1. How it works: Cookbooker invites you to take part in an unique project - to collaboratively cook the recipes from a single cookbook. The current cookbook challenge is for Rose Levy Berenbaum's The Pie and Pastry Bible. To participate, submit reviews of your completed recipes from the challenge book. All reviews and photographs must be original to you. Submit as few or as many reviews as you like.
2. How to participate: Beginning at 12:01am (PST) November 11th through 11:59pm (PST) December 26th, 2011, enter by writing a review of one or more recipes from the challenge cookbook at www.cookbooker.com. Participants must register for a member account with Cookbooker in order to submit reviews and photographs to the site. All reviews are subject to the website terms of service, published at www.cookbooker.com/tos.php. Reviews submitted by members prior to the start of the contest as part of their regular participation in Cookbooker are not eligible to be considered for prizes.
3. Available prizes. This challenge is not publisher-supported, so we'll spring for the prizes. Three (3) prizes of one (1) cookbook each, to be chosen by the winner from any of Rose Levy Beranbaum's previous cookbooks regularly available for bookstore purchase (no rare, out of print or specialty copies).
Cookbooker staff will select the winners based on following criteria: reviews are considered to be suitable for consideration if they are submitted to Cookbooker during the period of the challenge. They must contain a star rating and a written opinion of the recipe which is at least 50 words in length and shows that the reviewer has made the recipe. Members are able to win a maximum of two cookbooks in each calendar year (to give everyone else a chance, keeners!). Winners will be chosen by a weighted random drawing, with one ballot given for each review submitted. If there are 100 reviews, and you have made 5 recipes, you will get 5 ballots in the random draw. Unless you win a prize during one of the draws, your ballots will count for each of the 3 draws. We will also show 'technical' winners on the site, consisting of the top 3 reviewers by number of reviews submitted. They will not receive prizes, but will receive the kudos of the cookbooker community.
4. Restrictions. Winners must provide a mailing address to receive a prize. Anyone working for Cookbooker, the book's author or publisher, their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible to win any prizes. Anyone, however, may write reviews of recipes on Cookbooker at any time, including the recipes involved in a Cook the Book Challenge, subject to the website Terms of Service.
5. For names of winners, available from December 28, 2011, visit www.cookbooker.com/challenge.php
Cookbooker Challenges are collaborative reviewing projects, coordinated by Cookbooker.com. No purchase is required to enter or win any prizes offered.