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6th October 2008

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Double accolade for Ruth Cowen

14.06.07 Anna Richardson

Ruth Cowen has won an impressive double whammy of prizes, as she took home The Guild of Food Writers' Awards' Food Book of the Year and Best First Book prizes for Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer (Weidenfeld/Phoenix).

Cowen beat fellow shortlisted authors Andrew Whitley, (Bread Matters, HarperCollins) and Giorgio Locatelli (Made in Italy, HarperCollins), to the main award.

Meanwhile, Mark Hix, finalist in the BBC's "Great British Menu" TV programme, won Award for Work on British Food with British Regional Food (Quadrille), and Skye Gyngell took the Cookery Book of the Year Award for A Year in my Kitchen (Quadrille).

Other prizes included Cookery Journalist of the Year, which went to Diana Henry for work published in The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine, and BBC Radio 4's "Food Programme" picked up the Award for Work on Healthy Eating. Guardian journalist Felicity Lawrence won the award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing and Food Journalist of the Year.

The Guild of Food Writers' Awards, sponsored by the British Egg Information Service, were announced at the Blueprint Café on Tuesday 12th June.

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