December 29, 2018
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“EAT SMART Guides is the winner selected to represent the U.S. in the Series category.”–Zhang Yaping, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Ginkgo Press was honored to receive this email on Christmas Eve:
“The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are delighted to announce that EAT SMART GUIDES is the winner selected to represent the U.S. in the Series category. The awards event will be Saturday, May 26 and May 27, 2018 in Yantai, China. You would be most welcome. Your book will now compete in its category against other countries for The Best in the World. The results will be announced on May 26, 2018, at the annual Gourmand Awards Ceremony.”
Congratulations to all of our authors who have contributed to this series! And especially to Ronnie Hess, co-author with me of Eat Smart in Portugal, which we released in September 2017. It was our submission of the Portugal guide to the Gourmand Award competition that won the Best Travel Series award for us.
“The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are delighted to announce that EAT SMART GUIDES is the winner selected to represent the U.S. in the Series category. The awards event will be Saturday, May 26 and May 27, 2018 in Yantai, China. You would be most welcome. Your book will now compete in its category against other countries for The Best in the World. The results will be announced on May 26, 2018, at the annual Gourmand Awards Ceremony.”
Congratulations to all of our authors who have contributed to this series! And especially to Ronnie Hess, co-author with me of Eat Smart in Portugal, which we released in September 2017. It was our submission of the Portugal guide to the Gourmand Award competition that won the Best Travel Series award for us.
ABOUT THE EAT SMART SERIES:
The EAT SMART Guides explore the cuisines of foreign destinations. To date, guides are available for Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sicily, and Turkey.
Never out-of-date, these informative and comprehensive guides contain food history, insight on regional specialties, contributed recipes to preview the tastes of the country, useful phrases, handy shopping tips, and two extensive, bilingual dictionaries to simplify navigating menu and market. Also included are a cross-referenced index and a bibliography.
The guides are all about “what” there is to eat. People who travel for business or pleasure now can easily determine what’s on the menu, what’s in the market, what’s on their plate, and what they can ask for as they travel. Dining out in a foreign country no longer needs to be gastronomic guesswork.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:
Joan Peterson received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology/Electron Microscopy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1993 she began a second career. She started the publishing company, Ginkgo Press, and created the EAT SMART series of guidebooks designed for travelers and cookbook lovers. To date she has written or co-written 11 of the 14 available culinary guidebooks (Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco, Sicily, India, Peru, Norway, and Portugal). She has traveled extensively for many years, and leads culinary tours to Turkey, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Norway, Peru, Portugal, and Sicily.
Joan Peterson received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology/Electron Microscopy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1993 she began a second career. She started the publishing company, Ginkgo Press, and created the EAT SMART series of guidebooks designed for travelers and cookbook lovers. To date she has written or co-written 11 of the 14 available culinary guidebooks (Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco, Sicily, India, Peru, Norway, and Portugal). She has traveled extensively for many years, and leads culinary tours to Turkey, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Norway, Peru, Portugal, and Sicily.
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. Every year, they honor the best food and wine books, printed or digital, as well as food television. Books from 205 countries participate in these prestigious awards, the only international competition for culinary literature. It is free, and open to all languages. With the huge network created around the Gourmand Awards, Edouard Cointreau decided to launch the Paris Cookbook Fair in 2010. After three years at Le Centquatre, the fair moved to the Carrousel du Louvre in 2013, and Beijing in 2014. Since then, the World Cookbook Fair takes place at the Frankfurt Book Fair. To learn more, visit cookbookfair.com. |
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Published by Ginkgo Press, Madison, Wisconsin. For more information on the award-winning EAT SMART series, and for images of the authors and book covers, visit www.eatsmartguides.com or email info@eatsmartguides.com. Distributed by the University of Wisconsin Press, 608-263-0734; 608-263-1132 Fax; or email publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu.