The Moroccan Cookbook
Ghillie Basan
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS December 2025!
The Food and Cooking of Greece
Rena Salaman
Revisiting a classic of Greek cuisine from Rena Salaman. “Greek food for Greeks is never simply food. It is always a celebration – of country, family, friends.” With the release of an updated and expanded edition of her bestselling book The Food and Cooking of Greece, ckbk spoke to author Rena Salaman about her life and work. “Her passion for the eating customs and dishes of Greece is palpable, and there are treats to discover, including her ‘desert island’ dish.” Rena’s classic avgolemono is featured in Felicity Cloake’s ‘How to make the perfect…’ series, Easter 2024.
My Bangladesh Kitchen
Saira Hamilton
Saira’s book, My Bangladesh Kitchen, is a finalist in the Silk Road Gourmand Food Cookbook Awards November 2023.
Gourmand Book Award Winners 2023
Home-made Sweets & Candies by Claire Ptak won a Gourmand Cookbook Award 2023, as did The Complete Book of Coffee by Mary Banks and Christine McFadden.
Gourmand Winners 2022
Mridula Baljekar’s INDIAN VEGAN & VEGETARIAN wins ‘Best Asian Cookbook 2022’ in the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards. Heather Whinney’s GINGERBREAD wins ‘Best Single Subject Cookbook’.
Create a Mediterranean Garden
Pattie Barron
“I’ve been dreaming of blue skies, vibrantly coloured flowers and warm sun thanks to a new book that landed on my desk, a welcome distraction from miserable weather and even worse world news. It’s a comprehensive guide to creating gardens that Richard Mabey in his foreword describes as an ‘oasis of sunlight’. Not only that, they are drought resistant, making them easier on maintenance – no lugging watering cans every night during summer…. What does shine through is the author’s knowledge and passion for the subject.” The Chatty Gardener, March 2022
Best in the World Cookbook
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021
We are proud to announce that both Ghillie Basan’s LEBANESE COOKBOOK and Terry Tan’s CHINA: A COOKBOOK have won ‘Best in the World Cookbook’ in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021.
Best Meat Cookbook
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021
Home Charcuterie author Paul Thomas is announced as one of the judges in the upcoming British Charcuterie Live Awards 2020/1. His new book has also just won ‘Best Meat Cookbook UK’ in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. To view this book click here here!
Gluten-free Kitchen
Catherine Atkinson
“This week saw the start of a new series of Bake Off, and with schools going back, autumnal days now here, and the whole, gloomy COVID and economic situation, we needed something to cheer ourselves up! So this week I’m sharing news that, for many families, will be a Godsend: a newly published baking book for anyone needing to avoid gluten. Gluten-Free Kitchen, by Catherine Atkinson, published by Lorenz Books at £15 hardback, is great value and allows those on gluten-free diets to enjoy pasta, bread, cakes, cookies and other delicious goodies that are normally strictly out of bounds. But the recipes are so good that all the family can enjoy them.” Alison Jee, October 2020. To view this book click here here!
The World Encyclopedia of Trees
Tony Russell
Tree expert Tony Russell’s new book World Encyclopedia of Trees is now out, and signed copies are offered at the Batsford Arborteum (www.batsarb.co.uk), also ‘garden of the month’ in his Gardens to Visit, full of glorious autumn colour. To view this book click here here!
Early Bird Winner
Best Asian Cookbook
We are delighted to announce that Terry Tan’s ‘China: A Cookbook’ has won ‘Best Asian Cookbook’ UK in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021. To view this wonderful book click here here!
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ANNOUNCING FIVE (!) UK WINNERS
IN THE GOURMAND INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARDS 2020
Congratulations to Saira Hamilton (My Bangladesh Kitchen – ‘Best Asian Cookbook’), Asa Simonsson (Fermentation – ‘Best Fermentation Cookbook’), Heather Whinney (Ramen – ‘Best Japanese Cookbook’), Antony Wild and Carol Pastor (The Perfect Afternoon Tea Recipe Book’ – ‘Best Pastry and Desserts Cookbook’) and Stuart Walton (Brandy Cocktails – ‘Best Cognac and Brandy book’). What a haul!
Finalist for How to Propagate 375 Plants
Garden Media Guild Awards 2018
We were delighted to hear that ‘How to Propagate 375 Plants’ by Richard Rosenfeld was a finalist in the Peter Seabrook Practical Book of the Year Award 2018, held by The Garden Media Guild Awards in London.
South-East Asian Curries wins top award!
Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards
We are pleased to announce that our South-East Asian Curries book has just won a prestigious Gourmand World Cookbooks award for best single subject cookbook in the UK – it is now going forward to represent the UK in the best of the world in this category in Macau in July 2019.
The Mushroom Cookbook wins Best Mushroom Cookbook
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Congratulations to Michael Hyams and Liz O’Keefe, authors of The Mushroom Cookbook (£15, hb, 978 0754832867), which has just been announced as UK winner of Best Mushroom Cookbook in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards! The well-known Mushroom Man’s guide to edible fungi, has mouth-watering photographs by Jon Ashford and is a full directory of wild and cultivated types with fifty tempting and original recipes to use them through the seasons. The book now goes through on the shortlist for the ‘best in the world’ award to be decided in China in May 2018.
The Mushroom Cookbook Interview
by David Leite
Liz O’Keefe went along to the BBC recording studios to chat about mushrooms with David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria…can’t wait to hear the broadcast in a few weeks.