CHALLENGE: Foodie's Reading Challenge
Hosted by Joyfully Retired, the object of this challenge is, of course, to read food books. A food book is classified as a cookbook, a fictional story that has food as a major part of the story, a memoir or bio surrounding food, or any non-fiction book about food preparation or the food industry or diet guide, etc.
Here’s how it works:
1. Decide how many food books you want to read in 2011 and choose your level of reading. Keep in mind this is a challenge – a throw-down. Go a bit beyond what you think you can really do. Levels:
3. As you read each book for the challenge, go back to the foodie challenge blog and let them know.
Guidelines:
There will be a prize at the end of each quarter, using random.org.
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I'm going to shoot for the Epicurean of 7-9 books. Some of the books on my list for this challenge are:
Here’s how it works:
1. Decide how many food books you want to read in 2011 and choose your level of reading. Keep in mind this is a challenge – a throw-down. Go a bit beyond what you think you can really do. Levels:
- Nibbler: 1 to 3 books
- Bon Vivant: 4 to 6 books
- Epicurean: 7 to 9 books
- Gourmet: 10 to 12
- Glutton: More than 12
3. As you read each book for the challenge, go back to the foodie challenge blog and let them know.
Guidelines:
- You don’t need a pre-selected list of books.
- Crossing over with other challenges is fine.
- Any book format is allowed (print, audio, ebook)
There will be a prize at the end of each quarter, using random.org.
Sign up Here
I'm going to shoot for the Epicurean of 7-9 books. Some of the books on my list for this challenge are:
- Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci
- The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8 Lee
- A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
- Fit for Life by Harvey Diamond
- The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone
- Fannie's Last Supper by Christopher Kimball
- Pure Flavor: 125 All-American Recipes from the Pacific Northwest by Kurt Beecher Dammeier