I have a surprise for you!
Today I am giving away one copy of my absolute favorite cookbook of all time.
I seriously live out of this cookbook. I use it practically every single day and my copy is stained, burned and dog chewed. I’m buying a brand new copy (unless you want my slobbery one and I’ll keep the new one? just kidding..sort of) for one of you because, well, I love you!
I seriously appreciate every one of you more than you know and your daily support of ELR means the world to me. I could be having the worst day ever, but then I come online and read your comments and it’s like my whole day turns around right then and there. Thank you. So much.
To enter this giveaway, just leave a comment on this post. I’ll pick a random winner tonight at 10pm PST.
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I absolutely love your blog! The photos are amazing and the way you write just keeps me coming back for more! I only read your tweets until I discovered your blog this morning. This site has now been added to my list of websites that I absolutely NEED to visit every day.
OMG!!! I have been wanting this book for so long you have no idea! P.s. those were some awesome mint brownies!
I don’t have this cookbook, but I have been wanting a copy of it!! Thanks for always posting such great recipes!!!
Your posts always bring me cheer!
Ah, I hope it’s me! I adore Ruth Reichl!
Well if you use it Jenna, it MUST be good!!
I’d love to win the cookbook. Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas! What a great present this would be!
I’ve thumbed through this cookbook so many times and keep talking myself out of buying it! Crossing my fingers that today is my lucky day. On another note, I must tell you that I made the Old Fashioned Gingerbread over the weekend and it’s a hit with everyone — I’ve even converted some non-gingerbread folks with it!
AAAHHH! Ever since your post of your favorite cookbooks, I’ve been drooling over this book at the bookstore.
p.s. I can’t wait to try your gingerbread cookie recipe this week with my mom! Hooray!
I just barrowed this from the library to read over winter break! I must have this in my collection!
I have the new one and I would LOVE the original!
What a great gift! I know its a staple!
Merry Christmas. glad you get to go home! I’ll be stopping through Savannah on my way back to NC from FL.
I love cookbooks and I would love to own this one.
On a side note, I made your “Oh Baby Bars” last night and OMG…..heaven is a place with copious amounts of chocolate and peanut butter.
I’d love this cookbook. Your blog is outstanding and one of my favorites!
So fun! I love new cookbooks!
You’re such an inspiration to me, my blog & my cooking! Happy Holidays!
Your blog inspires me and makes me love good food even more than i already do. I would love to own a cookbook that inspires you! Cheers and Happy Holidays!
I don’t this cookbook, but would love to try the recipes from it!
I started reading your blog right when I moved out on my own, and it has inspired me to try new recipes instead of living off of college staples such as spaghetti and grilled cheese
That’s so sweet and generous of you! I’d love to add some new recipes to my menu!
Your blog inspires me every day. I soooo look forward to reading it. I would love to own something that inspires you! Cheers and Happy Holidays.
i think i would love to live out of this cookbook too!
You don’t need to enter me in the giveaway. I just wanted to comment and say that I agree that this is the absolute BEST cookbook! I hope whoever wins loves it just as much as I do.
Everything I’ve made has been delicious, and I love the tutorials! Thanks to this book, I can finally make a perfect hard-boiled egg. Love.
i love cookbooks like that…i only have one that i use consistently and would LOVE to have another one that’s tried and true!
If you’re recommending it, I would love this cookbook!
ME ME ME!! I don’t own any cookbooks and take all of my recipes from online. I’d love to have a book I can get splatters and stains on!
I love your blog so much and you have inspired me to try cooking so many new things. Thank you!
If I don’t win this book- I’m going to have to just buy a copy for myself. I’ve been wanting it for a while.
Happy Holidays, Jenna. I love your blog, recipes and inspiration to be a better baker!
I would love love love this cookbook!!
And thank you for always posting such delicious recipes, interesting restaurant reviews, beautiful pictures, etc. I love reading your blog every day!
Merry Gourmet Christmas, Jenna!!
Very cool. I am in need of an “everything” cookbook full of basic how-to recipes. This sounds awesome.
Thank YOU Jenna! For being so awesome, my daily dose of entertainment and cooking inspiration. Any cookbook you love, I know I’ll love too
Happy Holidays!
Nevermind, I’m Canadian
Jenna, I adore your blog and aspire to live your fantastic CA life someday! I’m in freezing cold Philly for now, but I’m taking my first trip to wine country in May after running Bay to Breakers, and I can’t wait to explore Healdsburg and visit all of your recommended wineries and restaurants. Thank you for your humor, grace, and lovely blog! Happy holidays.
I am in need of an “everything” cookbook full of basic how-to recipes. This sounds awesome.
I love you blog and all your cooking adventures. The Gourmet Cookbook has been on my list for a long time. I love Ruth and all her books!
I’d love to add to my cookbook collection!
Do Canadians qualify? If so, I would love to win this!
I’m sorry!! This one is only open to US readers
I’d love this! Happy Holidays.
ELR was the first blog I enjoyed enough to start following daily. Thanks for inspiring me to have fun in the kitchen
I would adore this cookbook. Merry Christmas!
What a great giveaway! Thanks!
At 24 I am finally starting to break out of my cooking shell and make more than spaghetti (noodles and prego… haha) and pizza… Cookbooks are like my arm floaties in the kitchen. =)
I love all cookbooks and don’t have a copy of this one. Pick me, pick me!!
Hang on, I need to wipe up the drool from seeing those cookies before I can type. They looked aaaammmaazzzinggg!! I love surprises!!!
Can’t wait to read your posts when you go home!! No place like home! 
You. Are. Awesome.
thank you so much for writing, and putting so much passion into this blog. you have made the blogging world, and my world, much brighter for doing what you do.
happy holidays!
So exciting. I don’t have this book, and I would love to try it.
Plus, I love all your recipies. I have tried several of yours recently, the white chicken chilli is a huge hit at my house, so thanks for that! You never lead me in the wrong direction.
We all adore you Jenna! Thankyou so much!
No, thank YOU Jenna for the daily entertainment (and keyboard drooling).
Ohoh, nevermind! I’m Canadian, count me out then.
I have been thinking about buying this cookbook! I got their Cookie cookbook with an awesome Borders coupon, but sadly this has been out of my price range this holiday season! I would love love love to win it
Happy Holidays!
I love reading your blog Jenna. I love that you show real (delicious) food, you make cooking and baking seem easy(ish).
I love cook books! Nothing better then getting cozy with a new cook book and stack of post it notes to plan out some new kitchen adventures!
That cookbook sounds awesome! I would love to add it to my small collection!
what a perfect holiday giveaway! such a fantastic book!
Merry Christmas Jenna! Your blog is so inspiring and I would love to win a copy of your favourite cookbook…what a great present!
Great giveaway! Merry Christmas!
I love your blog and would love to win this cookbook! Happy Holidays
I’ve been meaning to comment for some time to tell you how much I adore the new format of your blog. I think you’re a wonderful writer and photographer, and your recipes always look so delicious. Please keep doing what you’re doing, because your blog is one of my favorites!
what a perfect holiday giveaway & such a fantastic book!
whoops! didn’t mean to comment twice. my computer was being silly!
I look forward to your blog posts every single day. I love the way you write, photograph food and make me so hungry with your posts!
Happy holidays!
merry christmas jenna!
If everything you cook/bake is any indication of the amazing-ness inside of this cookbook – sign me up!!
At 24 I am finally breaking out of my cooking shell. I am venturing out past spaghetti (noodles and prego. haha) and pizza. Cookbooks are like my arm floaties in the kitchen.
LOVE Gourmet. LOVE Ruth Reichl. LOVE your blog and what you stand for.
oooh i’d love this cookbook! you have made me want it but i haven’t bought it yet.
So nice of you! Merry Christmas!
Oh I would LOVE that cookbook!!! xoxox
i love ELR and i love this cookbook. xo
awesome giveaway! I hope I win
I would love to be considered for this cookbook!
A fantastic cookbook! I’d love to add it to my collection!
Merry, merry, Jenna! Thanks for entertaining us all year long.
I love Ruth Reichl’s writing but I actually don’t have any of the Gourmet cookbooks yet (I know, bad food blogger!) I would love to win this from one of my very favorite blogs of all time! Thanks for the awesome blog Jenna and the wonderful give-away.
I pick up this book and look at it every time I’m in a bookstore. I can’t believe I don’t own it already!
Merry Christmas, Jenna!
I look forward to your posts every. single. day. Just thought you should know. Thanks for being awesome and happy holidays!!!
This cookbook is definitely on my wish list!
I have been wanting that cookbook for the longest time!
I read your blog every day and enjoy laughing and cooking do it! Your recipes are amazing. I admire your struggles as a person and the eloquent way you face them. You are definitely an inspiration for women everywhere to follow their dreams!
I absolutely LOVE your blog…its so different and unique, and I always know I can expect some amazing recipes. Happy Holidays!
Excited about this! Have a good visit home!
Ooh I’d love this!
What a great giveaway! I would love a copy for my collection. Happy holidays!
What a great giveaway =) Using this cookbook would be a GREAT new year’s resolution for me!
Happy holidays to you and yours!
I love ELR and have been wanting to add this book to my collection, mostly based on your recommendations
how exciting… mouth watering now. you are so generous, jenna!
Your Blog is Amazing!!!!! I am always trying your recipes, and always reading your blogs , my daughter also loves your blogs, You are an inspiration to me and my daughter. Thank you!!!! <3
I am a college student getting ready to graduate, so I’m building up my cookbook collection! The “Bible” would be a wonderful addition!
ELR inspires me daily. Merry Christmas Jenna!
I recently found your blog online about two months ago and am so fortunate that I did. In fact, your blog has inspired me to begin to create my own blog, which I am currently working on.
Thank you for reminding me to not only celebrate food, exercise and health… but to celebrate me as well.
Oh oh oh Pick me!
I’d love a new cookbook! Happy Holidays!
Oh Em Gee…WANT! I just recommended your gingerbread recipe for the upteenth time today, so you KNOW I’ll love it with all my heart!
Um, I need to cook from a cookbook. I’ve noticed my meals have been rather ramshackled and last minute lately.
Such a great blog, and such a great giveaway!
Merry Christmas!
Oh oh oh Pick me!
I would love to win this cookbook!
I keep checking this book out of the library because i love it so much. i bet the other patrons would appreciate if i finally get my own copy so that they get a chance to check it out too!
I would love this cookbook
. You rock!
I love new cookbooks!
Oh Em Gee…WANT! I just recommended your gingerbread recipe for the umpteenth time today, so you KNOW I’ll love it with all my heart!
I love ELR and have been wanting to add this book to my collection, mostly based on your recommendations
Happy Holidays!
I hope I win!!
I never win anything, so maybe today there will be a Christmas contest miracle for me!
Love your blog, Jenna! You rule.
I would love to have this cookbook in my collection!!!
Your blog brightens my day! Merry Christmas!
i have always wanted this one! thanks!
I absolutely love your blog, I never knew someone liked baking as much as I do =)
I would LOVE this cookbook! Merry Christmas, Jenna!
i hope i win
Love reading your blog, esecially all the recipes! Recently made the mac n’ cheese and cranberry bread for Thanksgiving; both were a HUGE hit!
I’ve been wanting this cookbook ever since I began reading your blog! Exciting!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for inspiring daily!
I would love to have this book, I need some new cooking inspiration !
I have had my eye on this cookbook for a while, and seeing all the delicious recipes you create using it, makes me want it even more! Thank you for the opportunity to win such an awesome giveaway. Merry Christmas!
Wow, great giveaway Jenna! Merry Christmas
I’d love a copy of this book.
