Friday, November 5, 2004

FOOD TELEVISION AND COOKBOOKS

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There are now 24.000 new cookbook titles published every year. Sales growth has been steady since 1995 at 5% a year.

Television food shows have been the major factor for the growth of the global cookbook market. For instance, there are over one hundred different shows a week in the United States, and most countries now have food channels.

From 1998 to 2003 Gourmand has had competitions for television cookbooks in 22 countries. The list of winners includes some of the top stars of the food world. Very few are known worldwide: Jamie Oliver is a world star, but many of the others are only known locally or regionally, even if they are excellent.

The winners for the Gourmand Awards 2004 for the different countries will be known at the end of November in each country. The winner for Best in the World 2004 will be announced on February 11, 2005 at the Gourmand World Gala event in Grythyttan, Sweden.

The host for the event will be television star Yvan Cadiou, a French Chef who speaks English and has had many shows on BBC, Carlton, Gourmet TV and many others in different countries.

This year Gourmand has received 20% more books than last year, well over 4.000 books to compete in the various categories.

It is the Tenth Year for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, created in 1994 to honour those who cook and drink with words.

For more information:

Edouard Cointreau

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

President and Founder

Phone: +34 91 541 67 68

Fax:   +34 91 541 68 21

Email: edouard@gourmandbooks.com

FOOD TELEVISION COOKBOOKS

A LOOK BACK AT PAST WINNERS

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
BEST IN THE WORLD	VEFA ALEXIADOU Greece	DELIA SMITH UK	KATSUYO KOBAYASHI Japan	JAMIE OLIVER UK	MARCUS SAMUELSSON USA-Sweden	TINA NORDSTROM Sweden
Australia	Gabriel Gaté (New Holland)	Ian Parmenter (Consuming Passions)				Huey Lain Hewitson (Allen & Unwin)
Austria				Alois Matersberger (Pichler)
Belgium					Hervig van Hove (Roularta Globe TV1)
Denmark						Nikolaj Kirk (TV2 Linghardt)
Finland				Matti Djaten Sacha Remling (Otava)	Kairina Roininen (WSOY)
France					Joël Robuchon Guy Job	J-Luc Petitrenaud (Minerva)
Germany		Alfred Biolek (Z. Sandmann)			Peter Allenbacher (Arte-Droemer)	Alfons Schuhbeck (Z. Sandmann)
Greece	Vefa Alexiadou
India				Jiggs Kalra (Allied)
Israel						Gidi Gov Kinneret
Italia			L. Sarsella J. Matelli (Rai-Eri)			Antonella Clerki Carlo Raspollini Gustavo Verde- (Rai-Eri)
Japan		NHK Series (Japan Broadcast)	KATSUYO KOBAYASHI (Kodansha)		HARUMI KURIHARA (Fuso-Fuji)
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Kenya					Alice Taabu (Kenway Publication
Luxembourg					Maischi Tiresart (Guy Binsfeld)
Lebanon						Chef Ramzi Choueiri
Malaysia			Chef Wan (Times )
The Netherlands						Rudolf van Veen (Kosmos)
Norway				F. Aga – F. Knott (Cappelens)
Spain	Dra. Rosello M. Torreiglesias (Plaza Janes)				M. A. Almodovar (RBA)	José M. Parada (El Pais-Aguilar TV1)
Sweden					M. Samuelsson (TV4 Vision)	Tina Nordström (Natur och Kultur)
UK	Delia Smith (BBC)			Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph Penguin)	Manju Malhi (Michael Joseph Penguin)	Christine Hall James Haye (BBC)
USA	David Rosengarten (Random House Food Network)	Martin Yan (IDG)			Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin)	Americas Test Kitchen (Cooks Illustrated)

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