Award 2002

And the winner is

Auszug aus dem Buchreport 9.2005 (german)




				Le 7 mars 2003

		GOURMAND AWARDS CHATEAU DE BRISSAC FEBRUARY28, 2003

			*Some of the many nicewords we have received the days after the Brissac Gourmand Awards :*

	- Heinz Beck is literally bursting with chef-pride and is busy giving interviews to all of the newspapers in Rome. In short, it has been a week to remember and one which reminded us why we wanted to get into this crazy business in the first place. Thank you again for the enormous vote of confidence which the award represents. We will do our best to live up to it.

Liz Marcucci Zazzera, Bibliotheca Culinaria, Italia - It was great to catch up with so many 'old' friends, and to see Ferran Adria (and tomeet Ferran's wife) and Julie Soler. Our stay in the Chateau was marvellous and both of the suites we occupied were grand and very comfortable.

Maurice de Rohan, Agent General for South Australia for Europ Merci beaucoup...et bravo pour l`organisation à Brissac qui à été parfaite.Cadre superbe, trés bon dîner, rencontres interessantes...




				- Merci mille fois et à bientôt



		- Thank you for the wonderful news! Could you please let me know where I can get some images for the Gourmand Awards (the trademark) for a catalogue we are about to publish.




			Thanks very much! We are proud of the silver medal for our vegetariancookery book.



			- Je tiensá vous remercier pour la soirée de vendredi dernier qui fut très agréable.

Sophia Dartzali, Livani Publishing Organization, Greece

- Thank you very much for the wonderful gala evening at Chateau de Brissac! It was a unique event and we are of course very happy to be the winner of such an important category for our book "FÃ¶r alla sinnen". It is a great honor for us.

Christina Luttropp, Systembolaget, Sweden

Thank you very much for all your concerns. We had a terrific time. It's great that we won a prize, we are very proud.

Anouschka Peterink, Kosmos, Netherlands

- cheers all the best

Enrique Cillero, Cillero & Motta Translations, Spain

- I want you to know that Maria and I are very happy and very proud to be among the seven finalists for the “Best in the World” !

Claudia Uribe, Photographer, Colombia

- Merci bien. C´est un bon souvenir de ce soir à Brissac.

Bruno Boidron, Editions Féret, France

- Encore un grand merci pour ce trés agréable séjour a Angers et la superbe soirée de la remise des prix.

Henri-Pierre Millescamps, Librairie de Livres Anciens, Périgueux, France

- Thanks for all kindness and some fantastic days in Anger.

Inga-Britta Sundqvist, Author, Sweden

Aminata Sow Fall, Author, Sénégal

- Thank you very much for awarding the BEST OF NEW WORLD WINE BOOKS to our AFRICA UNCORKED

Elliott Mackey, Wine Appreciation Guild, USA

- I am very thankful to all of you for cosidering my book. I am also overjoyed that People outside India also have great interest in vegetarian cooking.

Asha Khatau, Author Epicure Cooking School, India

- Estoy muy contenta con el premio y con el evento.

Tatiana Suarez, Traductora y Profesora de Cocina, Espana.

- Estamos contentisimos con el premio, por lo que conto Lourdes Soriano, la autora que estuvo en Brissac.

Centro de la Cultura Poppular Canaria, Espana

- We want to congratlate on such a nice arrangemant ! I think you deserve a long vacation after all work to get things together, it was so well taken care off!

Lena Enghahl, Bokbolaget, Sweden

- "What a special night, what a huge honour. You are all wonderful and I was
deeply touched by my award as my husband, Alan.
Warmly