Saturday, December 01, 2012

Polpo cookbook beats Hilary Mantel to Waterstones prize


A recipe book from the team behind Polpo restaurant is judged Waterstones Book of the Year.

Polpo cookbook beats Hilary Mantel to Waterstones prize
Polpo cookbook beats Hilary Mantel to Waterstones prize
Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) features recipes for pizzette, meatballs and the perfect Bellini.
The author, Russell Norman, opened his no-bookings Polpo restaurant in London’s Soho in 2009, offering small, tapas-style plates based on the menu of a Venetian bacaro.
The cookbook was a surprise winner of the inaugural prize, which featured a shortlist of fiction and non-fiction nominated by Waterstones staff.
Nominees included Bring Up The Bodies, which won the Man Booker Prize last month.
The other contenders were Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper, The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot by Robert Macfarlane, On The Map: Why The World Looks The Way It Does by Simon Garfield and HHhH by Laurent Binet.
James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, said: “We wanted our first Book of the Year to stand out for many reasons.
Polpo absolutely does - not just for its obvious merits as a cookery book, of which it is a first class example from an absolute expert, but it is a book that, for all the bytes and e-ink in the world, can only be properly appreciated in its printed form.” 
Full article at The Telegraph

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