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Dear Reader,
Today I've invited best selling author Debbie Macomber to write a guest column, and in the spirit of the season, she is giving away five copies of her new book DEBBIE MACOMBER'S CHRISTMAS COOKBOOK. Enjoy Debbie's column (below) and to enter her giveaway send an email to: Responses@DebbieMacomber.com You can visit her website at: www.DebbieMacomber.com
Take it away, Debbie...
COOKBOOKS GONE WILD
There are those of us who read a cookbook with the same fascination as we do great works of fiction. I happen to be one of them. My kitchen shelves are filled with cookbooks.
My fascination with reading cookbooks started at an early age. Every holiday my mother would take out, with great ceremony, a brown cardboard box filled with recipes handed down to her from her mother. I would help mom cook, and if I was especially good she would let me read her recipe cards. Eventually I believe we cooked or baked every dish in her file together. My favorite memories of my mother and me all center around the kitchen.
Later, while in high school, I started my own recipe file, a green tin box that I still own along with my mother's brown cardboard version. My first official cookbook came from Betty Crocker, a wedding shower gift, and that was just the start. I lined my kitchen countertops with books by the Galloping Gourmet, the Frugal Gourmet and Julia Child, plus many more, until my husband suggested I might leave space for a few helpful appliances so I could put those cookbooks to good use!
After I started selling my novels, I compiled my favorite recipes to give as a bonus gift to booksellers and my faithful readers. It seems those of us who enjoy reading, enjoy cooking, too, because my recipe sharing became immensely popular.
The Cedar Cove series led me to the tipping point when it came to my recipe sharing. One mention of Peggy Beldon's blueberry muffins in one of the books, and my office was swamped with mail. Literally hundreds of my readers asked for the recipe. But that paled in comparison to Teri Polgar's amazing macaroni and cheese. That was when I knew that while I enjoy my fiction career, I had more to share...and that was my love of creating delectable meals for my family and friends.
I decided it was time to create my own cookbook. Okay, I admit I've never been to culinary school, but I forged ahead undeterred. The result was DEBBIE MACOMBER'S CEDAR COVE COOKBOOK, which proved to be so popular that this year I've created a second, this one titled DEBBIE MACOMBER'S CHRISTMAS COOKBOOK. It would make a terrific gift to those who enjoy reading...fiction or cookbooks. And Suzanne's cookbook MUFFINS AND MAYHEM would make a dandy gift as well!
Debbie Macomber
About Debbie
Whether Debbie is in her home in Port Orchard, Washington, or enjoying some time in her winter home in Florida, if she isn't at her computer you'll most likely find her in the kitchen. A #1 New York Times bestseller of women's fiction, Debbie writes about characters who ultimately wind up doing what she does--welcoming friends and family alike into her kitchens. This holiday season Debbie's new books include the finale in her Cedar Cove series, 1225 CHRISTMAS TREE LANE, and DEBBIE MACOMBER'S CHRISTMAS COOKBOOK. On the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, Hallmark Channel will premiere her third movie for them, TRADING CHRISTMAS, which is based on an early book titled WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES.
* This month's Penguin Classics book is PATHS OF GLORY by Humphrey Cobb. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin totebag. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/November11Classics
AUTHORBUZZ: Meet author Sabrina Jeffries...
(Fiction) TO WED A WILD LORD, the fourth novel in my The Hellions of Halstead Hall series. Since losing his parents as a child, Lord Gabriel Sharpe has courted danger, especially perilous horse races. Did he cause his best friend Roger's death on a treacherous course years earlier? Roger's sister, Virginia, convinced Gabe essentially killed her brother, challenges the wild lord to their own death-defying race--which he accepts on the grounds that winning will grant him the right to court her.
Go to: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader Click on my book to read more and please send an email. I'd love to hear from you.--Author Sabrina Jeffries
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