enjoy a seafood lunch or dinner at Yankee Pier in Lafayette on Sept. 24, and benefit a good cause at the same time.
Twenty percent of sales from that entire day will be donated to the Taylor Family Foundation.
The non-profit partnered with the East Bay Regional Park District in 1998 to build Camp Arroyo in Livermore. The camp serves Northern California children suffering from life-threatening and chronic illnesses, as well as kids with developmental disabiliti...

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Then, you might just get a boost to help that dream come true.
The Oregon Travel Commission is hosting a contest to give away seven “cuisinternships” (that’s culinary internships to those in the know). Yes, seven winners will be selected to spend one all-expense-paid week shadowing an expert in his or her preferred culinary craft. The internships up for grabs are:
• Artisan Food Producer: Become a culinary artisan in Southern Oregon with chocolatier Jeff Shepherd of Lillie Belle Farms a...

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