Past Winners

• 2023
• Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis - Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape
• Jon Bonné - The New French Wine: Redefining the World's Greatest Wine Culture
• Jane Lopes & Jonathan Ross (John Avery Award) - How to Drink Australian: An Essential Modern Wine Book
• Emiko Davies (Special Commendation) - Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking

• 2022
• Jeremy Lee - COOKING: Simply and well, for one or many
• Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre - Imperial Wine
• Mo Wilde (John Avery Award) - The Wilderness Cure
• Kate Reid (Special Commendation) - Lune: Croissants All Day, All Night

• 2021
• Dee Rettali - Baking with Fortitude
• Jasper Morris MW - Inside Burgundy
• Amanda Barnes (John Avery Award) - The South America Wine Guide
• Dan Saladino (Jonathan Cape) (Special Commendation) - Eating to Extinction

• 2020
• Caroline Eden - Red Sands
• Max Allen - Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia
• Mark Kurlansky (John Avery Award) - Salmon
• Harold McGee (Special Commendation) - Nose Dive

• 2019
• Josh Niland - The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think
• Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson - The World Atlas of Wine (8th Edition)
• Tim Anderson (John Avery Award) - Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook
• Musa Dağdeviren (Special Commendation) - The Turkish Cookbook

• 2018
• Diana Henry - How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places
• Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay - The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
• Caroline Eden (John Avery Award) - Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light
• The Hubb Community Kitchen (Special Commendation) - Together: Our Community Cookbook

• 2017
• Stephen Harris - The Sportsman
• Peter Liem - Champagne
• Dave Broom (John Avery Award) - The Way of Whisky
• Victoria Moore (Special Commendation) - The Wine Dine Dictionary

• 2016
• Fuchsia Dunlop - Land of Fish and Rice
• John Szabo MS - Volcanic Wines
• Yemisi Aribisala (John Avery Award) - Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
• Ruby Tandoh (Special Commendation) - Flavour: Eat What You Love

• 2015
• Rachel Roddy - Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome
• Suzanne Mustacich - Thirsty Dragon
• Jamie Oliver (John Avery Award) - Everyday Super Food
• Bee Wilson (Special Commendation) - First Bite

• 2014
• Mark Diacono - A Year at Otter Farm
• Wink Lorch - Jura Wine
• Paul Keers & Charles Jennings (John Avery Award) - Sediment
• Julian Baggini (Special Commendation) - The Virtues of the Table

• 2013
• Rory O'Connell - Master It
• Bill Nesto and Frances Di Savino - The World of Sicilian Wine
• Simon Hopkinson (John Avery Award) - Simon Hopkinson Cooks
• Maria Elia (Special Commendation) - Smashing Plates

• 2012
• Caroline Conran - Sud de France
• Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding & José Vouillamoz - Wine Grapes
• Neal Martin (John Avery Award) - Pomerol
• Jason C Anthony (Special Commendation) - Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day and other stories of Antarctic Cuisine

• 2011
• Dan Lepard - Short and Sweet
• Garrett Oliver (editor) - The Oxford Companion to Beer
• Jesus Barquin, Luis Gutierrez, Victor de la Serna (Special Commendation) - Finest Wines of Rioja

• 2010
• Niki Segnit - The Flavour Thesaurus
• Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
• The Edible Series (Special Commendation) - Reaktion Books

• 2009
• Darina Allen - The Forgotten Skills of Cooking
• Carla Capalbo - Collio
• Richard Wrangham (Special Commendation) - Catching Fire

• 2008
• Peter Brears - Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
• James Crowden - Ciderland
• Michel Roux (Special Commendation) - Pastry

• 2007
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher - The River Cottage Fish Book
• John Dickie (special commendation) - Delizia
• Philip Williamson and David Moore - Wine Behind the Label
• Charles Metcalfe and Kathryn McWhirter (special commendation) - The Wine and Food Lovers Guide to Portugal

• 2006
• Andrew Whitley - Bread Matters
• Stephen Brook - Bordeaux - Medoc and Graves
• Mark Hix (special commendation) - British Regional Food

• 2005
• Claudia Roden - Arabesque
• Hugh Johnson - Wine: A Life Uncorked
• Katherine Hughes (special commendation) - The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton
• John Livingstone-Learmonth (special commendation) - The Wines of Northern Rhone

