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We welcome you to the André Simon Food and Drink book awards longlist for 2021
The longlisted food books for 2021 are:
The longlisted drink books for 2021 are:
We are delighted to announce the 2021 André Simon longlist of books in the run up to Christmas chosen from 160 submissions. Each year the André Simon Trustees are guided by independent assessors. This year they are Yemisi Aribisala, a Nigerian born writer and artist for the food books and wine expert Rose Murray Brown MW for the drink books. A shortlist will be announced in the New Year.
The longlisted food books for 2021 are:
- A Curious Absence Of Chickens
by Sophie Grigson (Headline Publishing Group) - Amber & Rye
by Zuza Zak (Murdoch Books) - An A-Z Of Pasta
by Rachel Roddy (Fig Tree) - Baking With Fortitude
by Dee Rettali (Bloomsbury Publishing) - Eating To Extinction
by Dan Saladino (Jonathan Cape) - Freekeh - Wild Wheat & Ancient Grains
by Ruth Nieman (Prospect Books) - Grand Dishes
by Iska Lupton & Anastasia Miari (Unbound) - Herb
by Mark Diacono (Quadrille) - One Pot, Pan, Planet
by Anna Jones (4th Estate) - Ripe Figs
by Yasmin Khan (Bloomsbury Publishing) - Sambal Shiok
by Mandy Yin (Quadrille) - Taste: My Life In Food
by Stanley Tucci (Fig Tree) - The Latin American Cookbook
by Virgilo Martinez (Phaidon) - The Modern Preserver's Kitchen
by Kylee Newton (Quadrille) - Truffle Hound
by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)
The longlisted drink books for 2021 are:
- Cider Country
by James Crowden (William Collins) - Foot Trodden
by Simon J Woolf & Ryan Opaz (Morning Claret Productions) - Inside Burgundy
by Jasper Morris MW (Berry Bros. & Rudd Press) - On California
by Various (Academie Du Vin Library) - Oxford Companion To Spirits And Cocktails
by David Wondrich With Noah Rothbaum (Oxford University Press) - The South America Wine Guide
by Amanda Barnes (The South America Wine Guide) - The Wines Of Santorini
by Yiannis Karakasis MW (P & J Veritas Ike) - The Wines Of The Rhone
by Matt Walls (Infinite Ideas) - Wine Science
by Jamie Goode (Octopus Books/Hachette UK)
NICK LANDER
CHAIRMAN
"2021 saw the most impressive number of books in both the food and drink categories, selected from 160 entries. Offerings span from the A-Z of pasta to saving endangered foods, from the wines of Santorini to the ancient origins of cider, showcasing both new and established writers. Our congratulations and thanks to the authors, publishers and everybody involved."
Nick Lander, Chair of the André Simon Memorial Fund
2020 Award Winners
Food:
Red Sands
by Caroline Eden
Drink:
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia
by Max Allen
The John Avery award:
Salmon
by Mark Kurlansky
Special Commendation:
Nose Dive
by Harold McGee
