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2010 Worlds Best Cookbook
Mar. 4th, 2011 10:08 amThe cookbook my sister co-authored has won the Best Cookbook in the World for 2010 at the
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards!!!
Here's a copy of the press release.
Here is the book's Facebook page.
This is a pretty big deal. It's not your usual cookbook - it's also a bit of a manifesto, attempting to bring the cuisine of the South Pacific to foreign visitors. For the most part, Pacific resorts have been feeding tourists crappy frozen and imported things, focusing on the familiar while ignoring the amazing local cuisine. If this can be changed, the islands gain both a new source of tourist revenue and something to make tourism itself more attractive. Everybody wins.
Unfortunately, with Christchurch completely wrecked by the earthquake, my sister was unable to attend the awards gala in Paris this week. :-( What a bummer, not being there for the crowning moment of your whole life's work!
We will be visiting them in Christchurch in a couple of weeks, and bringing my niece back with us, as she has been quite traumatized by the experience. She will continue on to spend some time at my dad's place in BC, as her school in NZ has been destroyed and she doesn't have any place to study until at least the end of the year.
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards!!!
Here's a copy of the press release.
Here is the book's Facebook page.
This is a pretty big deal. It's not your usual cookbook - it's also a bit of a manifesto, attempting to bring the cuisine of the South Pacific to foreign visitors. For the most part, Pacific resorts have been feeding tourists crappy frozen and imported things, focusing on the familiar while ignoring the amazing local cuisine. If this can be changed, the islands gain both a new source of tourist revenue and something to make tourism itself more attractive. Everybody wins.
Unfortunately, with Christchurch completely wrecked by the earthquake, my sister was unable to attend the awards gala in Paris this week. :-( What a bummer, not being there for the crowning moment of your whole life's work!
We will be visiting them in Christchurch in a couple of weeks, and bringing my niece back with us, as she has been quite traumatized by the experience. She will continue on to spend some time at my dad's place in BC, as her school in NZ has been destroyed and she doesn't have any place to study until at least the end of the year.
