A recipe book from the team behind Polpo restaurant is judged Waterstones Book of the Year.
Polpo cookbook beats Hilary Mantel to Waterstones prize
Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) features recipes for pizzette, meatballs and the perfect Bellini.
The author, Russell Norman, opened his no-bookings Polpo restaurant in London’s Soho in 2009, offering small, tapas-style plates based on the menu of a Venetian bacaro.
The cookbook was a surprise winner of the inaugural prize, which featured a shortlist of fiction and non-fiction nominated by Waterstones staff.
Nominees included Bring Up The Bodies, which won the Man Booker Prize last month.
The other contenders were Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper, The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot by Robert Macfarlane, On The Map: Why The World Looks The Way It Does by Simon Garfield and HHhH by Laurent Binet.
James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, said: “We wanted our first Book of the Year to stand out for many reasons.
“Polpo absolutely does - not just for its obvious merits as a cookery book, of which it is a first class example from an absolute expert, but it is a book that, for all the bytes and e-ink in the world, can only be properly appreciated in its printed form.”
Full article at The Telegraph
James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, said: “We wanted our first Book of the Year to stand out for many reasons.
“Polpo absolutely does - not just for its obvious merits as a cookery book, of which it is a first class example from an absolute expert, but it is a book that, for all the bytes and e-ink in the world, can only be properly appreciated in its printed form.”
Full article at The Telegraph