Gourmand Awards 2023
Winners by Countries
Posters
With over 100.000 screened books and publications from some 230 countries and regions, the Gourmand Awards brings an overview about food and drink information published all around the world this year.
We have prepared posters for the winners by countries that have been selected to compete for the Best in the World in 2023. All the posters have the front cover of the book, and a presentation text in English. It has been a huge amount of work for us, but it is little compared to the dedication and efforts of the authors and publishers.
There are 1250 posters in total, 1067 posters for Food Culture books, and 183 for Drinks Culture books, with books from 142 countries. Posters are helpful for international promotion, attract attention from other countries, and open the door to foreign rights trade and distribution. In fact, reading these posters is like reading a book on the State of Food and Drink Culture 2022.
Each category presents its national winners before the Best in the World Ceremony. The scope of this selection reflects the passion of all humanity for cooking, as well as the immense food challenges of the 21st century.
We do not always repeat posters when text and image would be the same in another category. We made posters for nearly all winners, but not all.
SELECTED NOMINEES FOR GOURMAND AWARDS EVENT IN 2022
November 15, 2021
The deadline for the Gourmand Awards 2022 was November 15, 2021. This final list includes the selected nominees for the Best in the World awards ceremony event of 2022. Each list incorporates all nominees from the previous lists of 2021. Here are the Winners for their country competition. They will represent their country. There is only one book per country in each category.
The major objective of this list is to help the promotion of the nominees with the media as early as possible after the books are published. For this purpose, the nominees already have the right to digital Gourmand Awards Winners certificates and stickers.
There are 1558 selections from 227 countries and regions. It is the maximum we ever had. There are 1393 for Food Culture and 165 for Drink Culture. It includes 275 free documents, selected for their quality and importance, from thousands available, with free downloads on internet. The United Nations, FAO, WFP, UNESCO, are the largest publishers of those free documents.
We have more participating books. It is always free and open to all to participate, big or small, trade publisher or institution or self publishing. Last year already had seen an increase of 20%. With the pandemic, people are coming back to cooking and reading. Authors and publishers are responding to the demand in quantity and quality.
Even more significant is that the increase is worldwide. The rise in Latin America and Africa is spectacular. The pandemic is global, it changes behaviors everywhere. More food books are published around the world, food culture is becoming essential.
The selection of the Gourmand Awards give an overview of the best around the world. The size of that universe is difficult to envision from individual countries. In t otal, we estimate there are now over 100.000 food and drink culture books and documents every year, in print or digital, free or paid, with or without ISBN. There were approximately 25.000 when we started 26 years ago, with much less digital or free. There is approximately 1% chance to be selected on this Gourmand Awards list !
Edouard Cointreau
Founder and President
Gourmand Awards
FOOD CULTURE Best in the World 2021
Gourmand Awards 2022
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DRINK CULTURE Best in the World 2021
Gourmand Awards 2022
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BEST IN THE WORLD
May 25, 2021
Best in the World 2021, from 80 countries and regions
The ranking of the Best in the World 2021 were supposed to be announced at the awards event in Paris Louvre-Tuileries on June 5, 2021. Due to the Covid-19, we had to change the plan. We decided to announce the results on May 25, 2021 to help now the authors and publishers. The awards ceremony will be November 29, at Les Cordeliers, Paris 6.
Les Cordeliers may be the most beautiful place we ever had for the Gourmand Awards. It is certainly the most historical, a middle ages monk convent turned intoo the French Revolution Club led by Danton. In November 2021, we hope to meet there all the Best in the World in this list.
We treat all Top 4 in the same way, they are all Best inthe World. They already have the right to the Best in the World certificates and self adhesive stickers. They can use their Gourmand Award to promote their work with the media and readers.
Edouard Cointreau
Founder and President
Gourmand Awards
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See the list FOOD CULTURE >>>
See the list DRINK CULTURE >>>
FOOD CULTURE Best in the World 2021
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DRINK CULTURE Best in the World 2021
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4.-The Process
- In 2010, 8000 books were received, with 154 countries participating, after 136 countries one year earlier..
- The books have first to qualify in a national competition, with results announced in December.
- They represent their country in the “Best in the World” competition, which are proclaimed the following year.
5.-The Jury
The international jury for all languages and the Best in the World is composed of :
Edouard Cointreau,
Chairman of the Awards Committee.
Sara Baer-Sinnott,
Sara Baer-Sinnott, President of the Oldways
Exchange and Trust Foundation (USA)
Jean Jacques Ratier,
Director of Hospitality School of Dordogne.
