Awards in your library

Summary: 16 Awards.

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman (#61)

Andre Simon Award

• Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book by Jane GRIGSON (1978)
• Classic Chinese Cooking by Yan-kit So (1984)
• Traditional Spanish Cooking by Janet Mendel (1996)
• Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking by Fergus Henderson (1999)
• The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford Companions) by Alan Davidson (1999)

Betty Trask Award

• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (1996)

British Guild of Food Writers

• A Year in My Kitchen: A collection of recipes inspired by the seasons and based on a culinary toolbox of inventive flavorings by Skye Gyngell (Cookery Book of the Year Award, 2007)
• How to cook better by Shaun Hill (Cookery Book of the Year, 2005)
• The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford Companions) by Alan Davidson (Food Book of the Year, 2000)
• Cook's Tour, A: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain (Food Book of the Year, 2002)
• Sichuan Cookery by Fuchsia Dunlop (Jeremy Round Award, 2002)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Renny. (Second edition revised.) by Elizabeth David

Guardian 1000

• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (Comedy)

Hawthornden Prize

• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (1997)

IACP Cookbook Award

• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop (2009, finalist)

IACP Cookbook of the Year

• Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison (1998)

James Beard Foundation Award Nominee

• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop (2009)
• Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors by Andrea Quynhgiao Nguyen (Asian Cooking, 2007)
• Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing by Michael Ruhlman (Single Subject, 2006)
• Heat by Bill Buford (Writing on Food, 2007)

KitchenAid Cookbook Hall of Fame

• A book of Mediterranean food : and other writings by Elizabeth David (2001)

New York Times bestseller

• Heat by Bill Buford (Nonfiction, 2006)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Heat by Bill Buford (Non-Fiction, 2006)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Nigel Slater : the kitchen diaries by Nigel Slater (2006)
• My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo (2006)
• THE REVOLUTIONARY CHINESE COOKBOOK by FUCHSIA DUNLOP (2007)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• Heat by Bill Buford (Best Book (4) 2006)

Whitbread

• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (First Novel, 1996)