IACP Cookbook Award Winners Announced

Posted on May 2, 2002

The winners for the 2002 IACP Cookbook Awards have been announced. This year's Cookbook of the Year award went to Peter Reinhart for The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread (Ten Speed Press). Awards are also given for specific categories including Food Reference/Technical Category, Health and Special Diet Category, Literary Food Writing Category and Wine, Beer or Spirits Category.

The IACP Cookbook Awards annually celebrate the year's most outstanding food and beverage publications. The awards program (originally Tastemaker's) was created to encourage and promote quality and creativity in cookbook writing and publishing and to expand awareness of culinary literature.

2002 IACP Cookbook Awards

IACP Cookbook of the Year
The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart (Ten Speed Press)

American Category
The America's Test Kitchen Cookbook by the Editors of Cooks Illustrated (Boston Common Press)

Bread, Other Baking and Sweets Category
The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart (Ten Speed Press)

Chef & Restaurant Category
Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (Alfred A. Knopf)

First Book Category: Julia Child Award
Recipes from Home by Barbara Shinn and David Page (Artisan)

Food Reference & Technical Category
Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

General Category
A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider (Artisan)

Health & Special Diet Category
Healthy 1-2-3: The Ulitmate Three-Ingredient Cookbook by Rozanne Gold (Stewart, Tabori & Chang)

International Category
Savoring India: Recipes and Reflections on Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni (Weldon Owen)

Literary Food Category
On rue Tatin by Susan Hermann Loomis (Broadway Books)

Single Subject Category
How to Grill by Steven Raichlen (Workman Publishing)

Wine, Beer, or Spirits Category
Bordeaux: People, Power and Politics by Stephen Brook (Mitchell Beazley)

The Design Award
Van Gogh's Table at the Aberge Ravoux designed by Birgitta Ralston (Artisan)

The Jane Grigson Award *Two winners*
Bordeaux: People, Power, and Politics by Stephen Brook (Mitchell Beazley)

The Glorious Foods of Greece by Diane Kochilas (William Morrow)