On 5 February 2019, the 40th annual André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards will be presented at a reception in central London. In the run-up to the big night, cookbookreview.blog is delighted to be able to bring you reviews of each to the eight books shortlisted in the food category along with interviews with this year’s independent assessor of the food award, chef, food writer and author, Meera Sodha and André Simon chairman Nick Lander.
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The shortlisted food books for 2018 are:
- Black Sea
by Caroline Eden (Quadrille Publishing) - First, Catch
by Thom Eagle (Quadrille Publishing) - How to Eat a Peach
by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley) - Lateral Cooking
by Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury Publishing) - MOB Kitchen
by Ben Lebus (Pavilion Books) - Pasta, Pane, Vino
by Matt Goulding (Hardie Grant Publishing) - Pie and Mash Down the Roman Road
by Melanie McGrath (Two Roads) - Shetland
by James & Tom Morton (Quadrille Publishing) - Together
by The Hubb Community Kitchen (Ebury Press)
We won’t be reviewing the shortlisted drink books, but we’re sure they will be well worth investigating:
- Amber Revolution
by Simon J Woolf (Morning Claret Productions) - Flawless
by Jamie Goode (University of California Press) - Red & White
by Oz Clarke (Little Brown Book Group) - The Life of Tea
by Michael Freeman & Timothy D’Offay (Mitchell Beazley) - The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste
by Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay (Ten Speed Press) - Vineyards, Rocks and Soils
by Alex Maltman (Oxford University Press)
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