Awesome news for Jennifer Schell! Still time to buy for XMAS presents. GLV
Jennifer Schell, author of The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine and Cheese Maker – An Okanagan Cookbook has been honoured with the award for “Best Local Cuisine cookbook in Canada” at the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are often compared by journalists to the “Oscars”.
Founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau, from the Cointreau liqueur and Cognacs Frapin and Remy Martin family, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards is the premier awards of its type. It’s held in conjunction with the Paris Cookbook Fair and over 150 countries enter the awards each year, totalling several thousand books, all competing for the title of “Best in the World” in each of the 50+ categories.
The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine and Cheese Maker will go on to compete against winners in the same category in other countries for The Best in the World. The results will be announced on May 20-21, 2014 at the annual Awards event. It will take place in Beijing during the first “Beijing Cookbook Fair”, May 19-21, 2014.
For more information: visit the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards at www.cookbookfair.com
About the Book
This cookbook features over 160 contributors including chefs, farmers, artisans and award winning winemakers and also includes Okanagan family recipes that have been handed down for generations. Recipes include contributions from Chefs Rod Butters, Paul Cecconi, Bernard Casavant, Mark Filatow, Sandrine Martin-Raffault, Grant DeMontreuil and Natasha Schooten whose stories are paired with the stories of the farmers, artisans and winemakers they work alongside. This book is a virtual who’s who in the culinary world of the Okanagan and a celebration of its rich farming history and of all of the passionate people behind the recipe who create our food.
Copies can be purchased online or at the list of retailers listed at: http://www.anokanagancookbook.com/An_Okanagan_Cookbook/Purchase_Books.html
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