IACP 2023 AWARD WINNERS
On Friday, September 29, 2023, the International Association of Culinary Professionals announced the winners of the 45th annual IACP awards from The New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, NY. The list of winners were published on the IACP website and announced on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Twitter. This year’s award ceremony was held in conjunction with the IACP Summit.
The Executive Awards Committee and Subcommittees led by IACP’s Awards Director, Paola Briseño-González, updated policies and procedures this year to continue to enhance the rigor of the awards program. It maintains its high level, technical review process and is considered one of the most prestigious award programs in the culinary industry. Changes include refining review processes and stringent ethical rules. The organization also continued efforts to make the awards more accessible by offering a free entry period for digital categories, food writing, food photography and styling, as well as reduced entry fees in the cookbook awards program.
The IACP Cookbook Awards continued its partnership with The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts to award $5,000 to the recipient of the IACP Julia Child First Book Award and support the continuation of the work of a first-time author.
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2023 IACP COOKBOOK AWARDS
The IACP Cookbook Awards honor the authors, publishers, and other contributors behind the best cookbooks published each year. Our program requires multi-step, rigorous recipe testing in all relevant awards categories. Awards are given in 15 categories, and one cookbook will be selected by our Executive Committee Members as the IACP Book of the Year.
The cookbook awards program was chaired by last year’s IACP committee member, Stephanie Swane. Swane is the publisher and editorial director of Modernist Cuisine’s in-house publishing department The Cooking Lab. The chair, along with a dedicated team of 15 judges and five executive committee members make up the cookbook awards committee. The executive committee oversees the review process across fifteen categories. This season’s executive committee members were:
Ken Concepcion, the former chef de cuisine of CUT by Wolfgang Puck in Beverly Hills and the co-founder of Now Serving, the only dedicated cookbook shop in Los Angeles. Paula Forbes, a cookbook author and the former cookbook critic for Lucky Peach magazine. Forbes is currently a Writer-at-Large for Texas Monthly magazine and the editor of Stained Page News. Shannon Mustipher, a spirits educator, cocktail consultant, and the author of Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails. Tina Ujlaki, the former Executive Food Editor at Food & Wine, and current editor, consultant, recipe developer and tester. Yasmin Fahr is a former columnist for Serious Eats, and a luxury hotel and fine dining restaurant inspector for Forbes Travel Guide. She is a regular contributor to New York Times Cooking and author of three cookbooks
To purchase cookbooks, please consider one of the following independent booksellers: Now Serving, Omnivore Books, Kitchen Arts and Letters, Powell’s, or your local cookbook store.
THE 2023 IACP COOKBOOK AWARD WINNERS
American
Six California Kitchens: A Collection of Recipes, Stories, and Cooking Lessons from a Pioneer of California Cuisine
Sally Schmitt; Bruce Smith
Chronicle Books
Baking Sweet & Savory, Confections and Desserts
The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More: A Baking Book
Maurizio Leo
Clarkson Potter
Chefs & Restaurants
Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora
Reem Assil
Ten Speed Press
Children, Youth & Family
(Serious) New Cook: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques
Leah Su Quiroga; Cammie Kim Lin
Rizzoli
Culinary Travel
On the Himalayan Trail: Recipes and Stories from Kashmir to Ladakh
Romy Gill
Hardie Grant Books
Food Issues & Matters
Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts
Daniel Holzman; Matt Rodbard
Harper Wave
Food Photography & Styling
A Year at Catbird Cottage: Recipes for a Nourished Life
Melina Hammer
Melina Hammer, Photographer
Ten Speed Press
General
Food52 Simply Genius: Recipes for Beginners, Busy Cooks & Curious People [A Cookbook]
Kristen Miglore
Ten Speed Press
Health & Wellness
Good for Your Gut: A Plant-Based Digestive Health Guide and Nourishing Recipes for Living Well
Desiree Nielsen
Penguin Canada
International
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook
Rick MartÃnez
Clarkson Potter
Literary or Historical Food Writing
Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies
Rossi Anastopoulo
ABRAMS
Self-Published
My South Texas Kitchen
Yvette Zuniga Jemison
Yvette Zuniga Jemison
Single Subject
Cooking with Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover’s Guide to the World’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients
Andrea Gentl
Artisan Books, Workman Publishing; Hachette Book Group
Wine, Beer or Spirits
Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em
Neal Bodenheimer; Emily Timberlake
ABRAMS
The IACP Julia Child First Book Award, Presented By The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts
The Vegan Chinese: Kitchen Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition: A Cookbook
Hannah Che
Clarkson Potter
The IACP Book of the Year
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook
Rick MartÃnez
Clarkson Potter
2023 IACP DIGITAL MEDIA AWARDS
The Digital Media Awards are bestowed across categories of digital content, including blogs, television, video, audio, and other digital forms. This year, the awards program was led by food stylist and culinary producer, Erin Barnhart. Barnhart started in culinary television with Martha Stewart Omnimedia and Food Network, and has since diversified to work across many platforms in the food media landscape. She is currently working on her own multimedia project, Fungus Amongus Studio.
