Food Writers announce shortlists
01.06.09 Katie Allen reporting in The Bookseller

The shortlists for the 14th Guild of Food Writers Awards have been announced, with Heston Blumenthal, Bee Wilson and BBC Radio 4 all up for prizes.

The annual awards have this year added a twelfth category: an award for Work on Food and Travel in memory of Guild member Kate Whiteman who died in a road accident in January this year.
The winners will be announced on 25th June.

The shortlists:
Food Book of the Year
Heston Blumenthal The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (Bloomsbury)
Christine McFadden Pepper: The Spice That Changed The World (Absolute Press)
Christopher Stocks Forgotten Fruits: A Guide to Britain's Traditional Fruit
and Vegetables (Random House)
Bee Wilson Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark
History of the Food Cheats (John Murray)

Cookery Book of the Year
Xanthe Clay Recipes To Know By Heart (Mitchell Beazley)
Simon Daley and Roshan Hirani Cooking with my Indian Mother-in-law
(Pavilion)
Mark Hix British Seasonal Food (Quadrille)

The Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel
Fuchsia Dunlop Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper (Ebury)
Stefan Gates In The Danger Zone (Ebury)
BBC Four's "Cooking in the Danger Zone"
Kevin Gould for With Love From ... features published in Waitrose Food llustrated

For the complete list, including media and writing section shortlists, link here.