I love cookbooks, and this would be a great addition to my collection! Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!
I adore your blog! I love the writing, recipes, photos, heck I just love it.
I kinda like “well-loved” cookbooks better than new ones.
I love your blog, Jenna!! Merry Christmas!
I love your blog and would be so excited to win this cookbook.
How very sweet of you. I love the new direction of your blog! I have made so many things.
I LOVE buying cookbooks but am always nervous I’ll end up with a dud. I either am not that excited about enough of the recipes or when I make them, the dishes don’t turn out that great. Knowing you use this one regularly, I may have to buy it even if I don’t win! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I love your blog Jenna! Thanks for this amazing opportunity! And I actually would like your old one…you’re a celebrity!
Oooh, I would love any cookbook that you use everyday!!!!
All of your latest confections are making me want to bake more! I have decided I am done with the treats for the season. After four different kinds of cookies, I am done!
aww your blog inspires me! I just made your Cinnamon Walnut bread to send home with my boyfriend to his family for Christmas. It smells soooo good!
I started reading your blog a few months ago and your recipes make me excited to go home and cook. I’ve made the pumpkin roll about 3 times and it’s my favorite! happy holidays!
I have read your blog from the beginning and love the evolution. I appreciate all the hard work you do and adore your recipes!
this is awesome!! i read your blog daily and love your sense of humor. and i also love your turkey meatballs.
I would looooove to win this cookbook! If I don’t, it will have to go on my Christmas list.
I adore your blog. I love the writing, recipes, photos, heck I just love it!
I love cookbooks and would love to have Gourmet!
I would love a new cookbook. Thanks much!
Pam Lambert
oh! I’d love a gourmet cookbook!
I am determined to, eventually, win some sort of blog giveaway. This would be the perfect one!
Can I have the stained version
?
I would love to have this cookbook in my (still verrry small) collection! If you bake and cook out of it, I know it’s gotta be good!! Pick me, pick me! hehe
I would love this cookbook! My husband would love it even more as it might inspire me to enter the kitchen more than once a year when I embark on my annual Christmas bake-a-palooza.
He is a doll and does 90% of the cooking in our house for various reasons but mostly because that is how he “woo’ed” me when we were dating and now he’s stuck!
Oops, Canadian so not eligible
I need this cookbook for my collection!
I love you and your obsession with chocolate!!!
I’m a new reader, but I’m loving what I’m seeing so far. Those oreos look divine.
love me a new cookbook and your blog!
i’ve wanted this book for so long! thanks for the giveaway.
I would love to have my copy to spill on and dog ear!! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
I want this cookbook!!!
Jenna you rock! I’d LOVE to add this cookbook to my collection, especially since you rave about it!
Thanks for doing this!
Donna
What a fun giveaway. I’m a huge fan of your blog!
If this is one of your favorites, I know it must be good! I want to make everything on your blog!
Your blog is a daily bite of happiness. I would love to win this!
You’re so sweet! New ELR posts always brighten my day
Jenna you rock! I’d LOVE to add this cookbook to my collection, especially since you rave about it!
Thanks for doing this!
Donna
What an awesome giveaway! I appreciate all of the hard work you do and your wonderful writing style
Amazing giveaway! Thanks Jenna!
I think that a favorite cookbook is the perfect gift for anyone. For a food lover, favorite recipes are so very personal…to share that with someone is an awesome gift!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I would love that cookbook!
You’ve talked about this cookbook so much that I am thoroughly intrigued. I keep meaning to check it out from the library but haven’t gotten to it yet. Anyway, I love your blog and hope you have a great Christmas!
I would love this book! I have wanted this cookbook since I moved out of my mom’s and she would not give me hers!
Jenna, I love the blog. I loved it before but I love it even more now as your posts are so obviously much happier than they were before and I always look forward to whatever amazing recipe you have to post!
Keep it up and I can’t wait to see what you do with the place in 2011! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you!
I’ve recently stumbled upon your blog and have fallen in love with your writing and recipes. I have two young boys and I’ve come to realize the importance of healthy, homemade, whole foods. I’ve been trying to expand our dinner menus to incorporate more homemade, less process stuff and have been attempting to expand my cookbook collection. I was SO EXCITED to see this book as your give away! I have yet to find a book that has become my cooking go-to as this one is for you.
By the way, I’ve been trying out quite a few of your recent goodies with my boys and they are having so much fun creating new, exciting treats. Especially the ones with the sprinkles! Thanks for helping my family and I bond over baking and good food!
Have you read “Garlic and Sapphires”? It’s Ruth Reichl’s book about her time as a food critic… I hope I win the cookbook!
Oh, pick me! I would SO love that cookbook. I was actually planning on going to find it at our local bookstore once the craziness of Christmas shopping is over:)
You=Amazingness <3
How sweet!! I love you too!!! And your great posts. Thanks for the inspiration to cook.
I was just talking to my boyfriend about needing this cookbook.
Thank you for making my mornings a little brighter! I always look forward to your recipes.
I love to read your posts everyday! They inspire me to cook and bake new things. Your cardamom rolls are on my list of things to try. I have a lot of cookbooks, but I don’t have Gourmet. I have been eyeing it after all the raving you do about it! Merry Christmas!
I would love this cookbook!!
i’d love the cookbook
i’m planning on purchasing it, so it’d save me some money!
PICK MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jenna, I love the blog! I loved it before but I love it even more now because your blogs are filled with a lot more happiness! I always look forward to see which tasty recipe you post and I can’t wait to see what you do with the place in 2011!
Merry Christmas!
I would love this cookbook! I very much enjoy your blog and the recipes you share!
If you love it, it must be great! Just made your cake balls last night…um ridiculous.
I loooove you and your desserts. And chili. And other stuff.
I would love a cookbook, too!
You are awesome Jenna! Love the blog, love Ruth! YAY!
i love cookbooks! is it weird that i curl up on the couch with a cookbook like you would with a book?
I love the recipes you share on your blog. It inspires me to try my own baking!
I’d LOVE another cookbook to add to my collection!
Love the blog Jenna!
I would love any cookbook that you use daily. I can’t even imagine the goodness inside!
I’ve always wanted this book! Nice give-away
Happy birthday ELR!
Hi Jenna! I’ve been reading your blog since the beginning. I’ve never posted before but I thought, why not? So thanks for always posting and keep it up! I love it!
I would looooove this book!
Awesome!!!! My current bible is Julia Child’s “The art of French Cooking” (which I Loooove) but it would be nice to give it some competition!!!
I love reading your blog and I love trying out your recipes! Hope your holidays are wonderful!!
I love the recipes you share on your blog. It inspires me to try my own baking! The pictures make my mouth water too.
I love reading your blog and would really love this book!
Awesome!!! My current bible is Julia Child’s “Art of French Cooking” but I would love to give it some competition!!!
I love your blog, and would love a Gourmet cookbook!
Happy holidays!
I lost this cookbook in a breakup! My parents had purchased it for my now ex-boyfriend. I miss that cookbook—the boy…eh not so much!
That cookbook would go perfetly with my new kitchen aid mixer!!!!!
Excited for this! Have a wonderful holiday and enjoy being back in Florida
Love a good cookbook giveaway!
Random thought: I’m hungry for lunch, should I eat at one or two o’clock.
nice!
i have yet to make those french macaroons but i can’t wait to try it!
I recently heard about your blog from my roommate. I love it. You are adorable. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for thinking of us, Jenna. Happy Holidays!
Hi Jenna! What a wonderful surprise! Hope you have a Merry Christmas back in Florida with your family. I enjoy reading your blog everyday.
Is this contest open to Canadians?
Cookbooks rule. They are the best Christmas gift! You rule too. Love your blog Jenna
Happy holidays to you!
I’ve had this cookbook on my list to buy ever since I read your post of your top ten cookbooks. I’ve gotten 2 of them so far and only 8 more to go. Love your blog. You rock!
Your blog is such a pleasure to read – so REAL. Those chocolate covered Oreos look amazing!
Utter appreciation right back at ya! Seriously though, before I started reading your blog, I never even had the slightest want to bake a cookie, not even the slice and bake kind. I know, it was sad.
But, just like you’ve described how you love the feeling of kneading dough, I’ve started to feel the same way towards my new found love of baking. I’ve danced, cried, laughed and smiled during my little baking adventures, I definitely have you to partially thank for that. Oh and now when I go to bookstores, I only look at cookbooks, it’s a sickness I think. But, I like it.
Oh how I love this cookbook! I have yet to buy it but have been meaning to. LOVE your blog- I check it everyday!
How sweet, Jenna! I LOVE LOVE your blog, its the one I never miss checking, no matter what’s going on. You do a great job.
Awesome giveaway. Can’t wait to see what’s cooking for 2011
Merry Xmas to you and your family. I’d love to be entered!
And to eat some of those homemade oreos from earlier that you made
Thank you for making my Christmas more enjoyable and exciting this year. I have made so many of your recipes, I had my family over for dinner last night, and my parents were shocked at how well i had baked! Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I love your blog and all of your recipes! I would love to add this cookbook to my collection!
Thank you for thinking of us, Jenna! Happy Holidays!
how fun and generous! count me in for the running for the cookbook!
Santa says pick me!
I read your blog and, though I’m in college, I always bookmark your recipes to make over break! It’s a great blog and always so much fun to read
Thanks for the giveaway!! happy holidays!
nice!
can’t wait to try making those french macaroons!
Wow, what a lovely Christmas treat! I have to check out this cookbook knowing how much you adore it…
Jenna,
I really enjoy reading your blog and admire your positive attitude on food and life. Your recipes are great too – would love this cookbook!
Happy Holidays,
Liza
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog for the past 1.5 years. Thank you for all you do!
YAY! I have recently started my cookbook collection…this one would be a great addition to my collection…swear I’ll use it!!!
I’m glad that I’m not the only one whose cookbooks are a mess! It gives them character
Oh, a new cookbook! I love cookbooks
. Happy holidays Jenna!
I love your blog! Happy Holidays!
Oh how I love this cookbook. I have yet to buy it for myself but have been meaning to forever. I love your blog- I check it everyday!
Merry Christmas Jenna and thanks for being such a good friend and absolute “fab” baker ….. love all your receipes and your blog !
Thank you for all the inspiration you provide! Your blog is always inviting. Have a great Christmas!
I can be having a bad day and come online to read your blog and it’s like my whole day turns around, right then and there….
I have recently discovered your site and I am having a ton of fun reading what you write and drooling over what you cook. Thanks for sharing all of it with us! Right now I use How To Cook Everything as my go-to cookbook, but I think this cookbook would be a perfect step up from that. Happy Holidays!
I look forward to reading daily! Thank you for your cute antics and awesome looking recipes. Happy Holidays!
thank you for your blog, and have a FABulous christmas @ home!!!!
I just moved into my first apartment and still haven’t bought a cookbook! This would be the perfect one to start my collection.
love your blog and i would love to have this cookbook! thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
How generous! Thanks for a great giveaway. Merry Christmas!
I haven’t read that cookbook yet, but I’m slowly getting into the whole cooking idea, I’ve always been a baker though.
Yes! I have been looking for some new cookbooks because I feel like I am all burnt out on the ones I own. I hope I win!
Your blog has inspired me to cook. I didn’t really like to before and ever since I’ve been reading your blog I get excited about trying to cook/bake things. My fiancé loves that I now try to cook/bake! Thank you so much! He thanks you too!
I love the way the blog has evolved… your posts seem much ‘happier’ now… if that makes sense
You are awesome!! Thanks for being so generous and for inspiring me to cook and bake delicious things. I LOVE reading your blog. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Oooooh I’d love that cookbook! Love your post on your top desserts of the year. You had me craving Smores all day yesterday.
