Paris Cookbook Fair is a feast, with chefs demonstrations at the international and French show kitchens, conferences, Malaysian tribal food, luxury cookbook binding, the wine pentathlon, the International Bar, the beer tastings, and much more.
It is also a business platform where professionals can meet at their stands or at the international rights center to conduct trade in an easy, pleasant environment with no stress. The objective is to make the Paris Cookbook Fair the hub of the cookbook business worldwide. Children books have the Bologna Book Fair, comics have Angoulême, cookbooks and wine books have now Paris.
Everyone comes for the same purpose. However the diversity of the offer and demand is such now that there is something different for everyone, in price, in content and in style.
I hope that trade will meet pleasure.
Edouard Cointreau
GOURMAND INTERNATIONAL
Paris Cookbook Fair, President
China Food Television, President of Honour
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, President and Founder
WFWF-TV, World Association of Food TV Producers, President
FOOD CULTURE
32th Gourmand Awards 2026
Nominees for the
32nd GOURMAND AWARDS
FOOD CULTURE - SUMMER CHAMPIONS
We already have 951 finalists from 201 countries and international organizations, for the 32nd Food Gourmand Awards.
This is the Summer list of the first 9 months since October 15, 2025.
The quality keeps rising, it is really wonderful and heart-warming.
The next list will be the final shortlist, to be published on October 20, 2026. It will include all finalists on this list below.
Congratulations to all finalists!
Edouard Cointreau
Founder and President
Gourmand Awards
www.cookbookfair.com
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DRINK CULTURE
32th Gourmand Awards 2026
Nominees for the
32nd GOURMAND AWARDS
DRINK CULTURE - SUMMER CHAMPIONS
This is the list for the selection of Drinks books of 2026. It started October 15, 2025, it ends October 15, 2026.
There are 89 books from 28 countries + OIV and the European Union.
The Awards ceremony will be in a wine country in the first months of 2027.
Edouard Cointreau
Founder and President
Gourmand Awards
www.cookbookfair.com
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Shortlist for the
31st GOURMAND AWARDS
FOOD CULTURE
Shortlist October 2025 FOR BOOKS PUBLISHED 16/10/2024-15/10/2025
This is the selection for the first nine months of the 31st Gourmand Awards. On the shortlist there are only a maximum of 6 countries as finalists per category. We have 848 participants from 180 countries and from 15 international Organizations such as the UN, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNWTO, EU, FAO, IOM, ILO, IMF, OECD, UNDP, WFP, WHO, WIPO, World Bank, WTO. The shortlist is published after October 15, 2025, the deadline. The Awards Ceremony will be November 27-30, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
GOURMAND AWARDS
The Best Cookbooks in the World
The Gourmand Awards have changed the notion of gastronomy, its history, and its importance. With your efforts and dedication, you have changed the horizon of gastronomy.
Sara Beatriz Guardia, UNESCO Chair, USMP University, Lima, Peru November 29, 2022
Monsieur Edouard Cointreau,
You gave a lot of joy and happiness, You made famous and internationally known, tens of thousands of writers, chefs editors and publishers. You united the whole world, continents, réligions and faiths, languages, customs and traditions. We are united here with the same mission, The goal of our work is to bring to the world a well-being, respect to each other and peace. Thanks to you Monsieur Cointreau, the gastronomy books maintain their position and importance on the shelves of libraries and bookstores as well at homes, despite the competition from the wide choice that the internet offers free.
Avec mes salutations repectueuses
Ahmed Ladarsi, Author, Finland
GOURMAND
World Cookbook Awards
- The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. Every year, they honour the best food and wine books, printed or digital, as well as food television.
- In 2024, we have participants from 221 countries countries and regions participate in these prestigious awards, the only international competition of the sector. It is free, and open to all languages.
- 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 food and books: hundreds of publishers, authors, chefs and journalists take part in these events.
- The Gourmand Awards have been compared to the “Oscars” for film. They are inspired by the Olympic Games and their spirit.
- We reward now all food and drinks content, in print or digital, paid or free, private or public, trade publishers or self published, big or small, with an equal chance for everyone.
- The Gourmand Awards are a unique opportunity to build the image of the food culture in a country, show the world its spirit.