Third Coast Cuisine

America loves cookbooks.  We can’t get enough of them.  As many as 18,000 of them are published each year.  Many people treat the recipes like algebraical formulas, never a deviation.  Others, like myself, rarely cook by a recipe at all but use cookbooks for inspiration.

But something that none of us who produce cookbooks have ever asked those who consume them is what exactly would you like to see in a cookbook?  Is there a certain format you prefer?  How about nutritional information, is that important?  What is it you wish every cookbook included?  Clearly pictures are something that everyone has expressed a desire for – you like food porn, we get it – but what else?  Help us build the perfect cookbook.

Enter to win not one cookbook, not two cookbooks but three cookbooks!  The winner (chosen at random) will receive one copy each of Amigeauxs: Mexican/Creole Fusion Cuisine, Third Coast Cuisine – Recipes from the Gulf of Mexico (both by Chef Stuart Reb Donald) and Substitute Yourself Skinny (by Susan Irby, the Bikini Chef), three cookbooks total.