IACP Cookbook Awards: 2009 Finalists Announced
This Tuesday I began hearing rumors that the nominations for the International Association of Culinary Professionals had been announced. I didn't have any luck getting a complete list of 2009 finalists, but finally, late this afternoon, the list went public.
Ten Speed Press led the lineup with a total of five nominations, but painfully absent was one of their most buzzed-about cookbooks of 2008, Grant Achatz's groundbreaking Alinea. Artisan, publisher of Thomas Keller's Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (short-listed for Food Photography & Styling and Single Subject), was next with five nominations, and Houghton MIfflin Harcourt with three. Only three titles from our own editors' list of Top 10 Cookbooks of 2008 made the cut, and I would've bet big that our No. 1 pick, David Tanis' terrific A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, would've been among the Artisan nominations.
As in past years, due to the international nature of the awards, some of the titles aren't readily available on Amazon.com. Four Star Restaurant Marketing Cookbook and Ciderland aren't in our catalog and there's an international edition of Karen Martini: Cooking at Home coming in June that's available for pre-order. (I think I'm linking to the correct edition of Techniques of Healthy Cooking (3rd Edition) but it has a 2007 pub-date which seems odd.) With all of the Food Network-stamped cookbooks being published each year, only one made the cut:Ellie Krieger's The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life. And how the good people at the IACP could find only two worthy titles for the International category I'll never know. And, with all due respect to the author, I'm still scratching my head that Do It For Less! Wedding: How to Create Your Dream Wedding Without Breaking the Bank made the cut in the competitive General category.
As for Cookbook of the Year? It alredy feels like a very Thomas Keller year, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Baked, A16: Food + Wine, and Fat. Good luck to all the finalists! The winners will be announced on Saturday, April 4 at a gala reception in Denver, CO.
--BTP
2009 IACP Finalists
American
Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited by Arthur Schwartz
Bon Appetit, Y'all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations by Virginia Willis
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed
Baking
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
The Modern Baker: Time Saving Techniques for Breads, Tarts, Pies, Cakes, and Cookies by Nick Malgieri
The Art and Soul of Baking by Sur La Table and Cindy Mushet
Chefs and Restaurants
Chanterelle: The Story and Recipes of a Restaurant Classic by Dave Waltuck and Andrew Friedman
At the Crillon and at Home: Recipes by Jean-Francois Piege by Jean Francois Piege, Patrick Mikanowsk, and Grant Symon
On the Line by Eric Ripert
Compilations
Cooking with Les Dames d'Escoffier: At Home with the Women Who Shape the Way We Eat and Drink edited by Marcella Rosene with Pat Mozersky
The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh by Barbara Fairchild
The Culinary Institute of America Cookbook: A Collection of Our Favorite Recipes for the Home Chef by the Culinary Institute of America
First Book (The Julia Child Award)
A16: Food + Wine by Nate Appleman and Shelley Lindgren
Yolele! Recipes from the Heart of Senegal by Pierre Thiam
Puff by Martha Holmberg
Food Photography and Styling
Chanterelle: The Story and Recipes of a Restaurant Classic by Dave Waltuck and Andrew Friedman
Karen Martini: Cooking at Home by Karen Martini
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide by Thomas Keller
Food Reference and Technical
The Science of Good Food: The Ultimate Reference on How Cooking Works by David Joachim and Andrew Schloss
Four Star Restaurant Marketing Cookbook by Linda Drake
Food Wine Budapest by Carolyn Banfalvi
General
The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper by Lynne Rosetto Kasper and Sally Swift
Do It For Less! Wedding: How to Create Your Dream Wedding Without Breaking the Bank by Denise Vivaldo
Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, Recipes by Sur La Table and Marie Simmons
Health and Special Diet
The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger
The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great by Pam Anderson
Techniques of Healthy Cooking (3rd Edition) by the Culinary Institute of America
International
Olives and Oranges: Recipes and Flavor Secrets from Italy, Spain, Cyprus, and Beyond by Sara Jenkins and Mindy Fox
Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Literary Food Writing
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe
Raising Steaks: The Life and Time sof American Beef by Betty Fussell
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
Single Subject
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient by Jennifer Mclagan
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide by Thomas Keller
Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special Occasions by Jacques Torres
Wine, Beer, or Spirits
Ciderland by James Crowden
The Beer Book edited by Tim Hampson
Artisanal Cocktails: Drinks Inspired by the Seasons from the Bar at Cyrus by Scott Beattie
maggie (p&c) on March 06, 2009 at 09:33 AM
Oh, how I covet all of those...
Gregg on March 10, 2009 at 07:09 AM
Brad:
Reading your post re: the IACP cookbook awards brought two things to mind I thought I might share:
"I didn't have any luck getting a complete list of 2009 finalists,"
The easiest way to get a list of such things is to join the organization. Membership does, as they say, have its privileges. I'd bet the big bosses at Amazon would be willing to spring for the cost of joining, especially since it could help you gain access to so many other cookbook authors. If not, it's probably a tax write-off for a culinary blogger.
"And how the good people at the IACP could find only two worthy titles for the International category I'll never know."
The short answer there is that it is up to the publisher and/or author of a book to submit it to the IACP for the annual book awards; the IACP doesn't go looking for worthy books.
foodie pam on March 15, 2009 at 09:10 AM
For a guide to the IACP nominated books that includes links to reviews of the books and recipes from the books see go to: http://www.projectfoodie.com/spotlights/cookbooks/iacp-cookbook-award-finalists-guide-reviews-recipes-voting-author-blogging-and-more.html