Observer Food Monthly announces award winners

Awards season in the U.S. won’t happen for several months, but in the U.K. there’s food award action now, as indexed magazine Observer Food Monthly announces its 2014 award winners. While much of the action focuses on restaurants and retailers, there are some awards that EYB members outside of the U.K. may find interesting.

Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond by Sabrina Ghayour won the award for best cookbook. Ghayour’s take “on Middle Eastern cooking mixes it up a bit and includes turmeric and cumin roast potatoes and pomegranate-glazed pork as well as pistachio and lemon shortbread.” The best food blog award goes to Jack Monroe, the blogger, cookbook writer, and austerity activist who “has defeated all-comers, from Edwina Currie to internet trolls, on her way to success.”

If you’re in the market for a new brownie recipe, you might want to try out the winner for best reader’s recipe: smokin’ pig licker brownies by Gavan Knox (yes, they contain bacon). Read more about the 2014 award winners, including an interview with Nigella Lawson, OFM’s food personality of the year.