Cat Cora is Coming! And You Can Win Prizes.

Here at Chow Bella, we're weak in the knees at the thought of Cat Cora's upcoming book signing at Changing Hands Bookstore, June 23. And we've got a friendly competiton to get you fired up. (Learn all about the contest after the jump.)...

By Amy Silverman

May 26, 2010

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Here at Chow Bella, we're weak in the knees at the thought of Cat Cora's upcoming book signing at Changing Hands Bookstore, June 23.

And we've got a friendly competiton to get you fired up.

(Learn all about the contest after the jump.)

Tell us what "secret ingredient" you'd most like to see Cora use in an upcoming episode of "Iron Chef," and we'll enter your name in a drawing to win front row seats at the event, a place in the "A" signing group, and a Chow Bella apron.

There might also be a special prize for the most creative ingredient.

Leave your suggestion in the comment section below. Please enter just once. We'll accept responses til 5 pm, Friday, June 4.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.