A TRANSLATED 18th-century Spanish recipe book has won a highly coveted €2,000 cookery prize.
Vicky Hayward won the Jane Grigson Award for her book called The New Art of Cooking: A Spanish Friar’s Kitchen Notebook.
Originally published in 1745, the book was written by Spanish Franciscan friar Juan Altamiras.
With a new narrative added by Hayward reflecting the food culture of eighteenth-century Spain, the judges deemed the book “unusual” and worthy of the respected award.
“The biggest surprise was how delicious the food of an eighteenth-century Spanish monastery actually was,” said one judge.
The award, named after British food writer Jane Grigson, is for first-time food and drink writers of a book that has been commissioned but not yet published.
This year’s winning book will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in June.
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