And the winner is

Auszug aus dem Buchreport 9.2005 (german)

Winner:

Contes et Recettes du Monde
Guy Martin et Henri Gougaud Dessins : Henri Tullet Photographies des plats: Isabelle Rozenbaum Stylisme : Laurence Mouton (Editions du Seuil – France)
Three star chef Guy Martin of the Grand Vefour in Paris explains his creative process for recipes , starting from short stories from many countries.
A masterpiece which should be translated.

Honourable Mentions:

El Hambre en España, Miguel Angel Almodovar
(Oberon – Grupo Anaya – Spain)

This study of hunger in Spain reminds the reader of the background to the current success of Spanish cuisine.

Honourable Mentions:

The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy, Twenty Years of the Best Food Writing from the Journal Petits Propos Culinaires Edited by Alan Davidson Foreword by Harold McGee (Ten Speed – USA)
We do not usually reward anthologies or texts published previously. But “The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy” should be present in all serious food libraries, it is food writing at its best. We will all miss Alan Davidson.

Honourable Mentions:

Mouna, Mimouna, Achoura – Claude Arrieu
(Pyregraph – France)

In North Africa before 1962, Christians, Jews and Moslems had the same traditional recipe for their main religious feasts. The author researched the roots of the recipe, which each group believed came from another source, and builds a convincing optimistic view for the future of the Mediterranean.