The James Beard Foundation
2008 Cookbook Award Winners

Presented by Green & Black's®

For cookbooks published in English in 2007.

Winners were announced June 8, 2008.

 

Cookbook of the Year

• The River Cottage Meat Book
• Author: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Clancy Drake
• Price: $40.00

Cookbook Hall of Fame

• Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco
• Author: Paula Wolfert
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Price $19.00

Category: Asian Cooking

• My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
• Author: Niloufer Ichaporia King
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Editor: Hannah Love
• Price $27.50

Category: Baking and Dessert

• Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads:
  New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
• Author: Peter Reinhart
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Meghan Keeffe
• Price: $35.00

Category: Cooking from a Professional Point of View

• The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine
• Authors: The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
• Editor: Leslie Stoker
• Price: $75.00

Category: Entertaining

• Dish Entertains
• Author: Trish Magwood
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Editor: Kirsten Hanson
• Price: $44.95 CDN

Category: Americana

• A Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections
• Author: Jean Anderson
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Editor: Hugh Van Dusen
• Price: $32.50

Category: General

• Cooking
• Author: James Peterson
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Lorena Jones
• Price: $40.00

Category: Healthy Focus

• The EatingWell Diet
• Authors: Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of EatingWell
• Publisher: The Countryman Press
• Editor: Kermit Hummel
• Price: $24.95

Category: International

• The Country Cooking of France
• Author: Anne Willan
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Editor: William LeBlond
• Price: $50.00

Category: Reference

• Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide
  to Oyster Eating in North America
• Author: Rowan Jacobsen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Editor: Kathy Belden
• Price: $24.95

Category: Single Subject

• The River Cottage Meat Book
• Author: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Clancy Drake
• Price: $40.00

Category: Wine and Spirits

• IMBIBE! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, A Salute in Stories
  and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
• Author: David Wondrich
• Publisher: Perigee
• Editor: Marian Lizzi
• Price: $23.98

Category: Writing on Food

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Author: Barbara Kingsolver
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Editor: Terry Karten
• Price: $26.95

Category: Photography

• The Country Cooking of France
• Photographer: France Ruffenach
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Editor: William LeBlond
• Price: $50.00

 

Full list of James Beard Foundation 2008 Cookbook Award Nominees

Full list of James Beard Foundation 2008 Awards (includes journalism, chefs, and restaurants)

 

Also check out the 2007 James Beard Foundation—KitchenAid Book Award Winners and the 2008 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award Winners.

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