Australian cookbook wins People’s Choice Award

The only Australian cookbook to make this year’s list of finalists has won the People’s Choice Award at the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards in San Francisco this week.

A Sardinian Cookbook by chef Giovanni Pilu (of Sydney two-hat restaurant Pilu at Freshwater) and Roberta Muir (Sydney Seafood School manager) was one of three finalists in the international category of the awards, held earlier this week.

The other two international finalists were Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi and Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid.

“We were stoked even to make the list of finalists. And given that Jerusalem, which won our category, also won best overall cookbook - we can’t be too ashamed of that defeat,” said Pilu.

“We are honoured and humbled to take out the People’s Choice Award.”

A Sardinian Cookbook is Giovanni Pilu’s first cookbook.