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2007 IACP Cookbook Awards - Finalists and Winners

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By Brett Moore, About.com

Book of the Year

The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) is a worldwide organization made up of 4,000 members involved in culinary education, communication, and the restaurant industry. The annual IACP awards were created to encourage quality in cookbook and food literature and to spread awareness of culinary publications.

2007 IACP COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

  • What to Drink with What You Eat: the definitive guide to pairing food with wine, beer, spirits, coffee, tea - even water - based on expert advice from America's best sommeliers
    Authors: Andrew Dornenburg & Karen Page
    Publisher: Bulfinch Press
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American Category: "Cookbooks that focus on ethnic, cultural or regional cooking in the United States of America."

  • Dishes From the Wild Horse Desert: norteno cooking of South Texas
    Author: Melissa Guerra
    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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  • WINNER! The Lee Brothers Southern Cookbook: stories and recipes for southerners and would-be southerners
    Authors: Matt Lee & Ted Lee
    Publisher: W.W. Norton
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  • Sharing the Table at Garland's Lodge
    Authors: Amanda Stine & Mary Garland
    Publisher: Garland's Oak Creek Lounge
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Bread, Other Baking and Sweets Category: "Cookbooks that focus on breadmaking, desserts, confections, and sweet or savory pastries or doughs."

  • About Professional Baking
    Author: Gail Sokol
    Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning
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  • Baking: from my home to yours
    Author: Dorie Greenspan
    Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
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  • WINNER! Bread Matters: the sorry state of modern bread and a definitive guide to baking your own
    Author: Andrew Whitley
    Publisher: Fourth Estate
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Chefs and Restaurants Category (California Table Grape Commission Award): "Cookbooks by or about chefs, collections of recipes from chefs, or books that focus on the cuisine of a specific restaurant."

  • WINNER! Allegra McEvedy's Colour Cookbook
    Author: Allegra McEvedy
    Publisher: Kyle Cathie Ltd
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  • Happy in the Kitchen
    Author: Michel Richard
    Susie Heller Peter Kaminsky
    Publisher: Artisan
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  • Heston Blumenthal: in search of perfection; reinventing kitchen classics
    Author: Heston Blumenthal
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Compilations Category: "Cookbooks comprised of material previously published in another format, or compiled by a staff of writers or editors."

  • The 150 Best American Recipes
    Author: Fran McCullough & Molly Stevens
    Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
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  • WINNER! All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook
    Authors: Cooking Light magazine and book editors
    Publisher: Oxmoor House
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  • The Professional Chef, 8th Edition
    Author: The Culinary Institute of America
    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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First Book (The Julia Child Award): "The first cookbook by a writer who has not previously authored or co-authored a cookbook."

  • Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: treasured foodways, modern flavors
    Author: Andrea Nguyen
    Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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  • WINNER! The Lee Brothers Southern Cookbook: stories and recipes for southerners and would-be southerners
    Authors: Matt Lee & Ted Lee
    Publisher: W.W. Norton
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  • Memories of Philippine Kitchens: stories and recipes from far and near
    Authors: Amy Besa & Romy Dorotan
    Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
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