Oh fun!!! Would love to have that.
ps..you make me hungry!
Hi Jenna,
Love the blog and can’t wait to make those smores brownies!
Tara
Thanks! My mom loves this cookbook, so it would be great to have one of my own. Merry Christmas.
I will happily take the one with the stains and the dog slobber.
That means it has been loved.
Happy Holidays!!! This would go so well with my cookbook collection!!
I collect cookbooks, so this would be an awesome win. I love your blog and look forward to reading every day. Merry Christmas
what a great present!
This would be great winter reading!!! I love reading through cookbooks and flagging all the recipes. I would be excited to get this one since you have such good things to say about it!
Merry Christmas!!
I’ve always wanted that book!!
I gaze at that book in the store so often! Great giveaway, and best wishes to you!
This cookbook sounds amazing!
I took a page out of your book and covered my pumpkin walnut scone in melted chocolate last night. Sheer amazingness.
Love your blog and would love this cookbook too!
I would LOVE to win this cookbook! I’m always too cheap to buy them!
This would be the perfect addition to my cookbook collection. I love new cookbooks!!
This is such a great Christmas present! Thanks for all your great posts and generosity by sharing your life with us readers! Merry Christmas!
I would love to win this, especially if it means that I’ll have that Italian Buttercream recipe on hand at all times! I love your blog. I don’t comment often, but I check back everyday. Thank you for all you do!
I’d love to have that cookbook! My meals have gotten a little boring lately..
I love your blog.. thanks for sharing the awesome recipes
I would love this cookbook! I love your blog! It is so real life!
oh, no… thank YOU! i just love reading your blog… as someone else wrote, it just keeps me wanting to come back and read more
thanks for the book giveaway!
Great blog, keep up the good work!
Looks like a fantastic cookbook! Thank you so much for sharing such delicious, wonderful recipes with us every day
That cookbook looks amazing!
Best cookbook! Would love to win.
Cookbooks = love. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas at home!
I love cookbooks!
I would love to try out recipes from your favorite recipe book. So far I have tried your pizza, pasta and cookies on your website. All fantastic ones, I might add. I am always looking for yummy food and healthy alternatives. Thank you for blogging!
What a sweet holiday giveaway! I don’t own a copy of Gourmet, so I’d LOVE to win!
I would LOVE to win that cookbook! I’ve only recently been converted to actually following recipes and its pretty awesome what I can make.
How awesome! Pick me please
Have a Merry Christmas!.
I’m a recent (as in 4 days ago) college graduate, and I would LOVE a cookbook to start my own home with!!!! pick me, pick me!
I’ve been eying this cookbook for about a year. I love your blog, and would love to win this cookbook! Even if I don’t win, I think I’ll have to buy a copy soon!
You know this might become my “go to” cookbook if I won the copy. Right now I always “go to” Joy of Cooking, but the way you have talked about this one, it might even be better! Thanks for the chance to win!
Merry Christmas, Jenna! I would love the Gourmet cookbook!
What a generous thing to do. Thanks!
I look forward to reading your blog every day and I love Ruth Reichl. I just ordered her memoir, Tender at the Bone, to read over the holidays. Loved Garlic and Sapphires too.
Looks like a great cookbook! Happy holidays
Love your blog! Please! Pick me!
I would love to get my paws on a copy of The Gourmet Cookbook… If your heart desires a new one, I will gladly take your well worn and well loved copy. It speaks volumes of the journey you have taken with it.
ELR is high on my daily required reading, I usually jump to its location in my reader within minutes of logging online!
Thank you
I collect cookbooks, I have been wanting to add this one to my collection.
Merry Christmas!
I’m hoping to get more cookbooks for Christmas and this one tops my list. Thank YOU for being an amazing blogger and keeping us all entertained and informed.
I would love to try the cookbook. My boyfriend owns an Italian Restaurant and I have to try and keep up with him in the Kitchen which is difficult but the cookbook should help
Love your blog!
I love your blog, it gets me feeling creative about cooking/baking and it’s wonderful to see how much you love life in general. Thanks for the daily mood booster!
I’ma need a new book shelf to put all these cookbooks, esp if i get this one
I hope to do some cook book challenges in 2011 and would love to have this cookbook!
Merry Christmas Jenna
Your blog makes me happy. And inspires me to bake in the kitchen. Thank you for all that YOU do, Jenna!
I have been wanting this book for awhile now! This is a great giveaway. I hope you are doing great, and your shoulder is healing!
I loved your oreo post earlier. Vegetables are great, but so are chocolate sandwich cookies! Can’t wait to make them ASAP.
A dreamy and wonderful cookbook!
I would be so thrilled to add this book to my collection! Thanks Jenna!
I had this book checked out from the library for 12 weeks (3 consecutive renewals), the max I could have it! If I don’t get my own copy, I’ll go check it out again.
What an awesome giveaway! Thanks!
Jenna: I started reading ELR after I found you through the “A Really Goode Job” contestants — and I’ve been hooked ever since! I come back almost everyday and love pretending I live in wine country when I read your entries. Keep up the good work in 2011. I cannot wait until your book comes out
I love your re-vamped blog Jenna, as I’ve gushed at you many times before. I’m so proud of you for following your dreams and moving to a totally different coast line to pursue your foodie-life. You inspire me. Everyday.
I’m working on transitioning from “cook” to “chef” and would love a copy of Gourmet to help with this cooking makeover.
Merry Christmas.
I have been wanting this cookbook forever! I stop by my second hand bookstore down the street at least once every 2 weeks to see if there is a copy….
I made the mint brownies for a party on Saturday night and people could not get enough of them!!! I almost wanted to keep the recipe a secret so that no one would know how incredibly easy it was just to add the peppermint patties!
Thanks for always coming up with such great recipes and stories
Your blog was the first I started reading, way back when. I love how it has evolved over time. Your recipes are amazing, I seriously make your blondies once per week.
Oh how fun! I absolutely adore your site…in fact, most of the stuff I’ve baked in the past couple of months have come from you! Blogs have become like my new cookbooks, but I’ve been looking for a new actual cookbook for a while. This one sounds wonderful!
I love your blog and enjoyed meeting you in Austin!! I would love a copy of this cookbook! Happy Holidays!!
As a forlorned Gourmet devotee, this would really, really make my holiday brighter.
I would love to win this! Every time you post about this book I’m like “Oh, right! I need to remember to put this on my list of cookbooks I want!” And then I don’t. Every time. Ah well…
Ah I have been meaning to buy this! I hear it’s completely epic and I am JUST getting into cooking….
Sara
I’ve just started reading blogs this years and have used several of the recipes you’ve posted. Not only are the great but I enjoy reading your blog as well.
I’m so excited for a chance to win this book! I should have put it on my Christmas list.
Thank YOU, Jenna! ELR always puts me in a better mood
This has been on my “Santa, please!” list, it would make a lovely present (for me)! Happy Holidays!
I love your blog, I’ve been reading you for years, but I particularly love the transformation the blog has gone through in the past few months. Thanks for the genorosity, I hope I win!
I’m just starting my cookbook collection, I used to search for recipes on the internet but it’s overwhelming and I’m also kinda lazy
Love your site! I got lots of my holiday baking from you – thanks!!!
oooh I love cookbooks! Thanks for hosting a giveaway for one. =D I really enjoy reading your blog.
I absolutely love your blog!! It was especially nice to read that there was someone else out there that went to culinary school but didn’t want to be in a restaurant!!!
and I have been dying to get this cookbook~ I am so sad Gourmet is gone…but they can live on through me!!! 
Merry Christmas from a fellow Southern Girl!
I took a trip to Napa and Sonoma recently and thought of you
This would make a perfect addition to my cookbook collection, just in time for holiday baking and cooking!
Thank YOU Jenna, for your constant cooking inspirations!
I want to see more of wine country!
maybe a best of 2010 wine list? that would be fab.
Wow, what a wonderful holiday giveaway!! I love collecting cookbooks. My current favorite is a small-town fund-raising project with recipes compiled by the community. There are some gems amongst
Thanks for having this giveaway!
We are in the midst of a move (literally), and I just packed away 4 boxes of cookbooks! I cannot live without them…and then I kept a box to cart around during the next ‘floating’ weeks because a day doesn’t go by where some inspiration is sparked by the genius world of culinary goodness! Gourmet would just be the whipped cardamom cream atop my eggnog latte!
Your blog introduced me to the world of cooking, baking and enjoyment. Thanks
Merry Christmas, Jenna! Your blog has become one of my “must reads.” I’m moving to San Francisco in a few weeks and reading about your time in Northern California has made me even more excited!
I’ve been trying to cook more so this would be great.
And love the blog – very entertaining and great food. I adore your writing and your personality is brilliant.
a girl can NEVER have too many cookbooks. I would love this one!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
I have never used that book, but I would love to cook from your favorite book
I love your pictures of OCA–I get to go there every summer, or I guess now I get to go to LCB Orlando, but I love that place!!
LOVE what you do! Making Oh Baby for my neighbors today. THANK YOU!!!
almost broke down and bought this last week but didn’t do it.
p.s. love the new direction your blog has taken!
I can always use a good cookbook and everything you make looks delicious so I’m sure it’s a good one. Love your blog by the way.
Love your blog!! Hope you have a very Merry CHRISTmas!!!
Watching you transform in the past year from heath nut into someone who’s so comfortable in her own skin has given me a lot of hope for my own future. I’m 20, andI hope I can make the transition into the world as gracefully as you have. I’d love to have a copy of this cookbook!
Seriously, everything I have is dog-chewed anyway.
Your blog is a daily inspiration to us all to get out and LIVE. LIFE.
Hi Jenna! I read your blog every day! Love it! And I would love this cookbook! : )
I love your blog! It is very witty and fun to read.
I’m moving over Christmas and I’m pretty sure that cookbook would really like to live in my new kitchen.
I would absolutely looooove this!!
Ah what an amazing giveaway!! I’d love to get my hands on this cookbook it always tempts me!
I need a new cookbook! Couldnt find this one in my local bookstore! I’d love to have it!
To contribute to the love-fest… thank YOU for your blog. If I am having a crappy day, I love reading about your adventures and your humor never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Would love this cookbook – my current “collection” is quite pathetic
Love you and your blog!! Keep up the awesome work.
thanks for all the recipes!!
love to read the blogs.
oh, i get this one out of the library all the time. no idea why i haven’t made the purchase yet! i made your mint smore brownies for my dad a few days ago – they were SO AWESOME!
This cookbook will inspire me to make delicious goodies like you! YAY!
What a great idea! I keep reading about this cookbook on your blog…sounds like a great one to keep in your kitchen!
Wow, what a great giveaway! I hope I win!
I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog for three years now and seeing it develop and grow!
Love your blog! Always refreshing your page to see if there’s a new post
I feel like I should get YOU something for writing such wonderful posts! Not to mention giving us so many delicious recipes…
I’ve made so many of your recipes and they have all been hits with my husband!
Thanks!! Hope to win the cookbook! 
I have always wanted this cookbook!
Just found your blog a couple of days ago!
Jenna! Love your blog.. and this cookbook would be awesome!
Merry Christmas to ELR! Love the blog Jenna
I’d love this. Keep doing what you’re doing, I love watching your resumes… I need to start baking all the ones I have printed out.
I love hearing about your favorite cookbooks. I’d love to enter, and also just wanted to comment and say I got the ingredients for gluten-free ice box cakes and I can’t wait to celebrate the end of the semester with a couple this week!
errr recipes is what I mean!
I would love the cookbook – thanks for a great giveaway.
