This contest is now closed! Winner will be announce soon. Good luck everyone!
Cucina Moderna is a fabulous high quality kitchen store that has graciously agreed to do a giveaway for a fantastic cookbook holder but you need to stop by their store to pick it up, so this giveaway is for my local Nova Scotia readers.
I first fell in love with this store when I stopped by one day and finally found a bench scraper! I had been looking for one forever! From cookware stores to hardware stores… but it was Cucina Moderna that had one. I also picked up some autumn leaf cookie cutters from there for a giveaway last year.
During our move to Nova Scotia my acrylic cookbook holder that my mom had given to me as a present broke! I was heartbroken and after two years of living without one could not take it anymore. I went looking and they just seemed impossible to find! So one day I wrote about my frustration on Twitter and Cucina Moderna wrote me back, telling me they were getting some in the fall. I was so excited! At the time I was using a plate holder with a piece of cardboard to hold my recipes… so sad.
I purchased the Prepara Chef’s Center Cookbook Holder and brought it home. The cookbook holder I had in the past was just an inflexible piece of plastic but this holder is so much more!
There is complete flexibility when it comes to how much this little holder can prop up. It has a moveable backrest that fits into slots allowing for very little or a ton of paper and books to be held quite easily. This backrest can be removed completely so the cookbook holder can lie flat and easily be put away until future use. You even have a pull out tray with a weights and measurements chart which I use on a regular basis.
Here it is just on the second setting holding the book Professional Pastry Chef which is huge! You can actually stack more than one cookbook if you wanted to, it is that flexible.
For magazines and computer printouts of recipes, you are going to have to use a piece of board or a cookbook to support them or they will curl over. I use a large piece of cardboard and stack a ton against it which is just fine with me since I am always working on many different recipes at the same time.
The base does swivel and rotate 360 degrees which is great but often when I have tried to either swivel it or move it the back brace has fallen out and the cookbook holder has collapsed. I do love the weight and measurement chart but from day one it has curled off the little drawer and one day I will have to glue it down permanently. The “blast shield” is big but I was hoping for bigger. I am investing in more and more cookbooks that I want to protect so for the larger cookbooks that leaves a lot of space unprotected.
Despite some issues, I absolutely adore this cookbook holder! It has been my best friend in the kitchen and I love that I can throw so much into it and this little unit can take it. As much as I love that it can be hidden away in a small drawer with ease, I doubt I will ever do so. I can not imagine one day in my kitchen I will not be using this cookbook holder. It is a true foodie treasure! I give it four and a half out of five wooden spoons.
Now I know a lot of you can not participate in the contest but may want to comment so if you are in the HRM and want to participate, all you have to do is leave a comment here with the words, “I’m in!” Make sure there is a way for me to contact you too if you do not have a blog! Please leave your email address so I can contact you if you do not have a blog. Thanks!
Good luck everyone! Contest is open until Friday.
I’m in! 🙂
Alright Lynn, thanks! 🙂 Good luck!
I’m In
I’m in! 🙂
Don’t forget your email address if you don’t have a blog OK? I need to be able to contact you. Thanks everyone so much for entering!
Hi Suzie, LoL, Thanks and I’m in. Nice blog and enjoyed your excitement over your newe blender. LoL
I’m in:)
Sounds very useful:)
I usually place my magazine on top of the kitchen table and ran back and forth. I´m ok with that, need the exercise. 😉 Your way is much cooler. 😀
Hi Susie!
This is my first comment on your blog! It is a strange coincidence that I am reading your blog today, b/c I was baking pumpkin muffins this morning and was thinking ‘I wish I could stand my cookbook up somehow!’ Weird… I have been reading your blog of and on for the past year or so, and have enjoyed it! I am a registered dietitian, so love finding interesting food related blogs! Btw, I currently live near Saint John, NB, but have a twin sister who lives in Dartmouth whom I visit quite regularly! (does that count?) If so, I’m in!
I’m In!!!
Michelle Muir
(902) 471-8577
PS – Suzie the Foodie is by far my FAVOURITE food blogger 🙂
I’m still in!!! jan@imsmeats.com
Paula, that is too funny! Great exercise I am sure. Oh I love it when readers finally comment, wonderful Heidi, thank you! How lucky for you your have a twin in Dartmouth, perfect! Yes, it counts, absolutely! Michelle, you’re awesome, thank you for that!
YAYAYAY!!
This is just the thing I need to prevent every single cook book and food magazine I own from getting something spilled on it.
Thanks for the rad post 🙂
Kristine
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Now I have another reason to wish I was in Nova Scotia 🙂
Darn I live as we say “west of the Mississippi”
Coffee is on.
I AM IN!
oh and my email address is sherisse dot doucette at gmail dot com 🙂
I’m in!
I’m in! jmorse_hfx at yahoo dot ca
I’m in! Email address is laurapeniston @gmail.com (without the spaces)
If I undertake to pay the shipping C.O.D. Can I enter too ?? Right up my alley for another Kitchen Toy !!!
Looks like a great product. I’m in