Guild of Food Writers Awards

 I went to the Guild of Food Writers Awards last night, 25th June 2009, and watched as a massive range of food writers and journalists won awards. Makes you realise what a huge amount of people are involved in the food industry, and it frustrates me how little schools and the curriculum appreciate the job opportunities.
The award for a young writer was won by Justin Gruss from Dorset, who is still at school and won himself a laptop. A great start to a young man who hopes to write a cook book and go on to greater things.
Heston won the best food book, and I managed to get through the crush of excited people waiting to congratulate him. He was genuinely surprised to win this award, and it is amazing that he can manage to run restaurants, do TV programs and write such a huge amount of material. Kitchen Chemistry is a book and CD on my website which has some fascinating science to use in the classroom.

Blogs had their own awards and the winner was Tim Hayward for his blog on The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth