Today I'm writing to share with you the exciting news: Man'oushe has won special award of the jury in the Gourmand Cookbook Award. What is the Gourmand Cookbook Award you may ask yourself? Here is a little history:
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. In 2008, books from 102 countries participated in these prestigious awards. It is open to all languages. After Beijing and London, the annual Gourmand Awards event will be in Paris at the Comédie-Française, the historical theatre of Moliere, on Wednesday July 1, 2009. The objectives of the Awards are: To reward and honor those who “cook with words”, to help readers find the best out of the 26000 food and wine books produced every year, to help publishers with international rights to translate and distribute food and wine books, to help book retailers find the 50 food and wine books that each year should be offered to clients, to create an opportunity to access the major markets in English, Chinese, German, Spanish or French for books originated in other languages, to increase knowledge and respect for food and wine culture, which promotes peace. The winners in each language are announced in November, and compete for the Best in the World, announced in July of the following year at a gala dinner.
So in a nutshell, we are packing (because I'm taking my whole family with me, as I can't leave home without/ kinda of like Mastercard and Visa ha ha ha ) and we're off to share this wonderful journey.
Future Television is going to report on the event and I have just been informed that Noun magazine is giving me (i mean man'oushe) two pages in the culinary section... So cool! We are going to visit with the camera crew: Les Delices D'orient, Dom's - a Lebanese restaurant, and of course we will be attending the most important event - the Award Ceremony.
So I've decided to document the trip from A to Z with photo coverage of this event. Keep posted for more interesting details and photos...
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