Gourmand World Cookbook Award
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The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau as the World Cookbook Awards. They were renamed in 2001. The Awards are made in 34 categories for cookbooks and 14 for wine books, a total of 48 categories.
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[edit] Format
The objectives of the Awards are:
- Reward and honour those who “cook with words”.
- Help readers find the best out of the 24000 food and wine books produced every year.
- Create an opportunity to access the major markets in English, German, Spanish or French for books originated in other languages.
- Increase knowledge of, and respect for, food and wine culture, which promotes peace.
In 2004, the judges reviewed over 5000 books from 60 countries in 53 national or regional competitions. Initially, books compete in their own language . Most entries are in English; since 2002, there have been three competitions for books in English— the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Rest of the World. There are two categories for books in French: for those published in France and those outside France. There are also two categories for Castilian-Spanish: for Spain and America. The winners in each language are announced in November, and compete for the Best in the World, announced in February of the following year at a gala dinner.
[edit] History
The awards were made at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1995 and 1996, in Paris in 1997, in Périgueux in 1998, in Versailles in 1999, in Périgueux in 2000, and in Sorges in 2001. After the renaming the awards were made at Chateau de Brissac, Angers, France, on February 28, 2003, in Barcelona on February 27, 2004 and in Orebro-Grythyttan, Sweden, on February 11, 2005.
[edit] Jury
In 2005 the members of the international jury for all languages and the Best in the World is composed are:
- Edouard Cointreau, Chairman of the Awards Committee
- Dun Gifford, President of the Oldways Exchange and Trust Foundation (USA)
- Prince Franz-Wilhelm of Prussia (Germany)
- Jean Jacques Ratier, Commissaire du Salon International du Livre Gourmand, Mayor of Sorges (France)
- Bo Masser, Director of Booktown Grythyttan (Sweden)
[edit] Publisher of the Year
- 1996 Murdoch Books (Australia)
- 1997 Gräfe Und Unzer (Germany)
- 1998 Vefa Alexiadou (Greece)
- 1999 Prisma (Sweden)
- 2000 Grub Street (Great Britain)
- 2001 La Val de Onsera (Spain)
- 2002 Larousse (France)
- 2003 Klett-Cotta (Germany)
[edit] Best Chef Book in the World
- 2003 Flaveurs, Philippe Rochat (Switzerland)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
Cointreau, Edouard. Press Release, March 6, 2005 (Madrid: Gourmand, 2005)
