The Winter Harvest list is published on November 23, 2020. It is the final list of the year, including all other Harvest lists of 2020. The list includes all the Winners by countries in each category. There is only one Winner by country in each category, except when books are in different languages. Includes the Spring Harvest list, published April 23, the Summer Harvest list published July 23, the Autumn list published September 23.
It is the final list with all the participants in the Best in the World competition of 2021. There are now 1288 entries, from 175 countries and regions. All will participate in the next Gourmand Awards, with the Best in the World announced in Paris June 3-6, 2021. All those on the Winter Harvest list already have the right to the Winners certificates and stickers.
We have approximately 20% more entries this year than last year. The cookbook activity has been intense in 2020, a consequence of the pandemic and confinement. There is much digital publishing, but print is also increasing. We created the new category A01 for Covid-19 cookbooks.
Take extreme care and keep safe, protect the others, and yourself.
Best wishes
Edouard Cointreau
www.cookbookfair.com
Winter 12 Months Harvest - November 23
Total= 1288 from 175 countries
Final list for nominees for Best in the World 2021 competition
This year we had entries from 215 countries and regions. There are 193 countries in the United Nations. For the Finalists, we have considerably reduced from the entries the number of countries, and entries. There are now Finalists for Food from a total of 134 countries (116 UN members) and regions. There are 40 countries and regions for Drinks.
There are 100 categories for Food, 30 for Drinks. This is necessary to reflect the wide diversity of world food culture. It gives a chance to many countries to win in a category. In the Olympic games, they have 303 competitions/categories for 202 countries. On our list our finalists, we have 130 categories for 134 countries and regions. In total, there are 1372 entries now finalist, 1144 for food, and 228 for drinks. This represents less than 3% of the total of similar books and other formats published and available every year. It is a major achievement to be on this list of Finalists. There are 67% of the categories with 12 or less finalists, 26% with 13 to 19 finalists, and 7% with 20 to 30 finalists.
Food Culture is now taken very seriously by most governments and individuals. Food is at the heart of the issues of our future, collectively and individually.Trends in Food and Drinks culture are now global, everywhere in the world, which this list of finalists makes very clear. We see six major trends, combining or competing at a different pace in different countries, with change accelerating:
We have 19 categories (15%) exclusively for digital, with 195 digital entries now finalists (15%). You can find in the list of Finalists approximately 50 free Food and Wine PDF to download, selected for their quality, nearly all produced by public institutions. Unfortunately, they tend to disappear quickly, so do not be surprised if you cannot find them. We cannot help. See categories A06 for FAO, UN-IOM, UNDEP-Canada, UNESCO, UNWTO or B17, W1-12. For cookbook professional online newsletters, see B03.
The Best in the World will be announced in Yantai, China at the Gourmand Awards annual event May 25-28, 2018. The top 3 in each category will have the right to Best in the World. We do not announce results before the event. It is not necessary to attend to win. Apart from the honors at the event, the major opportunity is meeting the other participants, for business and pleasure. As previous participants have written, it may be the best four days of your life if you participate. Guests from over 60 countries had already indicated they wanted to come as of January 12, 2018. There are among them 81 guests who have already been at our events in Yantai. They come back even if they have no entry in the competition, it is so important for networking, business, and food culture.