Giveaway: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

I have another great giveaway for you!!

Hachette Book Group is again generously giving 5 copies of their latest food-related release to my readers (due out April 8th.). It's part autobiography, part cookbook. The deadline for the giveaway is April 30, 2009 so you have a full month to enter, and to tell everybody about this great new book and giveaway. Here's what the publisher is saying about it:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.

From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat.

Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistible culinary creations.

Giulia Melucci was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY where she still lives, but in a more fashionable neighborhood. She is the former VP of PR for Harper's Magazine, and previously worked at Spy Magazine, Atlantic Monthly Press, Viking, Dutton and Scribner. Visit her website at http://www.ilovedilostimadespaghetti.com.

Title: I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI

Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY (with recipes!)

Format: HARDCOVER BOOK

Publisher: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

Publish Date: 4/8/2009

US/Can Price: $23.99/$26.99

ISBN: 9780446534420

Pages: 288

Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

HERE'S HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

• Leave a comment telling me why you want this book, other than because it's free;
• If you are a regular or semi-regular commenter (you know who you are :-))leave a second comment for another chance;
• If you follow me through Blogger Follower or through Twitter, leave a comment and you'll get another chance;
• If you blog about this giveaway, leave the link in a comment for yet another chance;
• If you are a participant in my Vintage Recipe Thursday carnival, leave another comment for one more chance;
• If you participate in the Joy For Chocolate Roundup on April 20th, leave a comment for another chance to win a great foodie book!

THAT'S UP TO 6 CHANCES TO WIN!!

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I have been asked in comments how you can follow me.
It is very easy!
Blogger has a new feature at the very top of each blog where you can just click FOLLOW. Or you can use Twitter to follow too.
I want everyone to be able to participate
and by popular request,
I have tried to give you lots of chances to win.

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Related Post on Joy Of Desserts:
Author Giulia Melucci invites us
to her New York Apartment.
Watch the video!

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