Let The Santa-ing Begin!

Ok, according to Andrea all the e-mails have gone out: you should all know who you are the Secret Cookbook Santa for. (<--Ended in a preposition, I know, but that's allowed when the topic is Secret Cookbook Santas.) Can we all take a moment and thank Andrea (our Survivor champ) for all the hard work she did in coordinating this? She put ALL of this together. I did nothing except tell you about it. She e-mailed ALL of you. She deserves a big Amateur Gourmet community "Thank You." Ok, ready, on the count of three...1...2...3.... Line? Line? Oh yes. THANK YOU! Now then. If you signed up but didn't receive an e-mail from Andrea, it probably means you didn't send her your address. That was silly. Otherwise, you should all have received e-mails. If you haven't, please let us know stat. I'd like to make a point here and suggest that all of you who haven't sent your gifts yet include a small note of who you are so your Secret Santa recipient can thank you when they receive their gifts. I just ordered cookbooks for my Secret Santa recipient (yes, I'm playing too) and Amazon.com (where I ordered from) lets you include a note for free. It's that easy. Let's use this posting as the place to post comments as your gifts come in. I'm sure we'd all love to hear about what you've received. Especially if I sent it. I have a terrible short-term memory. Have we thanked Andrea yet? Good luck everyone!

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