2008 IACP Cookbook Awards Winners

Cookbook of the Year

Fish Forever: The Definitive Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy, Delicious, and Environmentally Sustainable Seafood
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Editor: Justin Schwartz

American Category

The Pastry Queen Christmas: Big-Hearted Holiday Entertaining, Texas Style
Authors: Rebecca Rather, Alison Oresman
Editor: Julie Bennett
Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Bread, Other Baking and Sweets Category

Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers Authors: Daniel Leader, Lauren Chattman
Editor: Maria Guarnaschelli
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

Chefs and Restaurants Category

Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
Authors: Masaharu Morimoto
Editor: Anja Schmidt and Susan Wyler
Publisher: DK Publishing

Compilations Category

Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Techniques for the Artisan Confectioner
Authors: The Culinary Institute of America and Peter P. Greweling, CMB
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Editor: Pamela Chirls

First Book: The Julia Child Award Category

Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
Author: Masaharu Morimoto
Editors: Anja Schmidt and Susan Wyler
Publisher: DK Publishing

Food Photography and Styling Category

Good Spirits: Recipes, Revelations, Refreshments, and Romance, Shaken and Served with a Twist
Photographers: Melissa Punch
Stylist: Brian Preston-Campbell
Publisher: The Harvard Common Press
Editor: Valerie Cimino

Food Reference/Technical Category

Food: The History of Taste
Authors: Paul Freedman
Editor: Sheila Levine
Publisher: University of California Press

General Category

Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You A Better Cook
Authors: Jamie Oliver
Editor: Will Schwalbe
Publisher: Hyperion Books

Health and Special Diets Category

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
Authors: Mark Bittman
Editor: Linda Ingroia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

International Category

Turquoise
Authors: Greg and Lucy Malouf
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Editor: Mary Small

Literary Food Writing Category

Julia Child
Author: Laura Shapiro
Publisher: Viking

Single Subject Category

Fish Forever: The Definitive Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy, Delicious, and Environmentally Sustainable Seafood
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Editor: Justin Schwartz

Wine, Beer or Spirits Category

The World Atlas of Wine
Authors: Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, Distributed by Sterling
Editor: Steve Magnuson

Jane Grigson Award
(Tie)

Beans: A History
Author: Ken Albala
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Editor: Julia Hall

To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science and the Battle for the Wine Bottle
Author: George M. Taber
Publisher: Scribner
Editor: Brant Rumble

Design Award

Egg
Publisher: Flammarion (Distributed by Rizzoli)