I just received this announcement and wanted to share this incredible news
with all of you!! Peter Reinhart has won The Gourmand World Cookbook Award
for 2002 for his "The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Mastering the Art of
Extraordinary Bread". Let's all congratulate him by baking a loaf of
wonderful bread in his honor!!!!
US COOKBOOKS ARE WORLD LEADERS
THE GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2002 WERE ANNOUNCED AT CHATEAU DE BRISSAC
The Best Cookbooks and Wine Books in the World for 2002 were announced at
the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2002 on February 28, 2003. This unique
international event took place at the 500 years old Chateau de Brissac, in
the Loire Valley next to Angers, France. These awards for food and wine
books are considered to be the "Oscars" of the sector.
Guests from 20 countries attended the glamorous celebration, which included
a ceremony with the Medieval Guild of Loire Valley Wines.
The US ranked among the top 3 winning countries
These US books were among the top winners:
* Best Bread Book in the World: The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Peter
Reinhart (Ten Speed)
Best Bread Book in the World:
"The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread",
by Peter Reinhart (Ten Speed)
Peter Reinhart has already received for this book the 2 highest cookbook
awards in the United States, Book of the Year at both IACP and James Beard
Foundation Awards. This extraordinary book deserves the widest
international audience, which our "Best in the World" award seeks to establish.
Peter Reinhart is a fulltime baking instructor at Johnson and Wales
University in Providence, Rhode Island. This is the definitive reference
book on the subject.
The competition was created by Edouard Cointreau in 1995 at the Frankfurt
Book Fair. The Awards ceremony has taken place in 1996 at the Frankfurt
Book Bair, in 1997 in Paris, in 1998 and 2000 in Périgueux, in 1999 in
Versailles, and in 2001 in Sorges, Capital of the Truffles of Perigord. In
2002, over 3500 books from 60 countries entered the competition.
For more information contact:
Edouard Cointreau
President and Founder
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards