When Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg published The Flavor Bible three years ago, they gave home cooks the know-how they needed to graduate from by-the-book recipes to assured improvisation. And now with the JBF Award–winning duo’s recent release of The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine (Little, Brown), which is just as thorough and informative as its predecessor, home cooks can now match wine and food with equal aplomb. This essential guide includes a clearly organized list of flavor profiles for more than 250 grapes; a fascinating timeline of the history of wine in America; and valuable tips dispensed by the country’s best sommeliers, like Monkey Bar’s Belinda Chang and Barbara Lynch Gruppo’s Cat Silirie. We have five signed copies of The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine to give away! For a chance to win, simply tell us your favorite food and wine pairing. You can leave your answer in a comment below, in a tweet (use hashtag #jbfgiveaway), or on our Facebook page. We will notify the five lucky winners next week. No purchase necessary. Purchase will not improve chances of winning. Starting at 10:40 A.M EST on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, the James Beard Foundation will invite entries for a chance to win one of five copies of The Food Lover's Guide to Wine via a comment on this blog, a tweet, or a comment on the official James Beard Foundation Facebook page. Entries submitted after 12:00 A.M. on Friday, December 2, 2011, will not be eligible. Only residents who are 21 and older and residing in the 50 United States or the District of Columbia are eligible to enter. Void where prohibited by law. The winners of the sweepstakes will be chosen at random. The James Beard Foundation is not responsible for and will not consider incomplete or incorrect entries, or entries submitted but not received by the James Beard Foundation for any reason, as potential sweepstakes winners. The winners of this sweepstakes will be notified via email, direct message on Twitter, or Facebook message. The individuals replying to these communications will be considered the winners. Claiming of prizes requires communication to the James Beard Foundation within 14 days of being notified, and must be received from the email, Twitter, or Facebook account to which the winner-notification message was sent. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. The James Beard Foundation will randomly select a new winner if the original winner fails to respond. Only one entry per blog comment, Twitter account, or Facebook account will be considered for sweepstakes entry. The prizewinner must supply the James Beard Foundation with his/her legal name, mailing address, birth date, and daytime telephone number in order to claim the prize. The winner may not request substitutions of prize winnings. The winner is solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or fees, and all such additional costs that may be incurred. Neither the James Beard Foundation, the James Beard Foundation sponsors, nor employees of the James Beard Foundation or sponsors may be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of any winners of a prize once winner has taken possession of the product. The James Beard Foundation is not liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with or resulting from any sweepstakes or contest promoted by the James Beard Foundation. Management, employees and families of the James Beard Foundation are prohibited from winning any prizes awarded by the James Beard Foundation.
