Did you love last week's Double Holiday Goodness Giveaway? Well, I have another Double Holiday Goodness Giveaway for you today! This one is with SPOON and it's all about BOOKS!
Get yourself in the running for these 2 fabulous sets of craft and cook books!
This first Craftside set includes:
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh
Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals by Carla Sonheim
Vegan Food Gifts by Joni Marie Newman
The Textile Artist's Studio Handbook by Visnja Popovic and Owyn Ruck
Book Art Studio Handbook by Stacie Dolin and Amy Lapidow
The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet by Margaret Hubert
The Complete Photo Guide to Beading by Robin Atkins
Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions by Brian J. Robb
Do you consider cooking a craft? If so, do you consider yourself a "foodie"? Do you get your craft inspiration from sources that cover both crafts and feature recipes?
The SPOON set of books includes:
Making Artisan Pasta by Aliza Green
The Sweet Book of Candy Making by Elizabeth LaBau
How to Make Stuffed Animals by Sian Keegan
The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating by Autumn Carpenter
Extreme Brewing: A Deluxe Edition with 14 New Homebrew Recipes by Sam Calgione
Shake, Stir, Pour: Fresh Homegrown Cocktails by Katie Loeb
How to Build a Better Pie by Millicent Souris
The Joy of Foraging by Gary Lincoff
Good luck!!!
I do think some cooking such as cake decorating, specialty items are a craft but no I am not a foodie, I just love to eat.
Posted by: jennifer willis | December 05, 2012 at 03:57 PM
Some cooking does seem like a craft, baking, charcuterie, canning, etc. I actually love to cook and craft, so I don't mind at all if they intersect.
Posted by: Janel Gradowski | December 05, 2012 at 04:28 PM
Yes, cooking is a craft and I am definitely a "foodie". Feel they can go hand-in-hand an feed off each other!
Posted by: Norma K. Bott | December 05, 2012 at 05:23 PM
i think cooking is crafty, especially if you use basic techniques and knowledge to branch off and do your own thing. i like using recipes as guidelines but add and subtract ingredients to suit my taste. and many crafty elements can be used when decorating and arranging foods.
Posted by: julie m | December 05, 2012 at 07:49 PM
Oh my goodness, of course I think cooking is a craft. Taking those raw ingredients and combining them in your own special way to produce something one of a kind is just like starting with a ball of yarn and creating a scarf or mitts or a wall hanging. I don't know if I am a foodie or not, but I know I love food and read blogs that feature arts and food!
Julie Andrea
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Posted by: Julie Andrea | December 05, 2012 at 11:32 PM
I don't think of myself as a foodie, but I definitely believe cooking is a craft--maybe not always the way I do it. I like blogs that find a way to combine art and food.
Posted by: Darlene | December 06, 2012 at 04:14 AM
Yes, I think it is a craft. A craft that I am not good at. Thank goodness my husband is. His favorite inspiration is the cooking channel.
Posted by: Mary Mac | December 06, 2012 at 06:06 AM
Yes, it's a craft and an art. I love to read cookbooks just for fun. I'm also addicted to cooking blogs. I've not gotten craft inspiration from recipes but I have used recipes from novels.
Posted by: NanW | December 06, 2012 at 07:16 AM
I don't cook but I do bake. I love to bake weird things. I would consider it a craft as some are great cooking and baking artists.
Posted by: Denise Royal | December 06, 2012 at 07:49 AM
Cooking is a craft! I craft and I also cook. I went to culinary school and I also have a blog called The Epicurean Crafter...where I blog about my crafts...food and otherwise.
Posted by: Donna O'Neil | December 06, 2012 at 09:58 AM
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Posted by: Donna O'Neil | December 06, 2012 at 09:59 AM
Yes cooking is a craft if you take your time and put yourself into it.
Posted by: Kathrynn | December 06, 2012 at 10:07 AM
I most definitely think of cooking as a craft. I also think I'm more of foodie-lite...I know more then a person should about different kinds of butter, but sometimes when people get too picky about the carbon footprint of kale I get prickly. And finally, I have hundreds of blogs in my reader list and they're pretty evenly split between food and non-food type crafts. I feel like inspiration can come from anywhere and anything.
Posted by: Anna | December 06, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I consider cooking a craft when it incorporates the decorative arts, such as used in desserts & those wonderful cooking competitions. I don't consider canning, curing, breadmaking (just to list three examples) a craft, but a skill. While I don't consider myself a foodie, I am working on improving my skills in canning & preserving.
Posted by: jonquil | December 06, 2012 at 10:16 AM
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Posted by: jonquil | December 06, 2012 at 10:17 AM
You know, I never really thought of cooking as a craft, but I can see how it could be. Especially things like cookie and cake decorating or creating new recipes. I don't think I'm really a foodie - I'm not adventuresome enough and have a tendency to cook and eat the same things over and over.
Posted by: Sheila | December 06, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Some cooking is like arts and crafts - the decorating and plating side. There is a *craft* invovled in cooking but it's different. That being said, I super appreciate those kinds of people but I'm not a huge foodie! I do love to try things, though, and am inspired by cultures for both food and crafts.
Posted by: Anna | December 06, 2012 at 10:51 AM
cooking is definitely a craft but I'm not a foodie
Posted by: Nikki | December 06, 2012 at 12:28 PM
cooking is a craft i am not a foodie,yes we look at a lot of edible craft blogs to get new ideas
Posted by: Barb | December 06, 2012 at 12:46 PM
I don't consider cooking a craft. I consider baking and decorating a craft.
Posted by: Kristin | December 06, 2012 at 02:25 PM
Yes cooking is a craft as much as any are. Yes who isn't (or wants to be) a foodie. I get inspiration from online blogs and websites because many bookstores in my area have gone out of business!
Posted by: Kristal h L | December 06, 2012 at 02:56 PM
Yes, cooking can be a craft.
But baking/cake decorating is an art. I get ideas from both blogs and cookbooks(especially older ones).I don't think of myself a foodie.
Posted by: Melanie | December 06, 2012 at 05:09 PM
cooking can definitely be a craft.i am definitley a foodie when it comes to quite a few things.and i do get from sites that cover both.
Posted by: katy | December 06, 2012 at 07:18 PM
Food is abolutely a craft - and inspiration can come from anywhere!!! It is amazing what people are coming up with to present things as mundane as PBJ in a new and visually fun way.
Posted by: Regina | December 06, 2012 at 07:49 PM
I think that cooking works the same area in your brain as crafting- you sort of get into that 'zone' where you forget about time and stresses and just have fun (until you have to do the dishes......Most of the blogs that I follow are craft blogs and cooking blogs- or ones with a mix of both. They provide so much inspiration!l
Posted by: lucia | December 06, 2012 at 10:42 PM