Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner
By Aaron Chronister
 An exciting turn of events and an early Christmas present as we were recently notified that our BBQ book, BBQ Makes Everything Better was selected as the USA winner in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards “Best Barbecue Book” category! This means we continue on to compete against winning BBQ cookbooks from other countries for “Best in the World.” The results will be announced on March 3, 2011, in Paris. Of course, we are hoping that we’ll be forced to fly to France to teach Europe how to use a smoker!
We feel extremely honored to be selected for this prestigious award. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau, highlights the leading food and wine books yearly. Helping readers and retailers find the best books out of the tens of thousands released every year is one of their major objectives. With 145 countries represented, this truly international competition is honoring candidates in 53 cookbook and drink categories culminating at the Paris Cookbook Fair where the “Best in the World” winners will be announced.
Last year’s U.S. winner was Artisan’s Seven Fires: Grilling The Argentine Way by Francis Mallmann, Peter Kaminsky. FriendsEat.com has some of winners from last year in different categories.
We want to congratulate this year’s top overall cookbook in the U.S., The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century by Amanda Hesser. We are completely not surprised that it won, considering it contains one of our recipes: the Bacon Explosion of course!
If you’re looking for new foods to try, it’s quite an impressive list of overall winners from around the world:
Argentina: Siete Fuegos, Mallmann, Kaminky
Australia: Bentley
Austria: Sacher
Bangladesh: Sasto Sochaton Ranna, Keka Ferdousi
Belgium: Dix Petits Doights Pleains de Chocolat, Pierre Marcolini
Bhutan : Foods of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Canada : Glutton for Pleasure, Bob Blumer
Chile : Gastronomía del Mar
China : Official Health Food, Master Chef Du Guang Bei
Colombia : Secretos de la Parrilla, Bernardo Gómez Cortazar
Costa Rica : Saberes y Sabores de Boruca, Leila Garro Valverde
Czech Republic : Czech Home Cook, Jitka Rakoskikova
Denmark : Paul Food, Paul Cunningham
Ecuador : Cocina de Autor, Santiago Chamorro
Finland: Olo
France: 1 Canard, 2 Daguin
Ghana : Ghanaian Cook Book, Sophia Manu
Germany : JW4
Greece : Every Day , Argiro Barbarigou
Hong Kong : Grandma, Grandpa Cook
Hungary : Segal Viktor – Colours and Taste
Iceland :Silver of the Sea, Volundar Snaer Volundarsson
India : Byriani-Pratibha Karan
Ireland : Catherine’s Italian Kitchen , Catherine Fulvio
Italy : Food Designing, Marti Guixe
Japan : 12 Roads and Stories of the Foods, Chieko Mukasa
Latvia : Est Ir Tava Daba
Laos : Food from Northern Laos – The Boat Landing Cookbook
Luxembourg: Henri Schumacher Pâtissier
Lebanon : Mouneh
Malaysia : Kulit Manis, A Taste of Terengganu’s Heritage. Puan Rosita Bt Abdullah
Malta : Pippa’s Festa, Pippa Mattei
Mexico : Los Top Chefs de Mexico
Morocco : Le Figuier de Barbarie
Netherlands : Toscanini Venticinqe
New Zealand : Me’a Kai, Come Eat, Robert Oliver, Dr.Tracy Berno, Shiri Ram
Norway : Ekte Mat, Andreas Viestad
Peru : History, Anecdotes, and Some Recipes from Peruvian Cuisine, Berit Knudsen
Philippines : An Invitation to Malacañan
Poland :Nature of Polish Cuisine – Woicieh Modest Amaro
Portugal : 2780 Taberna
Russia : Larousse Gastronomique
Singapore : Above and Beyond, Singapore Airlines
Slovenia : Ljubezen Skoz Zwloswx
South Africa : Koekemakranka Khoi-Khoin Kultuurgoed en Kom-Kuier-Kos Renata Coetzee
Spain : Las Cocinas del Camino de Santiago
Sweden : Syrat –Sour
Switzerland : Fusion Pur
Trinidad Tobago : Ah´Len – Welcome
Turkey: Tadi Damagimda Kaldi, Mehmet Soykan
UAE: Arabian Dreams, Aaron Maree
Uruguay: Gastronomía de las Costas de Rocha, Juan Antonio Varese
UK: Noma, Rene Redzepi
Venezuela: Las Recetas Olvidadas, Gamal El Fakih Rodríguez
While I can’t find the list of the world BBQ book category winners yet, we’ll post them as soon as we do. In the meantime, be sure to grab your copy of our International Award Winning BBQ Book and wish us luck in our quest for world BBQ domination! |
