Today I can’t be any more excited to partner with my good friend, Cynthia from Two Red Bowls, to give away her beautiful cookbook titled ‘A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures’ to 3 lucky winners!
{2018 Holiday Giveaway Series} Looking for an inspiring cookbook that you’ll not only use in the kitchen but also read in bed before falling asleep? You’ll love ‘A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures’ by Cynthia Chen McTernan who is behind the lovely, heartwarming blog – Two Red Bowls.
Enter to win this giveaway now! A Common Table will soon be one of your beloved cookbooks.
In A Common Table, Cynthia shares more than 80 Asian-inspired, modern recipes that marry food from her Chinese roots, Southern upbringing, and Korean mother-in-law’s table. The book chronicles Cynthia’s story alongside the recipes she and her family eat every day—beginning when she met her husband at law school and ate out of two battered red bowls, through the first years of her legal career in New York, to when she moved to Los Angeles to start a family.
What you’ll love about the ‘A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures’:
Filled with beautiful photographs, powerful story-telling, and gorgeous food, A Common Table is a cookbook you want to devour over and over again. You’ll find recipes that celebrate both the commonalities and the diversity of cultures: from Korean-inspired take on Hawaiian poke, peanut butter mochi cake, and gochujang eggs in purgatory.
Not only the recipes will make your mouth water, but you’d also enjoy the engaging story behind each recipe. Cynthia also makes them relatable, avoiding hard-to-find ingredients or equipment, and breaking down how to bring Asian flavors home into your own kitchen.
Above all, she believes that food can bring us together around the same table, no matter where we are from.
About Cynthia Chen McTernan:
Cynthia Chen McTernan is a lawyer and the self-taught home cook and photographer behind Two Red Bowls, winner of the 2015 Saveur Blog Award for Most Delicious Food. She has been featured in Food & Wine, Saveur, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, and Huffington Post, and has collaborated with West Elm, Crate & Barrel, King Arthur Flour, Food52, Urban Outfitters, and more. Cynthia graduated from Harvard Law School in 2013 and spent three years at a law firm in Manhattan before moving to Los Angeles, California, where she continues to practice law—when not cooking—and where she lives with her husband, the patient taste-tester and the original owner of the two red bowls, and their baby, Luke.
GIVEAWAY RULES:
Please Note: Your email for the comment entry has to match with your email address in my Email Newsletter Subscription mailing list.
This giveaway contest closes on Monday, December 17, at 12 p.m. PST and is open to US residents only. Must be 18+ to win and enter.
Three (3) winners will be selected via Pick Giveaway Winner Plugin and contacted via email, so please include a valid email address in the email address entry box (please double check your spelling!).
The winners are required to respond within 36 hours to claim the prize.
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This giveaway is sponsored by Two Red Bowls.
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I would love this cookbook! I just attended a panel discussion on multi-culturalism and this cookbook definitely would be along the same lines.
Me me me! Have followed you for years!
looks fantastic!
This cookbook looks amazing! I love the Two Red Bowls blog.
Pick mee!! I have been eyeing this book since its release!!
I just found your channel last night, while looking for any info on season 2 of Shinya Shokudo. I subscribed to your youtube channel and happy I found your website. I just started using my instantpot, I bought for myself on black Friday. so I am also looking forward to trying some of your recipes for that. The food from the cookbook looks amazing.
I would love this cookbook and cook up a storm!
Want this cookbook!
I’m so excited!
Yesss this cookbook is on my Christmas wishlist!!
I think I might’ve typed my email wrong in my last comment so commenting again. Dying to get this book for Christmas.
Woo! Would love to get my hands on one if these!
love this cookbook!!
I love your midnight diner series!
Love both your recipes, and Cynthia’s!
Oh yes please!!
I’m super excited for this cookbook. I hope I win to learn more about my roots.
I need to get this book soon! Looks so great
Would love to win a copy of this cookbook!
The images are so pretty. It’s been awhile since I read a cookbook before falling asleep. That was something I loved to do even before I learned to cook. Nowadays, most of my cookbooks are just recipes without stories. I know I’d enjoy this one.
This cookbook a on my Christmas list!
I’ve seen several recipes made from this cookbook and they all look amazing!
I love the Two Red Bowls blog and would love to win a copy of Cynthia’s cookbook! 😊❤️
My two favorites partnering up!!!
I’ve seen only bits of this cookbook and I am obsessed!
Thank you for all your videos and recipes!
This looks like an excellent cookbook! Love the idea of sharing recipes from all over the world!
I bet this has some unique recipes in it! Thanks for the chance to win it!
I’ve been so excited to get my hands on this book! So happy to hear how well it’s been doing.
Cool! Would love to include this book in my collection.
Would love this cookbook! Love cooking asian food~
As an American Asian, I’m always looking to finesse my cooking in a way that honors my traditional heritage. This book seems to be just what I need to learn from and to achieve this goal.
I’ve seen so many good things about this book I can’t wait to check it out!!
I would LOVE to win A Common Table cookbook! I currently have it checked out from the library and I’d love to try so many of the recipes! I love reading the stories behind the recipes too. My friend Ruth was also one of her recipe testers. Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! Such a wonderful cookbook!
I love Cynthia at Two Red Bowls! I’d love to have the chance to win her book 🙂
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Gotta get on my cooking game!
love it when other cookbooks and blogs are mentioned. This look lovely!
