Guild of Food Writers Awards – 2010 to 1998
Awards Winners 2009
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Mark Hix, British Seasonal Food (Quadrille)
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing
Channel Four’s Jamie’s Ministry of Food (Fresh One Productions) and
Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte, The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (Earthscan)
Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year
Diana Henry for articles published in the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Heston Blumenthal, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Bloomsbury)
Food Broadcast of the Year Award
BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours: Lunch
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Bee Wilson for articles published in the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine
Jeremy Round Award for the Best First Book
Guy Watson and Jane Baxter, Riverford Farm Cook Book (Fourth Estate)
Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel
Fuchsia Dunlop, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper (Ebury)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Guy Watson and Jane Baxter, Riverford Farm Cook Book (Fourth Estate)
Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating
BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme: Nutritionism
New Media Award
Tim Hayward for his blog on The Guardian and The Observer’s Word of Mouth website
Restaurant Reviewer of the Year Award
Emma Sturgess for reviews published in Metro
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Mary Berry
Egon Ronay
Awards Winners 2008
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Sarah Raven, Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Hattie Ellis, Planet Chicken (Hodder & Stoughton)
Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Shona Crawford Poole, for work in Country Living magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Martin Jones, Feast: Why Humans Share Food (Oxford University Press)
Food Broadcast of the Year Award
The Food Programme: China Tea (BBC Radio 4)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Bee Wilson, for work in the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine
Jeremy Round Award for the Best First Book
Marwood Yeatman, The Last Food of England (Ebury Press)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher, The River Cottage Fish Book (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating
Jill Dupleix, Lighten Up (Quadrille)
New Media Award
Restaurant Reviewer of the Year Award
Tracey MacLeod, for reviews published in The Independent magazine
Lifetime Achievement Award
Katie Stewart
Awards Winners 2007
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Skye Gyngell, A Year in my Kitchen (Quadrille)
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Felicity Lawrence, for work published in The Guardian
Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Diana Henry, for work published in The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Ruth Cowen, Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Felicity Lawrence, for work published in The Guardian
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Ruth Cowen, Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Mark Hix, British Regional Food (Quadrille)
Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating
The Food Programme: Arthritis (BBC Radio 4)
Awards Winners 2006
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Fizz Carr, The River Cottage Family Cookbook (Hodder & Stoughton)
Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Alex Mackay for work published in Sainsbury’s Magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Nicola Humble, Culinary Pleasures (Faber and Faber)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Fuchsia Dunlop for work published in the Financial Times and Observer Food Monthly
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Richard Bertinet, Dough (Kyle Cathie)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Hattie Ellis, Best of British Fish (Mitchell Beazley)
Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating
Jeanette Orrey, The Dinner Lady (Transworld Publishers)
Awards Winners 2005
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Shaun Hill, How to Cook Better (Mitchell Beazley)
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Charles Clover, The End of the Line (Ebury Press)
Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Mark Hix, for work in The Independent Magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Matthew Fort, Eating Up Italy (Fourth Estate)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Caroline Stacey, for work in The Independent
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Felicity Lawrence, Not on the Label (Penguin)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
John Burnett, England Eats Out (Pearson Education)
Awards Winners 2004
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Madhur Jaffrey, The Curry Bible (Ebury Press)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Angela Nilsen for work in ‘The Ultimate’ series in BBC Good Food magazine
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Felicity Lawrence for a series of investigative articles in The Guardian
Food Book of the Year Award
Paul Richardson, Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate (Time Warner Books, UK)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Bee Wilson for work in the Sunday Telegraph magazine
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Vicky Bhogal, Cooking Like Mummiji (Simon and Schuster)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
The Food Programme: Women’s Institute (BBC Radio 4)
Awards Winners 2003
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Monisha Bharadwaj, Stylish Indian in Minutes (Kyle Cathie)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Annie Bell for work in Country Living magazine
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Local Food Programme Toolkit, various authors (International Society for Ecology and Culture)
Food Book of the Year Award
David Thompson, Thai Food (Pavilion)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Kevin Gould for work in Waitrose Food Illustrated
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Clarissa Hyman, Cucina Siciliana (Conran Octopus)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Colin Spencer, British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History (Grub Street)
Awards Winners 2002
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Gordon Ramsay and Roz Denny, Just Desserts (Quadrille)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Jill Dupleix for work in The Times
Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning or Investigative Food Journalism
Eating Oil: Food Supply in a Changing Climate, Andy Jones, Sustain and Elm Farm Research
Food Book of the Year Award
Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (Bloomsbury)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Fiona Beckett for work in The Times, Decanter, Sainsbury’s The Magazine
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Fuchsia Dunlop, Sichuan Cookery (Michael Joseph)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The River Cottage Cookbook (Harper Collins)
Awards Winners 2001
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Donna Hay, Flavours (Murdoch Books)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Sophie Grigson for work in Country Living magazine
Food Book of the Year Award
Andrew Dalby, Dangerous Tastes (British Museum Press)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Catherine Brown for work in The Glasgow Herald
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Rowley Leigh, No Place Like Home (Fourth Estate)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Sue Lawrence, Scots Cooking (Headline)
Radio Broadcast of the Year Award
The Food Programme: Dry-curing (BBC Radio 4)
Recipe Writer of the Year Award
Lesley Mackley
Television Broadcast of the Year Award
Nigella Bites (Channel 4)
Awards Winners 2000
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Paul Gayler, A Passion for Vegetables (Kyle Cathie) and
Dan Lepard and Richard Whittington, Baking with Passion (Quadrille)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Katie Stewart for features in BBC Homes & Antiques
Food Book of the Year Award
Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford University Press)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Clarissa Hyman for features in Food & Travel, The Times, Food Illustrated and Journey magazine
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Sara Jayne Stanes, Chocolate: The Definitive Guide (Grub Street)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Laura Mason and Catherine Brown, The Traditional Foods of Britain (Prospect Books) and
Gary Rhodes, New British Classics (BBC Worldwide)
Recipe Writer of the Year Award
Kate McBain for recipes in The Taste of Sainsbury’s
Television Broadcast of the Year Award
Jamie Oliver for The Naked Chef (Optomen Television)
Awards Winners 1999
Cookery Book of the Year Award
Madhur Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian (Ebury Press)
Cookery Journalist of the Year Award
Brian Glover
Food Book of the Year Award
Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything (Headline)
Food Broadcaster of the Year Award
Nigel Slater for Nigel Slater’s Real Food (Kudos Productions)
Food Journalist of the Year Award
Manisha Gambhir Harkins for work in The Master’s Table
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Regina Sexton, A Little History of Irish Food (Kyle Cathie)
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Sybil Kapoor, Simply British (Michael Joseph)
Recipe Writer of the Year Award
Jennifer John, recipes on behalf of British Potato Council, Olive Oil
Awards Winners 1998
Special Award for Significant Contribution to Food Journalism
Derek Cooper OBE
Book of the Year Award
Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food (Viking)
Food Broadcast of the Year Award
Derek Cooper and The Food Programme team
Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book
Anne Willan, Cooked to Perfection (Quadrille)
Magazine Cookery Writer of the Year Award
Sophie Grigson for articles in Country Living magazine
Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
Christopher Driver, John Evelyn, Cook (Prospect Books)
Recipe Writer of the Year Award
Sue Lawrence for articles in Sainsbury’s, The Magazine and The Sunday Times
