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Cookery Competition 2012
Going for Gold!

Summary of winners:

The Guild of Food Writers is delighted to announce its annual cookery competition – CookIt! – and is now looking for aspiring young cooks across the country.

First prize is a fantastic week’s family holiday in Cornwall AND the winning child's school will win Ł100 worth of book vouchers.

2012 is going to be a fantastic year for sport and the Guild of Food Writers is getting ahead of the game with its annual children’s CookIt! competition, which is sponsored by Gold Top and generously supported by Electrolux.

With the theme ‘Going for Gold’, aspiring young cooks are asked to create a winning two‑course meal – main meal and pudding – for a favourite sports person. Entrants, aged from 10 to 14 on Friday 31 August 2012, are encouraged to let their imaginations run wild. Points will be awarded for technical skill, originality, creativity and presentation.

Six lucky finalists will be invited to recreate their winning dishes in a thrilling, gold medal cook-off at the newly designed Electrolux test kitchens in May.

The winner and his or her family will be invited to stay for a week in a cottage on Treen Farm, a working organic dairy farm in St. Levan, Cornwall, courtesy of the sponsors Gold Top.

Andrew Payling, chairman of QMP says, ‘Gold Top is proud of our association with the Guild of Food Writers and anything we can do to encourage young people to think about what they are cooking and eating, and where our food comes from has to be good. If they are thinking Gold Top even better!’

Helen Haider, Marketing manager for Electrolux says, ‘Electrolux is very excited to work with The Guild of Food Writers in this great project. A passion for cooking is a great mindset for young children to have.....At Electrolux we believe that encouraging children to cook nutritious food is essential to their health and wellbeing.’

Young cooks at the starting post, now ready, steady get cooking...!

Please send your recipes and entry form to Debbie Hearn, c/o The Guild of Food Writers, 34 Greenacres, Woolton Hill, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 9TA by Friday 20 April 2012.

For more information and to download an entry form please visit www.gfw.co.uk or contact:
Jonathan Woods, The Guild of Food Writers
Telephone: 020 8659 0422
Email: jonathan@gfw.co.uk

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Cookery Book of the Year Award

Winner: Caroline and Robin Weir, Ice Creams, Sorbets and Gelati: The Definitive Guide (published by Grub Street)

The other shortlistees were:

Willie Harcourt-Cooze, Willie's Chocolate Bible (published by Hodder & Stoughton)

Diana Henry, Food from Plenty: Good Food Made from the Plentiful, the Seasonal and the Leftover with Over 300 Recipes,

None of Them Extravagant (published by Mitchell Beazley)

Yotam Ottolenghi,Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London's Ottolenghi (published by Ebury Press)

Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing or Broadcasting

Winner: BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme: The Fruit Industry presented by Sheila Dillon

The other shortlistees were:

Stefan Gates,Stefan Gates on E Numbers (published by Conran Octopus)

BBC One’s The Great British Waste Menu (produced by Optomen Television)

Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year

Winner: Mark Hix, for work published in The Independent

The other shortlistees were:

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with Debora Robertson, for work published in The Guardian’s Weekend magazine

Diana Henry, for work published in The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine

Food Book of the Year Award

Winner: Mark Diacono, A Taste of the Unexpected (published by Quadrille)

The other shortlistees were:

Patricia Michelson, Cheese (published by Jacqui Small)

Lindy Wildsmith, Cured: Slow Techniques for Flavouring Meat, Fish and Vegetables (published by Jacqui Small)

Food Broadcast of the Year Award

Winner: BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme: Pop-up London presented by Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward

The other shortlistees were:

BBC Two’s E Numbers: An Edible Adventure presented by Stefan Gates (produced by Plum Pictures)

BBC One’s The Great British Waste Menu (produced by Optomen Television)

Food Journalist of the Year Award

Winner: Felicity Cloake, for work published in Fire & Knives and The Guardian

The other shortlistees were:

Tim Hayward, for work published in Fire & Knives and on The Guardian and The Observer’s Word of Mouth blog

Christopher Hirst, for work published in The Independent

Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book

Winner: Niki Segnit, The Flavour Thesaurus (published by Bloomsbury Publishing)

The other shortlistees were:

Ghillie James, Jam, Jelly & Relish: Simple preserves, pickles & chutneys & creative ways to cook with them (published by Kyle Cathie)

Stevie Parle, My Kitchen: Real Food from Near and Far (New Voices in Food) (published by Quadrille)

Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel

Winner: Josceline Dimbleby, Orchards in the Oasis: Travels, Food and Memories (published by Quadrille)

The other shortlistees were:

Sybil Kapoor, for work published in The Spectator: Scoff, Caterer and Hotelkeeper and House & Garden

Jamie Oliver, Jamie Does... (published by Michael Joseph)

Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food

Winner: Sybil Kapoor, for work published in Country Life

The other shortlistees were:

Mark Hix, Hix Oyster & Chop House (published by Quadrille)

John Wright, Hedgerow (River Cottage Handbook) (published by Bloomsbury Publishing)

Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating

Winner: Valerie Twomey, Truly Tasty: Over 100 Special Recipes Created by Irelands Top Chefs for Adults Living with Kidney Disease (published by Atrium)

The other shortlistees were:

BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme: Sugar and the Soda Tax presented by Sheila Dillon

BBC Two’s E Numbers: An Edible Adventure presented by Stefan Gates (produced by Plum Pictures)

New Media of the Year Award

Winner: Felicity Cloake, for work published on The Guardian and The Observer’s Word of Mouth blog