Oh my word, that cookbook would be fantastic. They have a recipe for an awesome banana cake and I’ve been eyeing the cookbook JUST FOR THAT RECIPE.
Thanks!
What a great giveaway Jenna!
Great giveaway! I actually asked for the green Gourmet cookbook for Christmas, but then accidentally saw my Christmas list sitting on my Mom’s desk, and the cookbook was not crossed off…guess that means I’m not getting it! Would love to win this one though
Oooh I would love a copy of the cookbook. Thanks for all that you do, love your blog!
First of all, I LOVE those candles??!! Very cute! And the Cookbook looks awesome!! Would LOVE to win it!! Good luck everyone!!
) Happy Tuesday!
Oh my. I would love to have this as a Christmas present. Your blog is my all-time fave and I admire you in so many ways!
Thank YOU for being an amazing writer and chef.
Hope you have a nice Christmas at home!
My mom has a copy of this cookbook, but I need my own copy!
I LOVE cookbooks and your site has inspired me to really step out of my cooking comfort zone. I would really love to win this and keep expanding my cooking horizons!
YUMMY!!! Perfect start to 2011!!
Ooo. I would love a new cookbook.
Cookbooks are the number thing on my Christmas list this year!! Hope this brings me great random number generator luck
Keep on keepin’ on girl
Please pick me! This would be a great addition to my cookbook collection and I am in serious need of new inspiration!!
I love your blog – it always cheers me up! This book would be such a nice Christmas surprise!
You cook all this rich, yummy food and yet you stay so svelte and beautiful! What’s your secret??
I NEED this cookbook! Because I need help in the kitchen…but I only want to win if it will give me the ability to cook like you! ha! Have a Very Merry Christmas!
I just have to say you are AWESOME!! I love reading your blog! All of your recipes look delicious! Happy Holidays!
Yay, an ELR giveaway! I kind of miss these, actually. It was how I learned about all of the cool food blogger stuff…
Weee! What a great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity
You make us smile everyday too!!! Merry Christmas
I love reading your blogs and all your recipes are amazing.
I love your blog, and your recipes are yummy!
Thanks for writing such a good blog! I enjoy your down-to-earth cooking and writing style. If you’re ever in Madison, Wisconsin, and you want a fellow epicure to show you around, send me an email.
I would love to win that cookbook. It’s one of the few I dont have. hehehe. I love cookbooks.
Jenna, I love your out look on life. You really are the healthiest food blogger. I used to obsess over being healthy enough but around the same time you made the change on your blog I made the change in my life to start loving food and myself. It so much healthier to have an amazing cookie every once in a while than onlly eating carrots. I have stopped reading all the other blogs I read. I look forward to your posts and video. Thank you for sharing your gift with all of us.
Yay! I looked at this cookbook the other day and decided I need to buy it for myself asap. Would love to win it instead.
Love your blog and thank you for thinking about us.
Wow thanks for the nice giveaway Jenna . . . I’d love to win this
I love the new format of your blog! Thank you for the giveaway!
Your blog makes my day. Love the pictures, the recipes and your general outlook. Stay Awesome.
I would love to own this cookbook! I miss Gourmet magazine…
I would love to win the cookbook!
p.s. i’m glad you changed your blog format. daily ‘what i ate’ posts leave little room for creativity. It was an under-utilization of your writing and cooking talent!
Great giveaway! I’d love to win this cookbook!
Holy cow! What a nice thing to do. Gourmet was a great magazine too. I was sad to see it go away. Thank you.
I LOVE reading your blog!!!!! You make some pretty amazing and quite tasty treats!
I am always cooking something that you’ve blogged about! I would love to win a cookbook that you always use & love.
I don’t enter a lot of giveaways…and I’ve never won one, but I’m going to give this give away a try, because I am hopeless in the kitchen and I need serious help!
Thanks!
wow i would love to “teach” myself to cook with this cookbook! happy holidays!
Your blog is great. Love your enthusiasm!
I love reading your blog every day and your photography skills are amazing! i’m so jealous
happy holidays!
I would love to win. I would also love to try new recipes from a new cookbook.
I love cookbooks!! That’s all I really want for christmas.. even though i’m an 18 year old college students who should be asking for like, clothes and money. Oh well, to each their own!
ahh! ever since reading “tender at the bone” i’ve absolutely adored ruth reichl. i would love to own this cookbook!
I would LOVE a cookbook for Christmas. It is on my list, but not sure if anyone will venture out for one!
I’ve wanted to get my hands on this book for months, just because of your blog. Thanks for all your posts which never fail to make me laugh. Or drool. Both compliments
I love cookbooks and this is one I don’t have! Pick me, pick me, oh random comment picker! Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
amazing giveaway!!! would love that cookbook to try out some new recipes. thanks!
Your blog was the first blog I ever subscribed too and I read it every day along with many others now!! I love to cook and most of all I love to inspire other people to cook. You did just that for me and thank you because I started my own blog a few weeks ago — with my best friend — and writing about our cooking has been so rewarding (despite the fact that our family and friends are basically our only loyal readers so far!). Thank you Jenna!
Awesome! Thank you
Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday week!
Great giveaway! I would love to win this cookbook!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
I love your blog and love the cookbook, I have the ‘gourmet today’ version (which is great!) and would love the original!!
I’ve wanted this cookbook ever since the first time you wrote about it! I want to fall in love with it as much as you have..
This is an exciting giveaway. I just started reading your blog about a month ago and I think I check your recipe section every day to make something new. My husband and my waistline appreciate you.
Also, I think you are super funny.
You should vote for me to be your cookbook winner.
Just got this book from the library to find new recipes, would love to have my own copy.
I’m in LURVE with cookbooks!
I have yet to start my own blog, but have a weekly blog roll I read with at least 30 different blogs I check up on. Just want you to know that your blog is the first one on the list!
How sweet, Jenna! I would love, love, LOVE a copy of this cookbook!!! But even more, I love, love, LOVE reading your blog posts every day. They’re always funny, honest, full of amazing photographs (um, food porn?), and heart felt.
I would love to win the cookbook! Yours is actually the first blog I ever read…it was recommended by a friend.
Hi Jenna! I love your site. Thank-you for the chance to win this incredible cookbook. Merry Christmas!
This would make me a happy girl on Christmas! I truly love your blog and look forward to seeing into your life a bit everyday. Happy holidays!
i love your blog and recipes especially, im trying to make your long winter molasses cookies some time in the next month.
Hey Jenna – I love reading your blog. Your story encourages me to follow my passion to relocate out to the West Coast (most likely OR), so I’m working on that. Plus, your recipes motivate me to cook more and have more fun! Thanks! Emily
I LOVE your blog.
Thanks for a great give-away!
Merry Christmas!!!
This would be an amazing thing to help begin my collection of cookbooks! I read your blogs every day and they have inspired me to bake/cook so much more!
Stumbled across your blog in the fall and have enjoyed it ever since. The recipes, pictures, and occasional cheeky humor keep me coming back.
I would love to win this! Merry Christmas!!
I love reading your blog, so much heart, soul, and laughter to fill each post! Even though I write a wine blog, your style of blogging is truly an inspiration for me! Thanks for putting on such a great give-away like this and sharing something with your readers that you are so passionate about! – (by the way, I am finished w/ my Wine Business Masters in Dijon, France and just moved back home to San Antonio, Texas. If you ever find yourself around these parts, or even back in Austin, do let me know!)
This would be a GREAT Christmas present!
Its the Holidays when you are able to enjoy your family. I also take time to remember those who are not with us! Miss you Dad!!!
I would loooooove to win this cookbook! Happy holidays
Fingers crossed, I win this!
I’d love to have this cookbook! I’ve just recently stopped working five 12 hour shifts at the hospiatal as a RN and am back down to a normal 3 12 hour shifts a week and am planning on cooking and baking a lot more! This would be perfect to add to my cookbook shelf!
I’m always looking for new and well-read cookbooks.
What a great giveaway at the holidays! So generous of you!
I have been looking for a good cookbook for ahwhile. I tend to just find recipes online, so this would be great. Happy Holidays!
That cookbook is wanted of the things I’ve wanted for Christmas!! Great giveaway
I would love, Love, LOVE a copy! You’re seriously one of my favorite bloggers ever, you teach us to ENJOY food- from taking the time to make it, to eating the final product. I’m just still thrilled that I made buttercream frosting for the first time and it turned out so well. I was scared it was going to stay runny, then poof! Fluffy, magical, sweet buttercream!
Please please please pick me! I would love to be able to cook the wonderful foods you do! Love your blog!
Merry Christmas!!!
I hope to try your flourless chocolate cake recipe when I FINALLY get home for winter break this week– it looks amazing! Hopefully it’ll get some of my family’s trust back in me baking– I tried to make brownies healthy over the summer, and they found out what was in them… they weren’t too thrilled.
Merry Christmas! I really enjoy your blog and have enjoyed a lot of the recipes from here that I have tried.
would LOVE this cookbook as an early xmas present!
your post this morning made me laugh so hard! thank you for the great blog and merry Christmas.
The Gourmet cookbook is on my wishlist! Thank you for making it ok for me to spend my days wearing yoga pants and my pink apron and finding frosting in my hair.
Every recipe you make that is inspired by this book look amazing! It would be awesome to have my very own copy! Happy Holidays!!
Merry Christmas, Jenna!
Ohhh I would love this!!! Merry Christmas!
I’m relatively new to your blog, but I really enjoy it! Merry Christmas!
I love your blog. In fact, I actually dreamt about my dog tracking funfetti cake all over the house last night after reading your recent cupcake entry!
Yours is the first blog I read, and still read daily! I enjoy your common sense approach. I’d love this cookbook as I could use all the help I can get in that department!!!
I have this book on my Christmas wish list based solely on your recommendation. I may have to stop reading your blog, however, because I keep making the things, and then I eat them, and soon enough that will be a problem
Merry Christmas!
I’d love to win a copy of the big yellow Bible. I’ll even let my cat nibble on it and I’ll get it messy with food stains, promise. Merry Christmas, Jenna!
Wow, that’s sweet of you to do a giveaway like this around the holidays!
I love new cookbooks… one can’t have too many… I don’t think
Ohh I would love this cookbook, I have a slite obession with cookbooks
Thank you for continuing to blog about something you are passionate about. It truly radiates throughout your blog and I am very appreciative.
Love your blog. I hope I win!
I’d love to have this cookbook! I was in the market for a new and interesting one and this looks fantastic!
Hey hey! It all started years ago when you made that gym ab workout and ever since I’ve been in love with your blog. Some of my favorite highlights this year were for sure the chilli cookoff yall had a few weeks back. Hope for many more posts to come in 2011!
xoxo
Maggie
mybreakfastblog.com
I’d love to take a peek inside this little gem…well, even if I don’t win I’ll take a peek at B&N.
Merry Christmas!
I need thus cookbook so I can come home from my recently crappy days to cook therapeutically.
Ooh! There is nothing better than a great cookbook! Well, Little House on the Prairie, maybe. However, I think at this point in my life, admitting I have cook book obsession is more age appropriate. Of course, age appropriate or not, I decided I am going to Walnut Grove this summer for the Wilder Pageant.
Oooh I’ve heard that’s a great cookbook!
I love you for giving away a Christmas present that’s so important to you!
I just wanted to coment before Lauren Z does!
Count me in! That’s one we don’t have yet.
you are welcome.
I would love more cookbooks!!
Thanks for a great blog – Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
I will happily take this cookbook new or old!!! Merry Christmas!!!
Is it weird that I like to read cookbooks from cover to cover like a book?
Roses are red,
Voilets are blue
I’m naming my firstborn Ruth Reichl,
and you know you will too.
