Random House is thrilled to be able to announce that six of its books have won awards in the New Zealand division of the strongly contested Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
The Award winners are:
Best Italian Cuisine Cookbook – Italia: Simple Recipes from the Italian Cook School by Jo Seagar, photography by Jae Frew
· Best Cookbook by a Woman Chef– The Soul Cookbook by Judith Tabron, photography by Aaron McLean
· Best Wine and Food Matching Cookbook - Wanaka: Earth to Heaven at Whare Kea, by Louise and Martyn Myer and Michal McKay, photography by Kieran Scott
· Best First Cookbook - The Molten Cookbook by Michael van De Elzen, photography by Babiche Martens
· Best Foreign Cuisine Cookbook - Taste of a Traveller by Brett McGregor, photography by Aaron MacLean· Best Cookbook Photography - Stoked by Al Brown, photography by Kieran Scott
Wanaka: Earth to Heaven at Whare Kea has also won the Best Cookbook in New Zealand. This puts it in the running to win the highly coveted Best Cookbook in the World Award which was won in 2010 by M’ea Kai: the Food and the Flavours of the South Pacific, also published by Random House New Zealand.
‘We are delighted that these fantastic books have received this recognition,’ said Random House publishing director Nicola Legat. ‘Our talented cookbook authors and photographers pour all their expertise and creativity into their books, and we are there to help them make beautiful, indispensible, enduring cookbooks that are the very best they can be.’The Gourmand awards are extremely prestigious and 154 countries participated in last year’s awards, entering books in 53 categories. All countries, authors and publishers — big and small — are given equal opportunity to enter.
For more information and a full list or winners visit the Gourmand International website, www.gourmand-magazine.com