Awards 2018

The Chairman and the trustees of the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards are pleased to announce the winners for 2018 award.

• How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places
  by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley)
  
  

• The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
  by Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay (Ten Speed Press)
  
  

• Together: Our Community Cookbook
  by The Hubb Community Kitchen (Ebury Press)
  
  

• Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
  by Caroline Eden (Quadrille Publishing)
  
  

The winners each receive £2000, while the Special Commendation and the John Avery award is worth £1500.

This year's shortlisted authors - selected from over 150 entries - also included:
First, Catch: Study of a Spring Meal by Thom Eagle, Quadrille Publishing
Lateral Cooking by Niki Segnit, Bloomsbury Publishing
MOB Kitchen: Feed 4 or more for under £10 by Ben Lebus, Pavilion Books
Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture by Matt Goulding Hardie, Grant Publishing
Pie and Mash Down the Roman Road by Melanie McGrath, Two Roads
Shetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World by James & Tom Morton, Quadrille Publishing
Red & White: An Unquenchable Thirst for Wine by Oz Clarke, Little Brown Book Group
Amber Revolution: How the World Learned to Love Orange Wine by Simon J Woolf, Morning Claret Productions
Flawless: Understanding Faults in Wine by Jamie Goode, University of California Press
Vineyards, Rocks & Soils: The Wine Lover's Guide to Geology by Alex Maltman, Oxford University Press
The Life of Tea: : A Journey to the World's Finest Teas by Michael Freeman & Timothy d'Offay, Mitchell Beazley