I hope I get the slobbery, dirty, loved copy!
Wow… lots of posts already! Hoping I win the cookbook! I LOVE cooking. And would love to say I bake as well, but I have troubles with the exact measurements. My fiance says I’m too impatient to bake. I say there just isn’t enough wiggle room for experimenting.
I would even take your used, slobbery, burnt copy! I love cookbooks!!!!!!
I am not a frequent commenter, but I read your blog everyday! I would love a copy of your favorite cookbook. Maybe it will make me able to cook as good as you too?!?
Love love love your blog! Creative and inspiring……..Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
I love those kind of cookbooks that are always a good go to for inspiration!
I love your website. I hope I’m the winner!
if it’s your favorite it must be a good cookbook! would love to receive a copy of it! merry christmas!
I never comment but I am willing to for the possibility of a cook book! I love all of your recipes. I try them frequently.
This has been on my wish list forever! So exciting!
Merry Christmas Jenna!
I was scrolling down to click comment on this post and saw a dangerously delicious looking post from yesterday..I almost abadoned ship to read it. I need to read and make asap!
Your personality really shines through in your posts…that’s what I appreciate about an author. Merry Christmas!
swwwwwweeeeeeeet!!! I would love to own a copy of this cookbook!!
I love your blog for the photos and your great writing style! Thanks for the giveaway!! I would love to win!!
I have never heard about this cookbook but I am sure its great and I love any cookbook!
never posted before but i read your blog every day and keep trying lots of your recipes! i’ve even been impressing the husband!! my girls and i just made the mini-cakes – so much fun and yummy. thanks for your blog and the give away!
I saw this at the library but something tells me it’s a must own cookbook. If I don’t win, I’ll have to borrow it and never return it…who did I learn that trick from?
I have heard such wonderful things about this cookbook!! I really need to broaden my recipe repertoire, as I cook the same 5 or 6 dishes over and over! Thanks for the contest!!
I keep up with your blog every day and absoulutely LOVE it! I’ve used a ton of your recipes and will surely use this cookbook!
Yay for giveaways! To be quite honest, I think I would never complain if you decided to write posts only regarding sweets. You definitely have a knack for desserts! Love the blog
I loved Ruth Reichle’s Tender at the Bone. I’m sure this cookbook is fantastic. Very interesting lady. Your blog inspires some great cooking and baking. I like the direction you’ve taken with it.
I have a HORRENDOUS cookbook addiction. I don’t own this one yet! Count me in!
Love everything about the blog, and I use your recipes all the time – Linzer cookies tonight when I get home – I’ve also just made the cranberry bread and the Oh Baby bars! I’d love to have this cook book!
Pick me! Pick me!
Yiiippppeeeeeeeeeee!
I love cookbooks! and I think I would love this one:)
To die for!!
Jenna, I’ll bake my way to a future bakery with this collection or, love explosion!
But, good luck to everyone.. :*D
I’m just venturing into the world of converting things to gluten free & blogging about it- Sounds like this cookbook would be a great source of inspiration for me!
P.S: I’ve just started following your blog, but it’s by far one of my faves!
Hope I win so I can re-create these items I’ve been drolling over for the past few years!
Happy Holiday’s!!
This is the first blog I really loved, and this is an awesome giveaway!!!
I refuse to brown nose for the cookbook. Have you lost weight? You look amazing!
I love cookbooks, and I’ve been on the lookout for a good “go-to” one lately! I don’t have this one in my collection yet, so if I don’t win it, I may just have to go buy it anyway!
Thanks for the chance!! Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays! I would love a cookbook!
Pick me, pick me!
Merry Christmas Jenna!
I love your blog jenna! I appreciate how the blog has changed overtime, from focusing on diet and exercise to enjoying life and cooking rich and satisfying food. Over the past few years I had a similar progression and now am not anywhere near as gung ho (sp?) about dieting, exercise and weightloss. Thanks for your inspiring blog posts! Oh and that gourmet book has been opn my wishlist for years would love to have a copy some day.
What a fabulous give away! I actually don’t own any real cookbooks this would be great to have!
I love that book! I don’t own it but everyone I know that owns- it is a staple of theirs too!
I love new cookbooks! Merry Christmas!
We’re eat at homebodies always on the lookout for a new cookbook. Sure would like to give this one a try.
Merry Christmas Jenna! Thanks for the great opportunity! I have been reading your blog for over 2 years now and look forward to it every day. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into it!
Even though i just recently started reading your blog, i love it… i even have it listed on my blog. thanks for sharing!
Merry Christmas Jenna! Your blog is so inspiring, and you are absolutely adorable!
Merry Christmas
I’ve always wanted a copy of that cookbook! Hope I win!
I love Gourmet! It would make a great gift for my French friend who is always looking for new cookbooks..
I love you blog and have been reading it for years!
I read RR’s book “Comfort Me With Apples” a few years back and loved it. So, I can’t believe I’ve never checked out this cookbook. Would love a chance to win!!
Merry Christmas!
GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Merry Christmas Jenna! Thanks for bringing us all cheer and inspiration
sweet giveaway!!!! merry christmas!
I have had my eye on this cookbook for a while now. I love your site, its my favorite blog!
jenna, your blog makes me happy. i love that you make things (like oreos and funfetti cake) and have a way about it that doesn’t have any weird ingredients but is still as delightfully fun as that funfetti in a box. even though you’re doing this for your readers, i hope you know your readers enjoy you even more!
You’re so much fun to read – so thank you! The cookbook for me would be suh-weet.
I was flipping through this at the bookstore the other day because you praise it so much – I would love my own copy!!!!
I was thinking… maybe if I owned this cookbook, I would you know… actually cook. Wishful thinking?
Heh!
In all seriousness Jenna – your blog is awesome (and so are you)! Keep on doing what you’re doing girl!
Cool giveaway
thanks!
This looks like an AMAZING cookbook!
Oh man… I’ve wanted that cookbook for a long time.
Ooo I would love that cookbook! You always post great recipes and I would love to become a cooking expert one day. I want my friends to be able to come to me for advice
I would love a copy!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love your blog.
Sara
Love your writing!
Jenna, your blog ALWAYS makes me hungry. And happy. Thank you for bringing so much sunshine and happiness to cooking!
I have ZERO cookbooks so I feel like this one would be an excellent first for my future collection.
This is wonderful! I would love this cookbook. Thanks for doing this Jenna! Have a very merry Christmas!
Would adore this!
I so badly want this cookbook! It’s on my expensive cookbook wish list, along with Ad Hoc and Alinea at Home.
If I win the cookbook would you mind sending some homemade Oreos too?? Pretty please?
I always have a stack of cookbooks next to my bed and this would be a GREAT addition. (p.s. my coworkers have fallen in love with your old fashioned ginger cookies and bohemian wedding cake – thank you!!)
I am dying to make the funfetti cupcakes you posted yesterday!!!
Kelsey
I would love this cookbook…Merry Christmas!!!
love your blog! i love to cook and dream about doing what you do!!
BEST giveaway ever! Thanks Jenna! By the way, the most recent recipes you have been posting are to die for!
So many of your recipes have become regulars at our house. Lentil loaf, chili, and old fashioned sugar cookies to name a few! Thanks for being such a great resource.
Jenna you inspire me with your humor and attitude toward food and life in general – reading your recipes and writing always make me smile. You have such a gift – I’m so glad you love what you do!
Thank you, Jenna! You do such an incredible job here on ELR and I thoroughly enjoy reading every post! Keep up the good work:)
Aghhhh I don’t know if my cooking is GOURMET worthy yet but I would love to try. Thanks Jenna!
Oh! I’ve been eyeing this cookbook since you rave about it all the time! I’d love my own copy!!
What a great giveaway, thanks! Happy holidays!!
Keep doing what you do! We appreciate you just as much as you do us!!
I LOVE your blog!! I made gingerbread cookies from the gingerbread recipe you posted and they were DELICIOUS!!!
Keep up the great work!
I would love to win the Gourmet cookbook! Amazing giveaway.
I keep seeing the cookbook in stores and think of your recommendation. I would love this! Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas, Jenna! Love your blog… and would love to own this cookbook
I would love to get my hands on that cook book! thanks for sharing the love!
I always look forward to your light-hearted perspective on fabulous food … I’d love to be able to cook more of it with this cookbook, too! Merry Christmas.
Send me the cookbook, please! Love the recipes and love Ruth Reichel.
Oh how I would love to have a copy of that cookbook!!!! Happy HOlidays!
I could so use a cookbook that I could use everyday! I am stuck in a total cooking rut!
I love your blog- it helps me procrastinate while I’m at work. I’m just learning to cook (mostly because I have a boyfriend and am trying to be domestic now) and have used several of your recipes. The autumn mac and cheese was a big hit! Thought I’d attempt to win a book of great recipes. Thanks for the daily laughs!
Courtney
I’ve been sort of obsessed with finding really great cookbooks lately! I asked for an apron for Christmas because I really want to start learning to cook for real and better hone by baking skills
I would love this cookbook and already love your blog! Thanks for all the great stuff 
I am really looking forward to winning this cookbook! Thank you for all the inspiration and enjoyable reading you provide all your fans!
Merry Christmas to you Jenna!
Yay for Gourmet!!!
Would love a copy of this cookbook! Happy Holidays dear!!
I have GOT to see what this cookbook is all about!
Happy Holidays, Jenna
Wow! What a great giveaway! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas
I love your blog! I love your food! and I would love to have a cookbook that you love!! Happy Holidays!
Pick me please…I’ve been wanting this cookbook since I first heard about it!!! (through your blog of course!)
Great giveaway!! Love your blog~ read it everyday : )
Thank you, Jenna! It’s been a great year trying out all of YOUR recipes! Can’t wait until Thursday to make the new mint oreos:) Would love to see your “Bible”!!!
Merry Christmas and God Bless.
looks awesome! I’d love to win this!
I hadn’t ever heard of this cookbook until I started reading your blog. . .I know, I know, that’s practically sacrilegious!! (I wasn’t much of a cook or baker for that matter before. . . ) Now that I know what I know, I would LOVE a copy of it!!
I love Ruth, but don’t have this book. Yay for giveaways!!!
I got this from the library after seeing and reading about how much you use it. It is now on my wish list, but haven’t gotten it yet. Would be a great Christmas present for me though!
I love the recipes that you write about. They make baking look so fun and easy!
This cookbook looks great! I’d love to expand my collection and try new recipes! Thanks for all the tips and beautiful photos you share. Happy holidays!
I love Gourmet, Ruth Reichl, and You! Thanks for doing this giveaway – I hope I win!
What a great way to thank your readers! Happy Holidays to you, Jenna!
Thank you for the giveaway Jenna, and for sharing all of your amazing recipes and, especially, your outlook on life.
I made your lemon brown sugar chicken last night and it was amazing!
No, thank you!!! For always providing a wonderful laugh along with scrumptious recipes. You truly LIVE your life, and it is inspiring.
could i forego the cookbook and instead have you make a recipe out of it?!
I love new cookbooks, esp. one that comes highly praised! It’s very sweet of you, too!!! Have a great day!
I am a cookbook junkie! However I do not have this little beauty yet!
Hope you have a wonderful holiday!!
I would LOVE a copy of that cookbook! I’ll even take the slobbery one
You really inspire me to get creative in the kitchen & I adore your blog!! Merry Christmas!
I think I speak for everyone when I say that we appreciate you just as much as, if not more than. You appreciate us! Thank you for all you do
love your blog and would love to win this cookbook :] thanks for a great giveaway!
Looks like a fabulous cookbook!
I don’t have the Gourmet cookbook but I feel like I know the recipes in it because of your mentions. Would love a copy!
