Hi friends, this isn’t an episode but a little podcast community announcement. We’re still a relatively new podcast and one of the best ways for us to grow our audience and support more home cooks is to gather more reviews and ratings on Apple Podcast, so we’re gonna run a little giveaway starting today Thursday, September 19th, running through Wednesday, October 2nd.

The prize is an 8” Global chef’s knife worth $125. This is the chef’s knife that I use, and I love it so much that I want a lucky listener to get one too!

You have 2 options to enter the giveaway:

Leave a review on Apple Podcast and then send us a screenshot of it at hello@cooksmarts.com. That way we can easily contact you if you’ve won because it’s not always obvious from your iTunes user name who you are.
If you’ve already left a review in the past or are just not an Apple person, is to leave a review on our voicemail. The number is 650-386-0290. Introduce yourself, tell us why you love Cook Smarts and our podcast, and then make sure to close with your email address. Don’t worry, we won’t share your email address on the air, but it’ll make it easy for us to contact you.

We’ll then mix up all the Apple reviews and phone reviews and select a winner at random on Friday, October 4th and then announce the winner on Monday, October 7th. And because we get to make our own rules, maybe there will be a bonus prize for the review that gives me the biggest smile!

Now for those of you who want to participate but have never left a podcast review, let me walk you through how to do it. There are 2 easy ways to do it. If you have the Apple Podcast app on your phone, just head to our podcast page from there, scroll to the bottom where you’ll see ratings and reviews and just click on the Write a Review link. If you’re on a desktop computer that has iTunes, just click on this link https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-kitchen-with-cook-smarts/id1454754429, and then choose to listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast. It’ll open it in iTunes and from there you can click on “Ratings and Reviews” and click on the “Write a Review” button.

So leave us some kind words on Apple Podcast or give us a ring at 650-386-0290. We’d love to hear your voice and remember to introduce yourself at the beginning and leave your email at the end!

In the Kitchen With Cook Smarts