Monica Bhide Dear Reader: Today you have a chance to enter to win my of my most favorite cookbooks and, as a bonus, will receive my new book, A Life of Spice, as well!
I have blogged and talked about how much my entire family just loves Andrea Nguyen’s The Banh Mi Handbook: Recipes for Crazy-Delicious Vietnamese Sandwiches The recipes are fantastic, easy to make and make a regular appearance at our dinner table, at least once a week!
Here are the books you will receive:
About Andrea Nguyen: “Andrea Nguyen is an author, food writer, and cooking teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Vietnam, she came to the United States at the age of six. Her first book publication was “Trip to Freedom,” a short children’s book on how her family came to America. Andrea’s food writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Sunset and Saveur magazine, where she is also a contributing editor.” reprinted from Amazon. Andrea’s books have been nominated for various awards. They sell out just as soon as they are listed! She is pretty amazing!
In order to enter, here is what you need to do – (no purchase necessary) –
1. Follow me on FB and/or Twitter. If you are already following me – THANK YOU!
2. Follow Andrea. If you are already following her – YOU ROCK!
3. Help us spread the word about this giveaway – any way you choose – tell friends!
4. Leave a comment here and tell us why YOU should win!
I will pick a winner on May 14th, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Rules –
1. US residents only. NO P.O.Box please
2. One winner will be selected at random. If you win and do not respond (within a week of) when I contact you, I will choose a different winner.
3. I will ship you both books by media mail.
4. No purchase needed to enter.
PLEASE NOTE – I have purchased these books myself. No publisher or publicist or author has paid for these copies.
I love Vietnamese cuisine. The noodles, soup everything I have tried is just so tasty and flavorful! Interestingly though I have never tried Vietnamese sandwich! It will be great to win this book which will not only help me with the recipe of sandwiches, but I’ll also learn about the Vietnamese food culture!
You are the winner!! Please email me so I can send you both the books! I hope you will enjoy them!
I love to cook Southeast Asian and Indian food. I am trying to spread out from the Thai cooking I mostly
I’ve been trying to learn more about Asian cooking. Both of these books sound perfect!
Just saw this and want to learn how to cook yummy dishes!
Both of these books are on the top of my wish list! so winning would be a double rainbow!
I am viet and love viet food as well as indian cuisine, I need to learn how to make the delicious dishes to pass on to future generations. I am pleased these more ‘exotic’ flavors are being embraced in the US. Growing up in the Midwest over 30 years ago, I did not imagine one day things like banh mi and pho would be part of the mainstream dialogue 🙂
I follow you on facebook and will share your information on there. Please pick me!
I had these vietnamese sandwiches for the first time when you made them over thanksgiving. They were fabulous. I would love to learn to make them and include them in our menus. The kids loved them too!
I love to try new recipes. So this book will be a great help
I’d like to win the Bahn Mi Handbook because my husband and I used to live in the heart of Little Saigon in Westminster, CA. We love and enjoyed Vietnamese cuisine every day, sometimes twice a day. Now we reside in Phoenix, AZ where Vietnamese food is not as readily available, unless you’re prepared to drive quite a bit. We miss it! I’m also always looking for ideas for lunch for my husband and kids, so owning this book would be awesome!????????
I saw the rave reviews of your book. Wishing you much success. I cook food from all over the world, including Indian and Vietnamese recipes. I have yet to make a decent banh mi, though 😉
I follow you on all social media and same with Andrea. I enjoy her recipes and read her posts, follow her on nearly all her platforms. Best of all, how can I resist Bahn Mi ?! Thanks and hope I win 🙂
growing up in America with a American Father and a Vietnamese Mother. My mom’s culture is often ignored.. Even though she raised us on the typical “Americanized” Vietnamese food. I would love to share some of these Recipes with her. The foods of different cultures tells the story of their people. I have a young daughter( 75% Viet and 25% Caucasian) who will be raised with an appreciation for both cultures. I would love to win this….
At the age of ten I was taught to be afraid of food because any food I put in my mouth would make me fat. In the last year I decided that food wasn’t my enemy, it was the words breathed into me. For the first time I look at food as my friend. I am cooking meals nationally and internationally to experience other cultures, but more importantly, to allow my taste buds to soak in what is has missed for far to long. The love of food!
i have made a roast duck Bahn Mie and want to learn more.
As much as a foodie that I am, this is one genre of food I haven’t explored. Would love to have the book to learn about the food and flavors. It would be the first cooking and tasting on my very own.
I try to learn cooking mostly from books and I love cooking Asian in addition to several other cuisines. However, I have not tried the Vietnamese yet and If I win this book(hoping I win with the little luck that I have) that would be a start to my learning to cook Vietnamese cuisine.
Thank you so much to everyone who participated. We picked a random winner and it is Zest And Leisure. Please email me your information so that I can get the book out to you
Thank you! I dropped you an email with my address 🙂