Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Gourmand Awards
Awarded for	Best cookbooks and wine books in the world
Website	www.cookbookfair.com

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. It is free competition and open to publishers in all languages and countries. The Gourmand Awards celebrate global cookbook and wine book publishing and feature many world-renowned chefs each year. There is also a focus on self-published books as founder, Edouard Cointreau sees this as the fastest growing segment in publishing.

In 2008, books from 102 countries participated in the competition. It is sometimes described as the "Oscars of food awards in Paris".

The objectives of the Awards are:

The winners in each language are announced in November, and compete for the Best in the World, announced in April of the following year at a gala dinner.

Every year, Gourmand gives the awards in a very special location for gastronomy. The Ceremony is always an opportunity to meet every important person in the world of cookbooks and winebooks: hundreds of publishers, authors, chefs and journalists take part in these events.

"Gourmand has created a wide spectrum of representation and entertainment with the awards ceremony: at the same moment glamorous and humorous, elegant and funny." Herta Gal, Author, Germany

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