Love your blog! Love Ruth Reichl!
Pick me, pick me!!! I’ve been dying to own this treasure…
I would love to have this book
Yippee! Happy Holidays!
I love that you are doing this giveaway because it is a book that you love and truly believe in! Thanks for sharing – I’d love to win a copy!
ooh, I could always use a new cookbook that is highly recommended by one of my favorite bloggers!
Pick me, pick me! Because I’m your bacon loving soulmate.
This is what I want for Christmas! Can’t wait to make more fabulous meals to impress the bf!
I would love to own this cookbook! Great blog, Jenna– it’s my favorite
Merry Christmas!
This is great. Have a happy holidays and a safe trip home!
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i’d love that cookbook!
I would love a new cookbook!
Jenna,
You have no idea how much I have come to appreciate YOUR daily good cheer, your extraordinary talents and your sweet humor. I’ve been reading your blog regularly since early in your culinary school days, and yet this was the year that you’ve really come into your own – both as an innovative chef and as a unique voice in the food writing arena – and as a relateable Internet friend. This year, you’ve done such a terrific job of listening and really connecting with each of us on a personal level. As a result, the dialogue on ELR has become consistently upbeat, friendly, free of harsh comments; visiting your site everyday is pure joy for me. I so admire your growth and so appreciate the gifts you share every day, Jenna.
Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays and all the best in the coming year!
This is so sweet of you! This would be my first cookbook=)
yum
that would certainly be a treat.
p.s. i’m still salivating here at work after working with vanilla beans for the first time last night while creating your funfetti cupcakes. i should have brought some vanilla beans to eat at work today… would that be weird?
I have thought about buying this cookbook so many times, but have never talked myself into it. What an amazing Christmas present it would be!
Lovely giveaway from a lovely blog. Merry Christmas with your family in the south.
Love your blog and all your food! Merry Christmas!!
What a nice gift! I need some more recipe inspiration and this would be wonderful. Thanks!
Merry Christmas! I’ve been dying to get this book! Love Ruth Reichl.
I love your blog and would love that cookbook!
Thanks so much for the giveaway and for writing the blog. Happy holidays!
Seems like a great book to have! I love your blog
Hope you are having a great holiday season!
I would love to win this cookbook. Its exactly what i wanted for Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you! I hope you have a wonderful holiday!
OMG I totally want this!
What a fun giveaway! I would love this cookbook
Your copy only shows how much love it has received over the years
Thanks for a great year on ELR!
Jenna,
I absolutely love your blog and the direction that you have taken it! Thanks for the giveaway! I used to love Gourmet Magazine and I still frequent their site weekly looking for recipes! I’m sure that the cookbook is amazing. Happy Holidays!
Michelle
Thanks for hosting the giveaway! Merry Christmas
What a great giveaway
I love the new direction of your blog.
Nice giveaway!
I made the Buttermilk Chocolate Cupcakes for my sons birthday last week. They are the new ‘go to’ cupcake! Everyone raved about them and the Buttercream frosting…to die for! Thanks!
Very exciting, I hope I win! Thanks!
Merry Christmas! I love reading your blog. I stumbled upon it about 6 months ago after moving to CA from NJ. It’s inspired me to get creative in the kitchen and opened my eyes to the world of food blogs…so thank you
I’m about to get started on your old fashioned gingerbread cookies, yummmmm!
Hey Jenna! I’m a long-time reader and have always loved your blog! I’m headed to Vero Beach next week, which always reminds me of you
Oooo I have been craving a new cookbook – This would be awesome!
Awesome, awesome giveaway!
Just yesterday, I was thinking about how to make those 3 ingredient cookies gluten and dairy free. I’ll let you know when I have success!
I need a cookbook! Like, for real. I have none and can’t cook. Help!!
Merry Christmas to you!
Would LOVE a copy of this cookbook! I find your blog very inspiring, therefore would probably find the cookbook very inspiring
Jenna, I LOVE your blog! I look forward to reading it over breakfast every day. When I opened the post on your exercise wear obsession, I felt we were soulmates–it’s a feat for me to not wear Lululemon on any given day.
As I’m approaching college graduation, your story is inspiring to really just do what you love. Moving to Santa Clara (Yeah, Bay Area!) on a whim was so encouraging that no matter where I go, opportunities will arise and everything will work out.
Thanks for sharing your stories!
How exciting!! I have one cookbook…well, and one I’m sort of working on….printed out recipes from blogs
I’ve started a notebook!
Jenna, I love your blog, you make me wish I wasn’t such a hopeless baker!
I don’t feel I would deserve this because I don’t feel like I’m “one of those readers” that could warm your heart or make you do this or enjoy this.
I wish
But just know that I love how you are being true to YOURSELF. You are destined for great things in your own right.
I wish I could bake and write without abandon – and not eat it all
– but one day?…
Heck, I did kinda, sorta, (obviously) get inspiration for my own blog name from you
My entire Christmas list was cookbooks…and a cookie scoop and baking mat…I’ve been spending too much time on your blog
Wow!!! There are alot of people that want that cookbook!!! LOL…..and count me to that list cause I would love, love, love that cookbook!!!!
You have inspired me to bake and cook again. Thank you.
I would love love love to have this cookbook on my shelf. . . it’s in my amazon wishlist
, Love your blog and wishing you a verry merry from Atlanta!
I would love a copy of this cookbook! I can definitely see it becoming a staple in my kitchen!
If I don’t win, I’m going to have to give in and buy it.
Happy holidays!!1
I adore your blog!
I don’t know whether you ship internationally or not, but here’s to hoping – I’m entering anyway
What a great giveaway! I would love to receive this. I need a good staple cookbook and it sounds like this is it. Thank you for the opportunity!
Would love this cookbook! Thanks for a wonderful giveaway.
mmalavec@med.umich.edu
i would love this cookbook. I just moved and am starting to build up my kitchen cookbook and supplies, and this would be such a great addition! merry xmas!
i love everything about your blog, and i’d be so thrilled to own this cookbook!
I’ve wanted a copy of this since you rave about it so often!
Merry Christmas!
Oh. My. Goodness, Gourmet me up chickie!!! Merry Christmas
I love reading your blog! I find new ‘must-try’ recipes almost every day here. I hope the recipes keep coming! And I would of course love winning the Gourmet cookbook.
Jenna – I love your blog! I have been following you for almost a year now, and I enjoy all your meal creations and work-out tips! Thanks for motivating me
Aw, how fun! Happy holidays, Jenna!
would LOVE a copy of this book!
pick me!
Long time reader, very sporadic commenter. Love the new direction you’ve taken recently, and if this cookbook can help me make things that look half as appealing as what you feature every day, then I’d love to win this copy! (and my husband would love you, too!)
I love your blog
Merry Christmas to you! Cheers to your new blog style, I am loving it!
Happy holidays!!!!
This cookbook looks cool! I would love to gourmet-ify my cooking
yay for a giveaway…i love the new direction of your blog!
I would love this cookbook!
Gourmet brings back great memories. My mom collected every magazine.
I’d love a copy of that cookbook!
This book looks amazing…would love to get it for my BF, who is an incredible cook and lives in the cookbook aisle at Borders. Seriously, he needs an intervention.
$ is extremely tight this year (I lost my job in October) and presents will be scarce. This would be a wonderful gift to give!
Thanks for the giveaway! Great blog!!
Thank you so much for the giveaway! I love cookbooks, and this one has been on my list of ones to buy for ages!
This cookbook is on my Amazon Wish List! I would love to win it!
I’ve been wanting this cookbook FOR. EV. ER!!
I’ve been reading your blog from the beginning and I love the new direction it’s heading in except I frequently want to lick my screen while reading it! What? Is that weird?
Love the blog and all the recipes!! Keep them coming!
Oooh Jenna this makes me so excited! I really hope you pick me
I read your blog every day and love your outlook on life and food. I also promise to keep my copy of the book pretty and clean for as long as possible!
I also promise not to set in on fire like I did to the Joy of Cooking….uh oops.
Love your blog – love cooking, baking and eating – and I’m SURE I’d love this cookbook!
This cookbook has been in my amazon cart since you started singing its praise!! Cookbooks are my favorite
I would love the cookbook! Considering how delicious all your recipes look every day.
I would love to add this cook book to my collection thank you for such a great giveaway!
I have been reading this blog for awhile now and vey much relate to your passion for food and life! You are a joy to read about and I would love to create some of the dishes you have made from this cookbook!
If I don’t win this, I’ll probably end up just going out and buying it for myself!
Oh yay!!!
New cookbook
Hi Jenna! I’ve had this book on my list to (someday) buy since you raved about it a few months ago! Thanks for the giveaway and Merry Christmas
Your blog makes me want to cook more and more each day. I am a few years older than you, and it’s also giving me the courage to pursue my dreams with full conviction. Thanks! And Happy Holidays!
Oh how sweet! I’ve been eyeing this one for a while, and its on my Amazon “wish list” but with everyone else to shop for this Christmas, gifts for myself haven’t been a priority. MERRY CHRISTMAS and have a safe trip home!
I would love to have this cookbook. Thank you!
Oooh! This is a great giveaway! It’d be perfect for my mom & I. We’ve been baking and cooking up a storm now that we are able to spend more time together.
I’m just hoping I’m allowed to participate, even though I’m not from the US of A.
Love your blog by the way…
What a great giveaway! I have recently stepped up my cooking came, so this would be awesome to win.
Is this giveaway just in the US or Canada as well? I’d love a chance to win!
Would looooove to own a copy of “the Bible.” I actually just printed out your cranberry orange walnut bread to make tonight! I used cranberries on a cheese platter this weekend and thought it’d be a great way to use them up.
Love a good cookbook! And if it has your stamp of approval I’m in!
I would love to win one for christmas!! Your website inspires me daily….its an addiction!!
great giveaway!
i’ve been thinking about buying this cookbook forever!!!! you’d make me the happiest lady in the land if i could win it
Pretty new reader, here. A bit intimidated by there being over 600 replies already. Granted this is for a giveaway, but that’s more than the the top 3 posts I’ve read at Get Rich Slowly!
I want it!
My boyfriend comes home from Afghanistan in 3 WEEKS and I can’t wait to cook and have nice dinners together again!
I LOVE trying new cookbooks, so hopefully the random selector will pick me!!
i’d love this book. i’m a ruth reichl fan. have you read her autobiographical works – tender at the bone and garlic and sapphires? great reads!
oooohh! i want it, my grandmother always bought me a cookbook for christmas, and i have the best of gourmet 20th anniversary, but not this one. merry christmas jenna!
I’ve been a reader for a very long time (although I don’t comment much) and your readers are thankful for your posts, recipes, stories, pictures, etc. Happy Holidays!
I would LOVE that book! I am always looking for great cookbooks! And this one is Jenna approved!
I would love to have a copy of this cookbook! I love your blog and the cooking/baking inspiration it provides me! Especially recipes that come with so much nostalgia in them, like the “oreos” you posted the other day
If it’s a staple in your cooking than it sounds great, I have really enjoyed all of the recipe’s I made off this site. I will be making more Classic Linzer Cookies tomorrow!!
I have always wanted to get my hands on this cookbook!
Great giveaway!
You have inspired me and my views on the celebration of food in so many ways. I absolutely adore your blog and your passion for what you love!
My hubby’s family (the chefs) have a copy of that cookbook and love it! I would love a copy! If they like it and you like it, it must be amazing!
I would LOVE one!
Well this seems like the perfect post to make my first ever ELR comment. I have been enjoying your blog for months and love your fresh perspective, photos and joie de vivre! Thanks for sharing Jenna!
is this a comment record? whoa! i hope i win
I’d love to own a copy of your favorite cookbook!
