Two of Undercover Utopia’s books have won the GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2009 awards in India and made the grade for qualification for the "GOURMAND BEST IN THE WORLD" COMPETITION. The books to have won in India are Big Bee’s Secret honey recipes and Sangria-A recipe for love. While the former has won the Best Desserts Book, Best Cookbook Cover and Best Food Sector Corporate Book awards for India, the latter has won the Best Food Literature Book award. The world competition, which will be part of the PARIS COOKBOOK FAIR, will take place on February 11, 2010 in Paris.
Big Bee’s Secret Honey Recipes, is essentially a cook book which has an exhaustive compilation of a series of honey-based recipes by Master chef Komal Taneja. The book is about using honey as a healthy replacement for sugar thereby avoiding all its ill effects. It drives home the point that honey has, for ages, been the natural health food, providing you unbelievable amounts of energy and amazing fitness. Besides having lower calories than sugar, honey is also packed with natural vitamins, minerals, proteins and antioxidants.
Sangria – A recipe for love, is a distinctive concept, as it is the first ever cookery book in Fiction form. The book is authored by Manuela Requena, an amateur chef and author from Brisbane, Australia with Spanish antecedents. Manuela has created a beautiful story about the essence of life which includes elements of Romance and Passion woven around 25 Magic Spanish Recipes.
The World Cookbook Awards, were first instituted in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau and were renamed as the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2001.
Some of the objectives of the awards are:-
* To help readers find the best out of the 26,000 food and wine books produced every year
* To help publishers with international rights to translate and distribute food and wine books
* To increase knowledge of, and respect for, food and wine culture, which promotes peace
As per the procedure, cookbooks are nominated and proclaimed winners nationally after which they compete for the world title. The international jury for all languages and the Best in the World comprises of -
* Edouard Cointreau, Chairman of the Awards Committee
* Dun Gifford, President of the Oldways Exchange and Trust Foundation (USA)
* Jean Jacques Ratier, Commissaire du Salon International du Livre Gourmand, Mayor of Sorges (France)
* Bo Masser, Director of Booktown Grythyttan (Sweden)
Cook books are nominated in all languages and from all over the world from places as far away as China, Japan, Brazil, Canada and the US.
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