The other shortlistees were:

Katy Salter, for work published on www.pinchofsaltlondon.com

Oliver Thring, for work published on The Guardian and The Observer’s Word of Mouth blog

Restaurant Reviewer of the Year Award

Winner: Marina O’Loughlin, for work published in Metro and Fire & Knives

The other shortlistees were:

Richard McComb, for work published in The Birmingham Post

Matthew Norman, for work published in The Daily Telegraph

Lifetime Achievement Award

Anna del Conte

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BRITISH LIBRARY

The British Library has recently launched a new interactive resource entitled Food Stories, a website that examines the revolutionary changes that have taken place in the production and consumption of food in the UK over the last century. The website can be found at:

www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/foodstories/index.html

Using recordings from the British Library Sound Archive, the animated resource covers a range of subjects: from tradition and ritual, cultural identity and migration to farming, technology, food miles and Fairtrade.
Detailed transcripts and background contextual information are provided for each recording. Teachers' Notes and Student Activities also accompany the website.

The recordings featured on the website were selected from the British Library Sound Archive life story collections focused on food. This collection, titled 'Food: from source to sales point' holds over 300 life story recordings of people who work in all different aspects of food production in the UK – chefs, manufacturers, farmers, food activists etc. The recordings cover the period of time from the late 1880s to the present day and range from 4 hours to 30 hours in duration. The recordings have been archived at the British Library and are available, subject to copyright, to British Library users.

There is enough food in the world to more than sustain the hungry while not disenfranchising the mobility and alertness of the rich and the aspiring rich, enough food to feed the world. Enough food to reach the hungry.

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FOOD & CINEMA EVENTS

Berlinale Culinary Cinema

www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/festival-sektionen/eat_drink_see_movies/index.html

Slow Food on Film
www.slowfoodonfilm.it
Media that Matters

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

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Artists Who Cook

Artists have a unique touch in the kitchen due to their eye for form and colour, or their sensitivity to the smells and memories associated with food.

Author and Former Editor of ArtNews, Donald Goddard, wrote:

"Some artists hardly go into their kitchens... except for a glass of water or to scramble some eggs. Others go into their kitchens quite a bit. They make things they think are good for themselves and other people. They have fun, they really get into it.

Sometimes it's really good what they do, I mean extraordinary and good to look at. It means something. It has meaning. It's simple. It tastes like nothing you have ever had before, like some great quintessence of food, especially with a glass of wine. "

Artists and Designers Who Cook

John Cage

Alexander Conner

Salvador Dali

Josh Dmarkis

Richard Dubrow

Paul Jenkins

M.F.K. Fisher

Rachel Kangas

Alex Katz

Kevin Kelly

Willem de Kooning

Elaine de Kooning

Wilfredo Lam

F.T. Marinetti

Lauren Matsumoto

Henry Moore

Marisol

Brad Melamed

Lori Montana

Georgia O'keefe

Gustavo Ojeda

Francis Picabia

Larry Rivers

Lawrence Weiner

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FOOD FOR GOOD

Budding chefs and food lovers are being urged to put their money where their mouths are and hold a dinner party – while raising cash for people living in poverty overseas. Brand new initiative Food for Good is being spearheaded by Practical Action, a charity which runs food projects with some of the poorest communities across the world.
Whether a formal dinner party, an informal coffee morning or a barbeque, guests are asked to make a donation so the charity can continue its vital work. Or why not follow the ‘Come Dine With Me’ route and get together with friends to do a week of dinner parties and score each other?

Practical Action works in 13 countries across the world; and many of its projects focus on helping people grow and sell food. From working with Bangladeshi communities to grow pumpkins on barren land, helping farmers to grow and sell crops, to introducing fuel efficient stoves, the charity has a number of exciting and innovative projects which improve people’s access to food across the world.
To host your own Food for Good event please contract Practical Action on 01926 634400.

Email events@practicalaction.org.uk or visit www.practicalaction.org/foodforgood

GENERAL NEWS

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Poets, writers, artists Wherever you are in the world, protect and promote your current theatre, art, poetry, music campaigns We want to emphasise real links between the arts and food economics and to help fair trading and direct online access for small food producers.

Over the past ten years Food in the Arts has begun a dialogue between artists, musicians, authors, filmmakers and poets and also with representatives of the food industry from over 30 countries, as a consequence of the very active website. Essential world regions where ‘artistic transactions’ might beneficially occur are being studied and explored.

We wish to identify artists and arts organisations that might be able to contribute to the growth of this awareness through the website. In particular, we want to initiate contact between relevant artists and local food growers or suppliers. We believe that much talent is unexplored or inhibited, simply because someone happens to live in the ‘wrong’ country. Our target is to bring together the artistic element for the proposed mainstream event, to be held in London.

Food is something that crosses all generations and international communities. It is socially inclusive and cohesive, it is necessary to our survival and, in an aesthetic context, has unlimited appeal. The wealth of the planet is becoming increasingly polarised in the global market. Market growth is at the expense of the freely given, the non-monetary transactions of human communication. Everything that springs from affection and creative expression is an action that does not exploit the poor.

All usefulness has one thing in common - an obsession with wealth. The real problem in the world is not the poor, but the rich. The opposite of poverty is not wealth, but sufficiency. Poor people want enough for their sustenance. They want to be relieved from insecurity, which threatens them with constant eviction and hunger. They want a period of security, peace and stability to bring up a new generation and nurture creative talent.

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