• 2004
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - The River Cottage Meat Book
• Nicholas Faith - Cognac
• Felicity Lawrence (Special Commendation) - Not On the Label
• Charles Clover (Special Commendation) - The End of the Line

• 2003
• Erik Millstone and Tim Lang - Atlas of Food
• Richard Mayson - The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal
• Nigel Slater (Special Commendation) - Toast

• 2002
• David Thompson - Thai Food
• Andrew Jefford - The New France
• Colin Spencer (Special Commendation) - British Food

• 2001
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - The River Cottage Cookbook
• Stephen Skelton - The Wines of Britain and Ireland
• Bennett Alan Weinber and Bonnie K Bealer - The World of Caffeine
• Tom Jaine (Special Award)

• 2000
• Nigel Slater - Appetite
• Michael Schuster - Essential Winetasting
• Sue Shepherd (Special Commendation) - Pickled, Potted and Canned

• 1999
• Fergus Henderson - Nose to Tail Eating
• John Burnett - Liquid Pleasures
• Mark Grant (Special Commendation) - Roman Cookery
• Larry Zuckerman (Special Commendation) - The Potato: How it Changed History
• Alan Davidson (Special Award) - The Oxford Companion to Food

• 1998
• Ken Hom - Easy Family Dishes
• Max Allen - Red & White
• Stephen Brook (Special Commendation) - Pauillac

• 1997
• Claudia Roden - The Book of Jewish Food
• Clive Coates - Co^te d?fOr
• Richard Hosking - A Dictionary of Japanese Food

• 1996
• Maria Kaneva-Johnson - The Melting Pot ?| Balkan Food and Cookery
• Janet Mendel - Traditional Spanish Cooking
• Sophie D Coe and Michael D Coe (Special Commendation) - The True History of Chocolate

• 1995
• Rick Stein - Taste of the Sea
• Anthony Hanson - Burgundy
• Remington Norman - Rhone Renaissance
• Robert Nield (Special Commendation) - The English, The French and The Oyster

• 1994
• Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham - Roast Chicken and Other Stories
• Jancis Robinson - The Oxford Companion to Wine
• Elizabeth David, Ed Jill Norman - Harvest of the Cold Months

• 1993
• Sri Owen - The Rice Book
• Michael Jackson - Beer Companion
• Henrietta Green (Special Commendation) - Food Lovers Guide to Britain

• 1992
• Pierre Koffman - La Tante Claire
• Remington Norman - Great Domaines of Burgundy
• Richard Mayson (Special Commendation) - Portugal's Wines and Winemakers

• 1991
• Arabella Boxer - A Visual Feast
• Oz Clarke - New Classic Wines
• John and Sally McKenna (Special Commendation) - The Bridgestone Irish food Guide

• 1990
• Jill Norman - The Complete Book of Spices
• Burton Anderson - The Wine Atlas of Italy

• 1989
• Patrick Rance - The French Cheese Book
• Hugh Johnson - The Story of Wine

• 1988
• Peter Graham - Classic Cheese Cookery
• Tom Stevenson - Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopaedia

• 1987
• Henrietta Green - British Food Finds
• Stephen Brook - Liquid Gold: Dessert Wines of the World

• 1986
• Harold McGee - On Food and Cooking
• Jancis Robinson - Vines, Grapes and Wines

• 1985
• Hannah Wright - Soups
• Nicholas Belfrage - Life Beyond Lambrusco

• 1984
• Yan-Kit So - Classic Chinese Cookbook
• Rosemary George - The Wines of Chablis

• 1983
• Roger Phillips - Wild Food
• Hugh Johnson - Wine Companion

• 1982
• Jane Grigson - Fruit Book
• Barbara Maher - Cakes
• David Peppercorn - Bordeaux

• 1981
• Anne Willan - French Regional Cooking
• John R Hume and Michael Moss - The Making of Scotch Whisky

• 1980
• Marcella Hazan - The Classic Italian Cookbook
• Marika Hanbury Tenison - Cooking with Vegetables
• Michael Broadbent - The Great Vintage Wine Book

• 1979
• Josceline Dimbleby - The Book of Puddings, Desserts and Savouries
• Joanna Smith - The New English Vineyard

• 1978
• Alan Davidson - North Atlantic Seafood
• Jane Grigson - Vegetable Book
• Nicholas Faith - The Winemasters