2000 BEST PHOTOGRAPHY Many cookbooks sell because of the photography, even if the author of the text has a bigger name on the cover. For publishers and authors, some photographers are the real stars, and they imprint their own style to the books. Food stylists are also becoming more and more important to chefs and photographs. BEST IN THE WORLD Kieran Scott, New Zealand
FINALISTS FRENCH La Provence de Ducasse, by Alain Ducasse (Assouline) ENGLISH 
| Kieran Scott (New Zealand) for the New Zealand Baker (Tandem Press-NZ) and Savour the Pacific (The International Culinary Institute Press – NZ) |
|
GERMAN 
| The New Tuscany, by Martina Meuth and Bernd-Neuner Durrenhofer (Droemer) |
|
ITALIAN Arte In Cucina, by Carlo Pozzoni (Associazione Cuochi Di Como) DUTCH Harold Pereira, Christiaan van Mameren, for Spinazie (Iglomora-Holland) 1999 BEST IN THE WORLD Bruno Hausch, Culinary Chronicle (Opt-Art)
FINALISTS FRENCH 
| Pierre Hussenot, for Les Jardins Gourmands de Lenôtre, (Hachette) |
|
ENGLISH James Lambeth, for Cuisine of the Creative (Miami Dog Press) GERMAN Christian Teubner, for Italienisch Kochen Mit Carlo Bernasconi (Teubner) SPANISH Günter Beer, for Culinaria España (Könemann) 1998 BEST IN THE WORLD - Casanova, Un Venitien Gourmand, by C.Toesca, JB Naudin, L.Vigliardi (Le Chêne) | 