Jenna – posting (parts of) your life for the world to see is a frightening thing. How can people judge you for just being who you are? You’re a fantastic person, and however you choose to live your life is your own business. We’re just privileged to be coming along for the ride
Jenna, a few months ago, I stumbled upon your blog, and my desire (and attempts) to cook from home have increased dramatically ever since. Every day, I go into my google reader and I hope for an update from your blog. Not only are your recipes fantastic, but you are witty and funny and just really easy to read (easy, in the sense that, I never skim your blog posts [I always skim blog posts]). Keep cooking and writing– the sanity of your readers depend upon it!
Ooh! This is a good one! I’d love to add it to my (small) cookbook library.
This would be amazing
I would love this cookbook! I finally (sigh) have my very own kitchen to bake/cook and dirty up on my very own and I would love to break it in with a new cookbook!!
Hi Jenna! I read your blog daily and just love it! I would love a chance to win a cookbook that you enjoy
p.s. I wish I looked as great as you without going to the gym
I’ve been following you since last summer, and your delicious baking and cooking keep me coming back every day. It’s kind of like food porn. lol
Oh, I’d love to win this – I think the staff at Borders are starting to think it’s odd, the way I stare and drool over it every time I go there.
I just got my mom’s old stand mixer and am SO excited – would love a new cookbook to go with it!
oooh this would be the best Christmas present ever!
It seems to have amazing recipes 
What a great giveaway! Merry Christmas
i’d love this!! i hope i win
Happy to see you truly enjoying life through food and I hope to see you finding joy in life next year as well. Merry Christmas, Jenna!
Your year in review has been so much fun to read. Can’t wait for 2011
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I’ve been searching for the perfect cookbook to work my way through. For you to say a cookbook is your favorite means a lot!
PS – I love the picture you selected for this post.
I have been wanting to buy that cookbook ever since you started talking about it. What a wonderful giveaway. Have a wonderful and Merry Christmas!
I already own “The Joy of Cooking” so “The Gourmet Cookbook” would be a perfect addition!
Oooooh!!! I want I want!
I love reading your blog. You are relatable on many levels and have inspired me to try so many new things in the kitchen. My tummy (and my boyfriend’s) thank you.
I always read but never comment, so today seemed like a good day to begin! I adore your blog. I love the beautiful photos and the decadent recipes. I love that you called your boyfriend Almanzo for the the longest time. I love that you are a southern girl at heart. I love how much you love your family. Thanks for brightening my day!!
Hi Jenna! I love your blog and I love that cookbook. I would love to own a copy for myself.
Love your blog! And cookbooks! Would love to win!
Ahhh! I have SO been coveting this cookbook! What an awesome giveaway Jenna! Hope I win:)
I’m so curious about this cookbook! I’d love to try it!
Hi Jenna! I love your blog and cant wait to read it every day. My aunt always told me that you could tell a cookbook was loved by the number of stains, rips and tatters on the pages. Many of my cookbooks look like this to this day. Definitely will have to check out your favorite cookbook too!
I want, yes please!
awesome giveaway! i have been wanting this book!
what a fun giveaway!! i have 2 cookbooks to my name and rarely refer to them, so it’d be a treat to have such a tried and true one like this! really enjoying your holiday posts. merry christmas
I love cookbooks, this would be a great addition to the ones I already have!
I’m excited about the direction your blog is taking. I started following you originally for the fitness aspect, but I totally respect that you are doing what you love. That’s what life’s all about!
and we seriously appreciate you! I make more recipes from your blog than any other food blog I read.
LOVE your blog and because you so often cook out of this book – i want to try out! thanks for being awesome.
Hey Jenna! Thanks so much for your blog and your posts! I always find myself eager to check for new posts!
I thoroughly enjoy reading it! Merry Christmas!
Ellen
Hi! Would love to have the chance to read the cookbook you love so much. Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season!
Hi Jenna,
I happily stumbled upon your blog last summer and have read it daily ever since…I’ve tried many of your recipes too:) Keep up the awesome job you’re doing…you inspire me and got me back into the kitchen!
This cookbook has been on my wish list for awhile. Thanks for hosting the giveaway, and thanks for entertaining and inspiring us every day!
When I have a bad day, it always makes me feel at least a bit better to come and look at all of your delicious treats and stories! Happy holidays!
Cook books = food porn.
Happy, happy food porn.
I’d love to win this. Merry Christmas!
Such great giveaway timing! Happy holidays!
I want this cookbook. There, I said it.
You are great!
Love your blog! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
I think I need this cookbook. I just eat oatmeal and cereal everyday and live vicariously through the recipes on your blog. I’m def in a rut!
I love ELR and have been wanting this book, mostly based on your recommendations! Happy Holidays
I have been wanting this cookbook since you rave about it so much. Can’t wait for YOUR book to be out!!
Oh goodness, I could definitely use a good cookbook or two. I’m hopeless in the kitchen
love this giveaway! happy holidays!!
I totally need this!
Yay! Cookbook!
Crossing my fingers!! Thanks for the giveaway, Jenna, and even more for the wonderful blog. I love reading it every day!
pick me! pick me! love your blog, your recipes, and your last post about quitting the gym.
I was actually thinking I would buy this cookbook as an x-mas/bday present to myself… maybe I won’t need to??? (fingers crossed!) Thanks Jenna
The cooking bible! I love it!
more than anything I love the zest you have for life and cooking! you stay true to yourself and that inspires me everyday!
This is quite the competitive giveaway! I love your blog and i’m making your cranberry orange bread for christmas morning
I love Ruth Reichl and I have had my eyes on this cookbook for months because you talk about it so much! I would loooove to win a cop of this!
OOO. That looks like a fancy cookbook. And a gourmet one too.
(Gourmet? Get it!?!?)
Sigh.
I crack myself up
I’m trying to build up my very own cookbook collection, now that I don’t live at home and can’t have access to my parents’ massive bookshelf of cookbooks, so this would be the perfect addition.
Love your blog and especially all of your new dessert recipes!
Was in the grocery store w my fiancé today and he saw funfetti cake mix. He asked if I could make him some and I told him I have the perfect recipe! I’m about to go make those cupcakes! Thank you for all the fabulous recipes lately. I am a baking fiend and I owe so much of it to you!!!!
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Great giveaway ps!!!
Thanks again!!!
I enjoy reading your website and seeing you share your love of food with others, Jenna. If I win this cookbook, I plan to “pay it forward” and make food for family and friends and share my love of food (just like you do!) with them!
No, THANK YOU, while I don’t post much, I am a dedicated reader, and have been since the start…would LOVE LOVE a of Gourmet!
hey i kinda want to be you. keep on being awesome. k in all seriousness ELR is my favorite blog!
I would love a new cookbook! ELR was the first food blog I ever read.
i’d love this cookbook!!
Oh, I hope I get this! I love all your recipes and I love all cookbooks, this would be a great Christmas present. Thanks!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE ELR!!! Happy Holidays!!!
Looks like a great cookbook! i would love to try it out. Merry Christmas Jenna!
The other day I used the brownie recipe you recently posted to make a dessert for my parents to bring to the neighborhood Christmas party. However, we didn’t have any peppermint patties, but we did have a TON of mini candy bars still leftover from Halloween. So, I placed the candy bars on top of the first layer of batter. I also had to leave off the marshmallows b/c we didn’t have any. Let me tell you, the brownies were delish!!! My mom has a new favorite dessert!
I would love a copy of this cookbook. I’ve read several of Ruth Reichl’s books and loved them!
When I’m having a bad day, I come to your blog and you make (almost) everything better! I seriously drool on my laptop several times a week when I read your blog. And I want that cookbook!!!!!
Merry Christmas.
Yes, please!!
Pick me! Pick me! I need so much help cooking it’s not even funny!
even a contest can get a comment from non-commenting me. but thank you for everything! those s’more mint brownies are on docket next.
just recently came across your website thru tasty kitchen. love your recipes, love your style! made your chocolate chip cookies . . . amazing! and the big sur lemon bars were phenomenal. keep up the amazing work!
Cookbooks are an obsession of mine, I’d love to add yours to my collection!
Please integer thinngy…please pick me!!
Thanks,
Stacy
Happy holidays!
OMG…I would LOVE to get this…so nice of you to have this giveaway!
I love your blog! I am a dietitian so I have a passion for food and healthy living and you make it fun!
I would love to get this book!
Great giveaway!
I would LOVE a copy for Christmas!!
p.s. I love your blog I’ve been following it for over a year now
I would LOVE this cookbook! I own too few!
I keep trying to find this at the library, but it’s always checked out! I know I could put a hold on it, but my library has started charging for holds now and I refuse to do it on principle. (-:
Now THAT would be a great stocking stuffer! Merry Chrismas!
I have just started address my cookbook collection – and the lack there of. I cook and bake everyday and NEVER, well hardly..eat out anymore.
This would be a great addition to my shelf, and I am sure my taste buds.
I am not anymore deserving than anyone else! So all the best!!
Merry Christmas!
Your blog is fantastic
HELLO~ I am a long time reader and occasional commenter. i have always enjoyed your blog but really love it with the new direction you have taken with it. Oh, and I also really really really love cookbooks
I collect cookbooks and would love to win!
thank you for your wonderful blog! i look forward to your witty and delicious posts every day
That is my all time favorite cookbook. I absolutely love your blog and have been reading it nonstop since I discovered it. Thanks for all the smiles.
Thanks for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
Love your blog! Helps me to remember the important things!
What a fun giveaway! I would love a copy of that recipe book! Also, very refreshing and honest post about exercise and workouts. I love your authenticity.
This cookbook looks awesome! Maybe it will make me as inventive as you?
I have been reading your blog for a while now, but have never commented – your recipes are amazing! The oreo recipe you just posted looks to die for…but I’m afraid to make them when nobody else is home
haha. I might end up in a sugar coma!
Anyway, I’d love to win the cookbook – thanks for such an awesome giveaway!
I would love to win a copy of this cookbook- thanks!!!
Happy Holidays! This would be an awesome book to win. I love your blog and the new direction it’s taken. I would love to hear more about your journey from fitness junkie to food lover, as you briefly talked about in a post this week.
I almost bought this a few months ago!!
I would love to win! Happy Holidays!
Pick me, pick me!!
I love love love your blog, and I’m following you on Facebook….. AND …. Today happens to be my birthday…for real!!! I would love to win.
Happy Holidays!
I’m a big fan of ELR and love your food philosophy!! PICK ME!!
P.S. Happy Holidays!!
What a lovely offer.
I have had this book out from the library and would be thrilled to have my own copy to spill things on….and even cook out of!
Thank you for offering this to your readers!
I love love LOVE your blog! Your photography is amazing and your recipes are scrumptious! Keep on doing whatever it is your doing…because I’m hooked!
This is my favorite blog. I love that you’ve changed from documenting every morsel that you put into your mouth/every calorie burned to showcasing real, delicious foods. Keep up the mouth-wateringly good recipes! Thank and happy holidays!
Hi Jenna, Love reading your blog, you are a beautiful person, I feel good energy from you! Thanks for the giveaway.
Woo, looove cookbooks! Thanks for blogging, I love reading every day!
I love your blog. It’s such a joy to read.
I have been slowly branching out with cooking. I baked homemade white bread this weekend for Christmas gifts to go with specialty jam. And, I must thank you for introducing me to Garam Masala and Sriacha hot sauce!
I love your blog, and I have been dying to try out this cookbook – it has to be amazing, considering the recipes it inspires!
Really nice giveaway. I love reading your blog..
