We've been covering awards for the young and upcoming recently but last night was a chance for the more seasoned members of food world to get glammed up and give each other gongs. The Guild of Food Writer awards are some of the most prestigious in the business and cover everything from writing restaurant reviews to cookbooks.
Double winners included Tim Hayward for the quarterly Fire & Knives magazine and for best food journalist while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall also scooped two awards for Hugh's Fish Fight on Channel 4. Best restaurant reviewer went to Independent regular John Walsh, while veteran cookbook writer Claudia Roden was an extremely popular recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award.
The full list of winners were as follows:
- Lifetime achievement: Claudia Roden
- Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing and Broadcasting: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hugh's Fish Fight)
- Food Broadcast: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hugh's Fish Fight)
- Food Journalist: Tim Hayward
- Food Magazine or Section: Fire & Knives
- Cookery Book: Couture Chocolate by William Curley
- Cookery Journalist: Lucas Hollweg
- Food Book of the Year: Food Britannia by Andrew Webb
- Best First Book: How To Make Bread by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou
- Work on British Food: Richard McComb of the Birmingham Post
- Restaurant Reviewer of the Year: John Walsh
- Work on Food and Travel: Yotam Ottolenghi for Jerusalem on a Plate (BBC Four)
- Work on Healthy Eating: The Food Programme: Transfatspresented by Sheila Dillon (BBC Radio 4)
- New Media of the Year Award: thefoodiebugle.com
- Food Blog of the Year Award: Emma Gardner for her blog poiresauchocolat.net
