To celebrate the release of Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything App for the iPhone Culinate would like to give away a version to five of you lucky, lucky readers. Quoting from their web page: "Everything you love about the cookbook: 2,000 recipes and recipe variations; 400 how-to illustrations; hundreds of menu ideas; and Mark Bittman’s straightforward cooking advice for simple good food." It has every single recipe from the book, how cool is that? I use the How to Cook Everything book regularly so I'm very excited that I'll have it available on my iPhone, especially when I'm standing in the store wondering what to make for dinner.

Just a note: If you don't want to wait to see if you've won, the app is currently $1.99 at a special price, I don't know how much it will cost later on. update: Also, the kind people at Culinate tell me that there will be a future app just for the How to Cook Everything Vegetarian book. They also report they are working on an iPad specific version of the HTCE app.

If you'd like to win a free app, please leave a comment with this post. If you'd like something to mention in the comment I'd love to know if you have a favorite Bittman recipe, either from HTCE or from his The Minimalist column in the NY Times. Obviously you'll need to have an iPhone or iPod touch to take advantage of this one. The usual fine print applies. You'll be chosen by the Random Number Generator, and I'll get in touch if you've been chosen. You have between right now and Wednesday, April 21st at noon, PST to enter. Good luck! Comments are closed and the randomly chosen winners will be contacted shortly, thank you!

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I have the extraordinary luck to be headed to Paris in a few months. I'll need a few things before I go.

I'm terrified of being without my iPhone for any length of time, even just for the books and games that will amuse me on long flights or train rides. This $15 iPhone charger is one I mentioned earlier, and it also made the Holiday Gift Guide for Geeks written by Mighty Girl. It gives two full charges. I might buy four. I'm also eyeing the Flexicord which I found over at NOTCOT, it's a flexible USB cord that can work as a stand for your phone, and I'm betting it will prop up an iPhone well enough to allow me to watch movies. (Flexicord image used is from from NOTCOT.com.)

I already have one of these Bucky Ultralight masks but I'll need another since Scott likes it too. I'm also going to get a Bucky Neck Pillow, previously I'd bought an inflatable pillow and it didn't work out so well.

I will need books! Besides the Rough Guide to Paris I'm looking at The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City, to get myself in the right mindset, and Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris, because I anticipate eating as much as possible while I'm there. And of course, I'll have to get the PNW's own Rick Steves' Paris 2010. Oh neat, they are all available for the Kindle, I wonder if they would look ok on my iPhone's Kindle app?

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