THE 2023 DIGITAL MEDIA AWARD WINNERS
Corporate Online Video Series
What’s Eating Dan?
Dan Souza
Cook’s Illustrated
Culinary Television Series
America’s Test Kitchen
Jack Bishop, Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Kaitlin Keleher
Americastestkitchen.com
Food Blog
The New Baguette
Alexandra Shytsman
The New Baguette
Individual Instagram Account
Lucrecia Quesada
@lucrecia_quesada
Newsletter (tie)
Hanna Raskin
The Food Section
Paula Forbes
Stained Page News
Podcast Series
Setting the Table
Debra Freeman
Whetstone Magazine
Culinary Recipe Website
Serious Eats
Daniel Gritzer, Tess Koman, Amanda Suarez, Jake Dean, Genevieve Yam, Yasmine Maggio
Serious Eats
2023 FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY & STYLING AWARDS
The IACP Food Photography and Food Styling Awards honor the best in food photography each year, both commercial and editorial work. This season was overseen by an impressive group of judges led by food photographer, stylist and blogger, Rezel Kealoha.
THE 2023 FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AND STYLING AWARD WINNERS
Commercial Food or Beverage Photograph
Diageo’s House of Spirits — Bulleit in the Foyer
Amy Roth
Diageo
Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph
Caprese Burgers
Brie Goldman
Better Homes and Gardens
Culinary Travel Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph
On The Factory Floor of Zhen San Huan in The City of Zhangqiu, Northern China
Graeme Kennedy
SeriousEats.com
Food Styling in a Commercial Food or Beverage Photograph
Cranberry Almond Tart
Ingredient
Dinner Bell Creamery
Food Styling in an Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph
Level Up, Seafood Tower
Erin Quon
Food & Wine
Prop Styling in an Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph
Level Up, Seafood Tower
Audrey Taylor
Food & Wine
2023 FOOD WRITING AWARDS
The Food Writing Awards honor the best examples of food writing published in print or online. This season, the food writing awards were chaired by Maite Gomez-Rejón, the founder of ArtBites. She has dedicated her career to exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes, and tastings in museums and universities across the country.
THE 2023 FOOD WRITING AWARD WINNERS
Beverage-Focused Column
The Brussels Times Magazine’s Beer Column
Breandán Kearney
The Brussels Times Magazine
Culinary Travel Writing With Recipes
Unlocking the Mysteries of Piedmont
Ray Isle
Food & Wine
Culinary Travel Writing Without Recipes
Nok Takes Flight
Craig LaBan
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Narrative Beverage Writing Without Recipes
How the Supreme Court Decision Exacerbated the Dire State of Bar Industry Healthcare
Betsy Andrews
SevenFifty Daily
Narrative Food Writing With Recipes
The Food & Wine Guide to Making Pizza at Home
Mary-Frances Heck, Hunter Lewis, Paige Grandjean
Food & Wine
Narrative Food Writing Without Recipes (tie)
In the Age of Megadrought, Farmers in the West See Promise in Agave
Anne Marshall-Chalmers
Civil Eats and Edible Communities
Publish the Plantain: Why this Venerable Global Fruit Deserves a Book of Its Own
Jessica Kehinde Ngo
The Counter
Personal Essays/Memoir Writing
Snow Falling on Collards
Rosalind Bentley
Gravy
Recipe-Focused Column
The Welcome Table
Dr. Jessica B. Harris
Southern Living
Restaurant Criticism
Casual Dining Reviews
Tim Carman
The Washington Post
2023 CULINARY CLASSICS AWARDS
These awards honor works that have significantly altered the way we think about food and contributed to the field of culinary literature. Any IACP member may nominate a book for inclusion in the culinary classics hall of fame.
Family of the Spirit Cookbook Family of the Spirit Cookbook: Recipes and Remembrances from African-American Kitchens
John Pinderhughes
Simon & Schuster
1990
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Artisan
2000
Tassajara Bread Book
Edward Espe Brown
Shambhala Publications
1974
2023 SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS