KitchenGirl's Favorite Things Giveaway!!!

No, I'm not Oprah... but this *is* my version of her "favorite things" giveaway. The premise is simple: I have my favorite food related items, things *I* think are SO wonderful that I think everyone should try them. So, I will share these things with my readers from time to time. All YOU have to do is enter the contest by leaving a comment with a valid email address and be willing to supply me with a mailing address where I can send the loot. The things I giveaway each month will change. It might be a book by a favorite foodie author, it might be a foodie product or gadget... who knows! All I can say, is whatever it is, it will be something I personally endorse, use and enjoy.

This month:


The review as written on the Amazon.com site:
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Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it."

So, here's what I need you to do to enter:
Comment on this entry with:
1. Your valid e-mail address
2. Your name (your online pseudonym is fine)
3. Tell me your favorite food.

That's it! Easy peas-y! Simple as pie!

Get your comment entry in by 7/16/08 11:59 PM EST. I will pick a random winner on 7/17/08 and will announce it here.