IACP Announces 2015 Food Writing Award Winners

The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) held its annual awards ceremony earlier this evening, and Food & Wine magazine — and several contributors to the publication — took home awards. Food52.com, the crowd-sourced recipe website by former NYT editor Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, won best culinary website of the year. Chef Sean Brock won Best First Book for Heritage; chef Christopher Kostow won Best Cookbook of the Year for A New Napa Cuisine. See all the winners, below.

IACP Bert Greene Awards Finalists

Publication of the Year

Food & Wine Magazine
Dana Cowin, Editor-in-Chief

Personal Essays/Memoirs

Kate Krader
"Are Big Flavors Destroying the American Palate?"
Food & Wine, May 2014

Culinary Writing About Beverages

Ray Isle
"Wine's Nastiest Feud"
Food & Wine, October 2014

Instructional Culinary Writing

Ivy Manning
"Go Wild!"
Fine Cooking Magazine

Culinary Writing That Makes A Difference

Jane Black
"The Guru of Grass"
EatingWell

Culinary Travel Writing

Francis Lam
"The Last Place on Earth"
Bon Appétit

Culinary Based Column

Kristen Miglore
"Genius Recipes"
Food52

Narrative Culinary Writing

Margo True
"The Blacksmith Cooks"
Sunset Magazine

IACP Digital Media Awards Finalists

The Digital Media Awards honor excellence and trendsetters in both traditional and emerging communications technologies, including culinary blogs, video, audio, and other digital forms.

Best Culinary Website

Amanda Hesser & Merrill Stubbs
Editors: Kristen Miglore, Kenzi Wilbur, Marian Bull, Sarah Jampel
Food52 "Food52.com"

Narrative Culinary Blog

Naz Deravian
Bottom Of The Pot - Adventures In Cooking Persian Food And Beyond "bottomofthepot.com"

Photo Based Culinary Blog

Nik Sharma
A Brown Table "abrowntable.com"

Best Culinary Video Series

Gabriel Taraboulsy
"The Grill Iron"
Taste Made

Single Food Focused Video

Kyle Orosz & the Editors of Food52
Food52
How to Make Banoffee Pie
Food52 "http://instagram.com/p/uLim0IN-c4/?modal=tru"

Culinary Audio Series

Digital Media Awards Winner-Culinary Audio Series: Nicola Twilley & Cynthia Graber Gastropod The Golden Spoon "http://gastropod.com/episode-1-the-golden-spoon/"

IACP Food Photography Awards Winners

Food Photograph of the Year

Jignesh Jhaveri

People's Choice

Jan Kalish

Special Cookbook Awards

People's Choice

Vegetarian Dinner Parties
by Bruce Weinstein &
Mark Scarbrough
Editor: Elissa Altman &
Dervla Kelly
(Rodale Books)

Culinary Classics

Book of Great Cookies
by: Maida Heatter
Year: 1977
Publisher: Knopf

The Greens Cookbook
by: Deborah Madison
Year: 1987
Publisher: Bantam Books

The Making of a Cook
by: Madeleine Kamman
Year: 1978
Publisher: Atheneum

Greene on Greens
by: Bert Greene
Year: 1984
Publisher: Workman Publishing Co.

The Taste of Country Cooking
by: Edna Lewis
Year: 1977
Publisher: Knopf

Historical Cookbook Award

Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera
by: Terence Scully
Year: 1570
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Cookbook Awards

American

Down South: Bourbon, Pork, Gulf Shrimp & Second Helpings of Everything
by Donald Link and Paula Disbrowe
Editor: Rica Allannic
(Clarkson Potter)

Baking: Savory or Sweet

The Baking Bible
by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Editor: Stephanie Fletcher
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Beverage/ Reference/ Technical

Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
by Adam Danforth
Editor:  Carleen Madigan
(Storey Publishing)

Chefs and Restaurants

Bar Tartine: Techniques and Recipes
by Nicolaus Balla and Cortney Burns
Editor: Bill LeBlond
(Chronicle Books)

Children, Youth and Family

FutureChefs: Recipes by Tomorrow's Cooks Across the Nation and the World
by Ramin Ganeshram
Editor: Dervla Kelly & Elissa Altman
(Rodale Books)

Compilations

The Great Outdoors Cookbook: Adventures in Cooking Under the Open Sky
by Elaine Johnson and Margo True
Editors: Elaine Johnson and Margo True
(Oxmoor House)

Culinary History

Precious Cargo: How Foods from the Americas Changed the World
by David DeWitt
Editor: Jack Shoemaker
(Counterpoint Press)

Culinary Travel

Cyprus: A Culinary Journey
by Rita Henss
Editor: Marianne Salentin-Träger
(C&C Publishing)

IACP Cookbook Award Winner-Julia Child First Book:
Heritage
by Sean Brock
Editor: Judy Pray 
(Artisan)

Food Matters

Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Way to Grow Healthy Food, Build Thriving Communities, and Give Back to the Earth
by Daron Joffe with Susan Puckett
Editor: Dervla Kelly
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang)

General

Twelve Recipes
by Cal Peternell
Editor: Cassie Jones
(HarperCollins Publishers)

Health & Special Diet

At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen
by Amy Chaplin
Editor: Sara Bercholz
(Roost Books)

International

Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die
by Diane Kochilas
Editor: Dervla Kelly & Elissa Altman
(Rodale Books)

Literary Food Writing

In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey
by Samuel Fromartz
Editor: Kathryn Court
(Viking)

Photography

The Slanted Door
Photographed by: Ed Anderson
by Charles Phan
Editor: Jenny Wapner
(Ten Speed Press)

Single Subject

Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry
by Cathy Barrow
Editor: Maria Guarnaschelli
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Wine, Beer and Spirits

Proof: The Science of Booze
by Adam Rogers
Editor: Courtney Young
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Global Design

A New Napa Cuisine
by Christopher Kostow
Editor: Julie Bennett
(Ten Speed Press)

E-Cookbook

Tutka Bay Lodge: Coastal Cuisine from the Wilds of Alaska
by Kirsten Dixon and Mandy Dixon
Editor: Kathy Howard
(Alaska Northwest Books)

Special Cookbook Awards

Jane Grigson Award

Liquid Intelligence
by Dave Arnold
Editor: Maria Guarnaschelli
(W.W. Norton & Company)

Design Award

Relae: A Book of Ideas
by Christian F. Puglisi
Editor: Emily Timberlake
(Ten Speed Press)

Judge's Choice

Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day
by Leanne Brown
Editor: Dan Lazin
(Self-published)

Judge's Choice

North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland
by Gunnar Karl Gíslason and Jody Eddy
Editors: Emily Timberlake and Jenny Wapner
(Ten Speed Press)

Cookbook of the Year

A New Napa Cuisine
by Christopher Kostow
Editor: Julie Bennett
(Ten Speed Press)