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Winners of the Guild of Food Writers Annual Awards announced

September 9, 2023

By Angela Green

The winners of the Guild of Food Writers Annual Awards were announced last week at a ceremony in front of an audience of the UK’s best-known food writers and broadcasters at the Royal Institution’s world-famous theatre.

Lifetime Achievement Award Ken Hom CBE

Compered by Saturday Kitchen presenter and chef Matt Tebbutt, the Awards, now in their 26th year, champion excellence in the industry, recognising the achievements of current and emerging food and drink writers, broadcasters and personalities.

The winners, across 16 categories, were selected by a diverse panel of Guild members and include Ken Hom CBE for a lifetime achievement award; Mark Hix for work published in the Telegraph Magazine; Jimi Famurewa for restaurant writing; and Claire Ruston in the newcomer category for Two packets of Bourbons and a packet of Hobnobs: The food journey of a Brit in Bulgaria.

The Guild’s patron Delia Smith presented a special award to #CookForUKRAINE and specifically to Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina’s remarkable work in supporting people and children impacted by the conflict in Ukraine.

Full list of award winners:

Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Ken Hom CBE

First Book

  • A Dark History of Sugar by Neil Buttery

Food Book

  • English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss

Food Podcast or Broadcast

  • The Full English by Lewis Bassett and Forest DLG

Food Magazine or Section

  • Pit Magazine: Edited by Helen Graves

Food Writing

  • Bee Wilson for work published in The Guardian and The London Review of Books

General Cookbook

  • Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many by Jeremy Lee

International or Regional Cookbook

  • The Nutmeg Trail by Eleanor Ford

Investigative Food Work

  • The Great Plant-Based Con by Jayne Buxton

Online Food Writer

  • Bald Flavours by Sam Wilson

Recipe Writing

  • Mark Hix for work published in the Telegraph Magazine

Restaurant Writing

  • Jimi Famurewa for work published in Evening Standard

Specialist or Single Subject Cookbook

  • Tomato by Claire Thomson

Drinks Writing

  • Mark Dredge for articles published on goodbeerhunting.com and in Ferment Magazine

Drinks Book

  • Cider Planet by Claude Jolicoeur

Self-Publishing

  • Fifty Years – Kinloch Lodge by Claire Macdonald, Jordan Webb and Alisha Fernandez Miranda

Newcomer

  • Claire Ruston

Special Award

  • #CookForUKRAINE

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