I’d love to learn how to cook this food. Fingers crossed!
Always enjoy your post. Sometimes l make the easier ones. Otherwise cook vicariously through your videos. 🙂 also signed up.
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Crossing my fingers! The book looks great. Thanks!
SO interested in this cookbook and I saw @iamfoodblog contributed!!! Pick Me!!
What a great gift to myself!!!
Would love to have this cook book! 🙂
I am learning how to cook, so I love your blog and videos! Thank you for everything you’ve shared~ I make Katsudon on a regular basis now from your recipe. ^.^
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I would love this cookbook
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My husband subscribed to you before I did hahaha. Hello from Malaysia!!!
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Wohooo I love the design of this book and hope to win to try my hand at asian cuisines! <3<3<3 Love you, JustOneCookbook !
-Linda
Pictures are beautiful and comforting.
Looks amazing! I love finding new books! Thanks for the chance to win!
Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly find any more amazing cookbooks this one comes along – thanks for introducing it to your readers Nami!
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Yes, I need this!
This looks like an amazing cookbook! The mix of recipes from a variety of cultures and how they could work together is fascinating. (Confessions of a cookbook junkie.)
The food looks delicious!
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My friend introduced me to this website a while back, and I’ve loved learning new tips and tricks to add to my cooking!
I’m not a US resident but would love to buy it for my mom who lives in California. Please let me know how to get it.
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I love your blog and recipes and will definitely be trying the Hayashi Rice. I also love Two Red Bowls and have been reading the blog and recipes for quite some time now. I would be honored to win the cookbook!
Subscribed! Love you and Cynthia :)))
As a college student who loves to cook with her friends, I love sharing budget-friendly, (plant-based) Asian-inspired dishes with them!
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My coffee table books are literally cookbooks. Love to have these recipes to add to my collection. <3
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Looks like another great giveaway Nami. The photos made my mouth water!
Looks like a fun book!
Would love to try some of her recipes. Got hungry just looking at the cover.
How exciting to see some new recipes.
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Always love to visit your site for some cooking inspiration when I’m out of idea on what to make (which is pretty often)
Great post like always!!
Sounds like a great cookbook!
Wish I could enter for the oishisoo choco matcha Luphia. Demo, daijyoobu desu!
Would love this cookbook! Looks amazing(:
That sounds like an amazing cookbook – and if I’m not lucky enough to win a copy, it’s definitely going on my shopping list. Thanks for sharing this!
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What a delicious looking book! Would love to add it to my collection.
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Sounds like a wonderful cookbook. Thanks for the chance.
Love your posts and recipies! Excited for this 🙂
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Would love a copy and share with others.
Would love to win “A Common Table” and add it to my cookbook library.
I really, really, need your cookbook! I enjoy both travel tips as well as recipes .
Love your blog.
“A Common Table” cookbook sounds like just what I have been looking for. You see- my younger sister was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic bile duct cancer and losing weight. Taking in food is a challenge. If the food I cook looks good and what she formerly enjoyed then she will eat a little. She likes Korean food and Hawaiian poke so combined sounds nutritious & maybe to her liking. Peanut butter is a staple (usually in protein shakes) and as a mochi cake hopefully a winner. I am screening for a liver transplant myself. Cooking classes are a passion for me but they can be expensive. We had to stop working and money is tight. Even if I did not win this book I would buy it.
By the way Nami- I found out about the Nozomi Project through you and love to gift their jewelry. I love your heart as you frequently donate partial proceeds to great causes!
There are so… many things we are grateful for in life. The most precious is the eternal life with Jesus! He makes the present hopeful & beautiful in every situation.
God bless you, family and readers! And Cynthia Chen McTernan too!
I recently found your website and am really enjoying all the quality content. Tonight I’m making Kare Chicken. Thanks for making Japanese cooking so accessible. I’m in Tennessee and have a fantastic asian grocery nearby so I’m learning and making a lot of new and delicious food.
I would LOVE to add this cookbook to my growing collection. My husband and I try to cook at least one recipe from another country every week, and when we find a real winner, we plan to share it with company. Thank you for introducing us to this book.
I can’t wait to try the roasted cauliflower kale salad! Such yummy looking dishes,
I can’t wait to read this!!
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Love it!
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That cookbook looks wonderful! I love trying new recipes. 🙂
I already subscribe tovyiur newsletter. I love your recipes and blog! I also follow Two Red Bowls and love their recipes. Would be honored to win cookbook. Thanks for the giveawsy!
I have sooooo enjoyed your site. I first visited Japn in 1983 when I studied ceramics in Imbe . Have been back twice . We hope to go once again in the future.
This food looks delicious!
Sounds like a wonderful cookbook.
I’m already subscribed to your newsletter. I’ve been eyeing Cynthia’s book; i love how it integrates and unifies elements of different cultures to create inspiring dishes. Would be great to pore over it!
Thank you so much for sharing tips and recipes with us all. You are a blessing!
I enjoy learning about Japanese cooking.
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What a great cookbook! I am Korean and my husband Japanese, so we always cook a combination of our cuisines. I would love to try the recipes in this book. Hoping to win one! 🤞🏻
I would like to enter please! This looks great!
I love your recipes!