International Association of Culinary Professionals The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) is a United States-based not-for-profit professional association whose members work in culinary education, communication, or the preparation of food and beverage.
History
The organizati ...
(IACP). It honours distinguished scholarship and depth of research in cookbooks and is named in honour of the British cookery writer
Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson (born Heather Mabel Jane McIntire; 13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for ''The Observer'' and wrote numerous books about Eu ...
.
The winners of the award are:
* 1992: Margaret Visser, ''The Rituals of Dinner''
* 1993: Betty Fussell, ''The Story of Corn: The Myths and History, the Culture and Agriculture, the Art and Science of America's Quintessential Crop''
* 1994: William Woys Weaver and Jerry Orabona, ''Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking''
* 1995:
Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David CBE (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer. In the mid-20th century she strongly influenced the revitalisation of home cookery in her native country and beyond with articles and bo ...
and Jill Norman, ''Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices''
* 1996: Sandra L. Oliver, ''Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food, at Sea and Ashore, in the Nineteenth Century''
* 1997:
Rachel Laudan
Rachel Laudan (born 1944) is a food historian, an author of the prizewinning ''Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History''.Diane Kochilas, ''The Glorious Foods of Greece: Traditional Recipes from the Islands, Cities, and Villages''
* 2002: Stephen Brook and Gary Latham, ''Bordeaux: People, Power and Politics''
* 2004:
Paul Bertolli
Paul Joseph Bertolli (born 1954) is a chef, writer, and artisan food producer in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California.
Biography
Paul Bertolli was born in 1954 in San Rafael, California, to parents of Italian descent. He rose to prominenc ...
, ''Cooking by Hand''
* 2005: Grace Young and Alan Richardson, ''The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking through Recipes and Lore''
* 2006: Marcie Cohen Ferris, ''Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South''
* 2006: Elizabeth Andoh, ''Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen''
* 2007: Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan, ''Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near''
* 2008:
Ken Albala
Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific (United States)
University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a private Methodist-affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses i ...
, ''Beans: A History''
* 2008:
George M. Taber
George McCaffrey Taber (born May 25, 1942) is a journalist and entrepreneur.
Taber was a reporter and editor with ''Time'' magazine in the United States and Europe for 21 years, working in Brussels; Bonn; Houston; Washington, DC; and New York. S ...
, ''To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle''
* 2009:
Fuchsia Dunlop
Fuchsia Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan cuisine. She is the author of five books, including the autobiographical ''Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper'' (2008). According to Julia Moskin in ...
, ''Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China''
* 2011: Greg Marley, ''Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms''
* 2011:
Peter Menzel
Peter J. Menzel (born February 7, 1948) is an American freelance photojournalist and author, best known for his coverage of scientific and technological subjects. His work has appeared in many national and international publications including ' ...
and Faith D'Aluisio, ''What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets''
* 2012: Barry Estabrook, ''Tomatoland''
* 2012: Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg, ''Inside the Jewish Bakery''
* 2013:
Anne Willan
Anne Willan (born 26 January 1938 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is the founder of the École de Cuisine La Varenne, which operated in Paris and Burgundy France, from 1975 until 2007. La Varenne classes continued in Santa Monica, California, thr ...
, Mark Cherniavsky, Kyri Claflin, ''The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook''
* 2014:
Jancis Robinson
Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, ComMA, MW (born 22 April 1950) is a British wine critic, journalist and wine writer. She currently writes a weekly column for the ''Financial Times'', and writes for her website JancisRobinson.com, updated daily. She ...
, Julia Harding & Jose Vouillamoz, ''
Wine Grapes
This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species including those unimportant to agriculture, see Vit ...
''
* 2015:
Dave Arnold
Dave Arnold (born 1971) is the founder and president of the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD); the host of the radio show '' Cooking Issues''; an owner of Booker and Dax, a food and drink research lab in New York; a food science writer and editor ...
, ''Liquid Intelligence: The Art & Science of the Perfect Cocktail''
* 2016:
Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American molecular biologist, nutritionist, and public health advocate. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Emerita at New York University. Her research examines s ...
, ''Soda Politics: Taking On Big Soda (And Winning)''
* 2017: Joy Santlofer, ''Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York''
* 2018:
Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959), formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of ''Modernist Cuisine'' and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor o ...