Yay!!! my mom has this cookbook and I loveee it.
Your blog is amazing and makes me drool daily while I stare at your awesome food pics! I’d love to try this cookbook. Keep up the great work!
Gah I love cookbooks! I need the guidance to make sure I dont poison anyone:)
I absolutely LOVE your blog and would be just thrilled to win!!!
I would love to make this my cooking bible!!
Thanks for the cookbook giveaway- perfect for the new year. and helllllo if you use it that much it must be good
pick me!!!
You’re so wonderful to all your readers! I love your blog and lately it’s my first stop for dinner ideas and of course desserts!!!! I made your lemon brown sugar chicken and Baked Beans/Kale over the weekend and LOVED how they turned out!! Thanks!!
I love all your pics and stories!
Actually, I’m starting college next fall and one of my personal resolutions for the new year is to learn how to cook– I don’t even know how to turn on a stove! All of your adventures in food are great encouragement and I would love to have this to learn by!
Jenna, when I first started reading your blog, you inspired me to feed my body well. You now inspire me to feed my soul. I think you are an amazing inspiration.
I would love a copy of your favorite cookbook! I have the hardest time picking out cookbooks and often end up with ones that aren’t that useful!
Merry Christmas Jenna! Hope your holidays are blessed!!! Have a Happy New Year too!!!
I would LOVE to see the cookbook that inspires all of your yummy kitchen creations!!
i heart all cookbooks!
I love your blog and the new direction you are taking!
I’ve been wanting this cookbook since you’ve mentioned it! Is this my chance?
If not, I’ll probably end up purchasing it myself, hehe!
I love your blog, you inspire me in the way you cook, live and love. I would love to cook like you! If only my fiance would eat anything that resembles a vegetable.
I LOVE cookbooks, and have been dying to check this one out!
oh but you must pick me. i’ve been converted from raw vegan to eating sausages and sugar cookies made with eggs and butter and white flour after the new direction of your blog.
I’ve always wanted this cookbook!!!
Ohmygoodness, Jenna! You are such a sweet girl. I found your blog about a month ago, and am completely addicted. Merry Christmas!
I’d love to try this cookbook! Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway, Jenna!
This would be a challenging cookbook for me as I consider myself a very good cook, but nowhere near gourmet.
Merry Christmas!
Hey, Jenna! I love cookbooks SO much! Thanks for the chance to win it :]
i’ve looked lustfully at this cookbook so many times on amazon.
glad you are getting yourself a new copy- i bet dexter has done some damage to it with his recent shenanigans!
Ooh, I’ve wanted this one for awhile! Great giveaway!
I love this blog and how completely honest you are with your readers! Thank you!
thanks for writing your blog – its a favorite. this cookbook would be amazing!
I love your blog!
that cookbook would be super fun!
your blog is quirky and fun too!
i have won a giveaway before, but this would be killer fun!
*havent won a giveaway!
That would be an awesome Christmas gift for myself lol – I have drooled over many of your creations that have come out of that cookbook!!
Your blog is just amazing and the cookbook would put the icing on the cake! Ha! Would love it.
aghh I want this book so badly! It’s on my list of wanted cookbooks
I would die for this! Just kidding, but that would be awesome if I was picked!
yay for cookbook giveaways
Oh yes please!!
Love your blog Jenna and would LOVE this cookbook!
I would love to get this Cookbook….I sadly own only a lonesome two!
A favorite cookbook is a truly beautiful gift. Cookbooks and recipes are very personal. Sharing them with someone else is the ultimate gift. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
It’s so refreshing to hear that you prefer sweets and yoga to a serious training plan at this point in your life. I live this way too, and I can still fit in my favorite Citizens jeans that I wore when I was running a few times a week!
Aww, this is so sweet of you, Jenna! I’d love to try out recipes from this cookbook! Thanks for the opportunity, and happy holidays
Whew 855 comments before me! I know my chances are slim to none, but I’ll throw my name in nonetheless. I’d love a new cookbook
Yes, please! What an awesome early Christmas present!
Now this is a book that should be on everyone’s coffee table.
I would love this! Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
Oooh! I just love cookbooks. Thank you for everything that you share with us
I’d love to try out this cookbook. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I would love this book! Everytime you write about it I wish I owned it too
me! me!
Merry Christmas Jenna!
I’m 862 or something. Everyone loves you. I’m a cookbook junkie and I can’t believe I don’t have this cookbook.
Daaaang there are a lot of comments on this post. Great giveaway – keep doing what you’re doing!
I would love this cookbook! I spent way too long looking at cookbooks in a bookstore yesterday while I was supposed to be Christmas shopping for others.
Like you, I love to curl up with a cookbook! I know how much you love this one, so this would be such a treat!
I would love such a classic cookbook as this. Thank you for sharing, and have a merry Christmas!
Yay what a wonderful giveaway. My mom and I would LOVE to make recipes in the new year from this book
I’m extremely thrilled to know I am not the only one who started to dislike the eliptical and eat more cookies! I also still practice yoga. I would love to win this cookbook. I hope I would get as much use from it as you do! If i don’t win, I’ll probably definitely go purchase it myself! Love your blog!
Looking forward to all your adventures in life and in baking in the New Year!
I’ve been following your blog for the past few months and love it! I <3 cookbooks
Oh I’ve always lusted over that book in the store but never bought it! This would be great to have under my Christmas tree.
I’d love my own copy of this cookbook! After your recommendations I’ve been eyeing it at the library but it is just not the same!
Ohhh, that book would make such a great Christmas present! (For myself, of course) Haha
I just wanted to say I’m really loving the new direction you’ve taken your blog in. There no longer seems to be anything forced about it – its like its what it was always meant to be. Congratulations on finding that niche.
I enjoy reading your blog and LOVE your recipes!! I’d love to add this book to my cookbook collection.
It sounds like a fantastic cookbook. What a great giveaway!
I love Ruth Reichls books!!
Thanks for the giveaway! by the way, Jenna, you are awesome for inspiring me to never be afraid to eat dessert!
Fun! Meals are getting boring around here. I need something new to work from!
I love your blog. And Laura Ingalls.
What a fun giveaway! I love cookbooks!
pick me. pick me.
Yes, PLEASE
Merry Christmas!
Jenna,
!!
I have been reading for over 2 years and love how you have evolved overtime in life and on your blog. Your recipes are amazing and you have a beautiful way of writing and can turn a recipe about soup or chocolate cake balls into an amazing story.
My husband wants to thank you for the chicken enchilada recipe. I’ve made it for him several times and now he has even stepped into the chicken and made the dish, simply a miracle
Keep on doing what you do, you are awesome
Warmly,
Pam
I have to say that reading your blog is a highlight of my day. It is funny/pretty/and just inspirational. I just recently started my own blog and you have been part of the inspiration behind it.
love cookbooks – I usually only take them out from the library, use them for 4-8 weeks and then return them. I would love to cook from a cookbook that I could KEEP! What a treat that would be
I’ve heard great things about this book, would love a copy!
before reading this giveaway post i read your “why i quit the gym” post, and i couldn’t agree more! i just ran my first half marathon and it seems that runs to train for it seemed so mentally painful. now i just do what i want, when i want, in the way of working out and it’s so much more enjoyable! i love the changes you’ve made to your blog..except the drool left on my keyboard everyday…
I am trying to start a cookbook collection. I would love to start with this!!
Love reading your blog! Definitely a fan of all the food recipes you have been posting now too!
I always wanted to have a copy of this book.
haha i mean pick me!!!
I’ve been dying to get my hands on a copy since you refer to it a lot.
Merry Christmas!
I would love to cook alll the recipes you have from Gourmet!! My mom suscribes to the magazine and they have the best recipes for parties!
ahh i would love to FINALLY see what this cookbook is all about
Merry Christmas Jenna!
Love.Your.Blog.
Great blog! Keep going.
I would LOVE this cookbook!
I love your blog. I’m new to the baking and blogging world, and I’d love this book for new recipe inspiration!
pick me, please!! i have 3 kids: ages 6, 3, and 1. my weekly date night w/ my husband involves cooking a fun, new appetizer and dinner together and a glass or two (sometimes three
of wine. would love some new recipes!!!
I love cookbooks and this sounds like a great one to add to my collection! Thanks for all the delicious recipes recently! I made your butternut squash lentil soup and your chana masala this week. Mmm.
love food. love cookbooks. love your blog.
Amazing cookbook and I would love love love to cook n’ bake with it!
Thanks Jenna; Happy Holidays!
I’m going to confess that I have your blog as one of my home pages. =) I never comment, but I am so curious as to how this cookbook can change my life! Cheers to whoever gets it!
Kudos to your recent post on your personal changes of this blog, your life, and your maturing passions!
I’ve been wanting a chance to try this cookbook
Thanks for your daily inspiration, Jenna, and Merry Christmas!
I read cookbooks and your blog every morning while I cook breakfast. I don’t have this one though
I am dying to make the spritz cookies from this cookbook, but I don’t have a copy! I would love one, so that I can dive into that spritz cookie recipe, as well as many, many others.
Love the changes on your blog. Keep up the great work!
Happy Holidays.
What a treat it would be to win! I have a huge cookbook collection but not this one. Thanks for the contest.
I have always wanted that cookbook! Whenever I flip through it at the book store the recipes seem so delicious, but not TOO complicated.
love the changes you have made in the blog, you are going to go far!
When I looked at the chocolate oranges in trader joe’s today, I thought of you as if you were a friend in real life. Then I remembered that you don’t know me. Oh, the Internet. Pretty crazy. And amazing.
Merry Christmas and hooray for exercising outside the gym!
i’ve had my eye on this book for a while and would love a copy! crossing my fingers
happy holidays, jenna!
I like Ruth’s non fiction books! but have not tried her cookbooks…
I am pretty much a cookbook-a-holic! I would love to win this! Been reading your blog for about 6 mon now and I love it. Merry Christmas!
You can NEVER have too many cookbooks! Although I’ll admit, I normally end up taking recipes from other bloggers sites instead of actual hardcopy books (like your channa masala, a favorite in my house!)
Hope I am not too late. Is it 11pm PST yet?
youre the bomb!
Hiiii! I want that cookbook. I’m also loving everything covered in sprinkles on your blog lately. Thanks!
I have been wanting this!
I totally want to try that cookbook! I need new inspiration as I adore cooking and am definitely ready to try new things!
I need to buy the book stat.
You’re awesome Jenna!!!! and a true inspiration to us all
I have only recently found your incredible blog and admire your daily life balance of wellness, activity, and yummy meals. I admire your passion to follow your dreams and pursue what you love!!!! Thank you for being apart of my life each and every day 
An equal thank you to you for writing this blog!! I would love to add this cookbook to my very young collection! And you can even keep the new copy and pass your worn-in copy to me…. I’d probably appreciate that more
! hehe
Confession: I was a longtime reader and dropped ELR a while ago (i know, for shame!) But your recipes have won me back…I love that they are delicious, detailed, and easy to follow. Keep up the great work…I’ll never stray agin!
I love your blog
I want this cookbook so badly, and have ever since you mentioned it on your blog (and every time since then). I would love to have one, and thanks so much for the giveaway!
What a great giveaway!
What a fabulous Christmas giveaway! *fingers crossed* Merry Christmas!
I’d love a copy of this cookbook! It would be the ideal early Christmas present
So glad I saw your post before the deadline!!
LOVE COOKBOOKS!
I have read all of Ruth Reichl’s books but never her cookbooks, I dream about the gourmet cookbook but I dont own it yet, sometimes I go to barnes and noble and read it and smell it. Im not weird I promise.
i would love this! =)
love your blog! hope you have a great holiday!