Guild of Food Writers Awards Shortlists announced

Industry experts such as Heston Blumenthal, Jamie Oliver and Mark Hix have been shortlisted for this year's Guild of Food Writers Awards.

There are twelve categories, each judged by a panel of five judges drawn from the membership of the Guild.

The judging panel includes Italian food expert Anna Del Conte, food writers Glynn Christian and celebrated chefs Galton Blackiston and Silvena Rowe.

The list is as follows:

Food Book of the Year
Heston Blumenthal, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (published by Bloomsbury)
Christine McFadden, Pepper: The Spice That Changed The World (published by Absolute Press)
Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: A Guid to Britain's Traditional Fruit and Vegetables (published by Random House)
Bee Wilson, Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats (published by John Murray)

Cookery Book of the Year
Xanthe Clay, Recipes To Know By Heart (published by Mitchell Beazley)
Simon Daley and Roshan Hirani, Cooking with my Indian mother-in-law (published by Pavilion)
Mark Hix, British Seasonal Food (published by Quadrille)

The Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel
Fuchsia Dunlop, Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper (published by Ebury)
Stefan Gates, In The Danger Zone (published by Ebury) and BBC Four's Cooking in the Danger Zone
Kevin Gould for With Love From ... features published in Waitrose Food Illustrated

The Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food
BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme: Food and Farming Awards
Mark Hix for Mark's Kitchen articles published in Country Life magazine
Clarissa Hyman for articles published in Country Living magazine
Guy Watson and Jane Baxter, Riverford Farm Cook Book (published by Fourth Estate)

The Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing
BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme: The Rice Crisis
Channel Four's Jamie's Ministry of Food (Fresh One Productions)
Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte, The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (published by Earthscan)

The Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating
BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme: Nutritionism
Charlie Ayers, Eat Yourself Smart (published by Dorling Kindersley)
Angela Nilsen for articles published in BBC Good Food magazine

The Jeremy Round Award for the Best First Book
Anthony Demetre, Today's Special (published by Quadrille)
Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook (published by Ebury)
Guy Watson and Jane Baxter, Riverford Farm Cook Book (published by Fourth Estate)

The Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year
Annie Bell for articles published in Waitrose Food Illustrated
Diana Henry for articles published in the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine
Elisabeth Luard for articles published in Country Living magazine

Restaurant Reviewer of the Year
Emma Sturgess for reviews published in Metro
Jay Rayner for reviews published in The Observer magazine
John Walsh for reviews published in The Independent magazine

Food Journalist of the Year
Katy Salter for articles published in Waitrose Food Illustrated
Bee Wilson for articles published in the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine

New Media Award
Helen Yuet Ling Pang for the World Foodie Guide
Elisabeth Winkler for Real Food Lover
Tim Hayward for his blog on The Guardian and The Observer's Word of Mouth

Food Broadcast Award
BBC1's Gastronuts (Objective Productions)
BBC Radio 4's You and Yours: Lunch
BBC2's The Supersizers Go ... (Silver River Productions)

Words: Maria Bracken

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