International Award-winning cookbook
With excitement and joy, I’m happy to announce that the Forest City Cookbook can now be called an International Award-Winning cookbook. In November 2018 we submitted the application to the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, and recently received the great news that we got pre-selected in two categories, the BEST SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK IN ENGLISH IN CANADA 2019 and the BEST DIGITAL BOOK FOR SALE IN CANADA IN 2019.
The Gourmand Awards are like the “Oscars” for Cookbooks. They are inspired in the Olympics, so all the winners from each country are finalists, getting to represent their country for the “Best in the World” title, to be announced in July 2019 at the Macau International Book Fair in China. We can now represent Canada Internationally amongst the best of the best under the “A14-Best Selling-published book” and “B14- Best digital book for sale” categories. We want to put London on the map for its culinary scene and we believe this is a big step that will contribute to it. We hope our local chefs and farmers get recognized in the international culinary community, bringing people from all over the world to our beloved city!
A14 Self Published
Algeria: Recettes Berberes, Touria Charlier (Lulu)
Austria: JOW, Joy of Waterboiling, Thomas Gotz, Soso Phist, Lisa Edi (Achse)
Canada English: Forest City Cookbook, Alieska Robles
Canada French: Recettes et Propos Sales, Claudie Gagne (Jardins de la Mer)
Comoros: Macaron, President francais devenu comorien, Nadjad Bacar (Ulule)
Czech: Recipes for Peace, Kifah Dasuki
France: Les Belles Perdrix, Nelly Sanchez
Germany: Ekdam Mito Chaa, Nepal, Fabienne Schickora (Books on Demand)
Hong Kong: Grace´s 60 Recipes, Grace Choy
India: Homemade Granola Bars & Chikki recipes, Manimekali Chelliah
Portugal: Porto Food Guide, Bruno Carvalho, Maria Sena
Sweden: Kokbok, Niklas & Kristoffer Lindblad
UK: Indian restaurant at home,(Misty Ricardo Curry Kitchen)
USA: Love, Laughter & Rhubarb, Tinky Weisblat (Merry Lion Press)
B14 Digital Book for sale
Argentina: Embutidos, Guido Tassi (Planeta)
Australia: Greek Food for Sharing, Eugenia Pantanos (Greek Lifestyle)
Brazil: Brazilian Amazon Cookbook, Otto Vanetta (edicaoes cia de ebook)
Canada English: Forest City Cookbook, Alieska Robles
Canada French: Cuisine avec Ines, Ines Gauthier (Goelette)
Colombia: Lo que se cocina para sazonar la vida, Catalina Alba Cardenas (Planeta)
Fiji: Annapurna, Nalini Naidu (Zeus)
France: Buffon 9, La Raclette, Guilhem Malissen (Nouvelles Ecoutes)
India: Spices & Rhapsodies & Foot Tapping Chefs, Viji Varadarajan (Orient Enterprises)
Jamaica: Cooking with Ackee, Dean Burrowes, Jassie Singh
Mexico: El Cacao, Alimento Divino, Martin Gonzalez de la Vera, Azucena, Surez de Miguel (Fundacion Herdez)
Norway: Flavors of the Fjords, Connors, Fladvad (Belleaire Press)
Poland: ProjektMlodosc, Urszula Mijakowska (Muza)
Portugal: Porto Food Guide, Bruno Carvalho, Maria Sena
Romania: The secrets of the dough, Stela + Catalin Gabriel Seratulat
Spain: Discvr, Galicia Special, Rodrigo Corbacioglu (Discvr)
Sri Lanka: Marshmellows of Serendip, Mariry Anne Motianraj
Tajikistan: Taste of Sarband, Ellen A. Abdulmuminov
UK: French Guy Cooking, Alexis Gabriel Arnouz (Quadrille)
USA: Noodle Soup, Ken Albala (University Illinois)
A little background info
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. Edouard is one of the most famous figures on the international culinary arts publishing scene, he started the awards more than 20 years ago to give international recognition to the best cookbooks published around the world. They are the first awards to give international recognition, and in Edouard’s words: "Our aim is to earn prestige for this publishing sector and to help authors and their books reach out to new markets". The Gourmand’s mission is to highlight cookbooks that don’t necessarily benefit from having a celebrity chef on the cover. “Every country has its own celebrity chef that can be completely unknown outside the specific country,” he says.
The Gourmand Awards are currently the most prestigious competition of its kind and each year, publishers from over 200 countries nominate thousands of books. From large publishing companies to first-time self-publishers like us, are invited to participate. All cookbooks first compete to be national winners, before moving on to the Best in the World award. Based on the past years of book fairs and awards, Edouard Cointreau acknowledges that the professional self-publishers are the fastest growing segment in the publishing industry.