UK recipe tome wins cookbook of the year

What's more, the book got two awards, also beating out David Kinch's Manresa: An Edible Reflection and Rene Redzepi's Rene

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Redzepi: A Work in Progress in the cooking from a professional point of view category.

Of greater interest to most home cooks will be the foundation's naming of Diana Kennedy to its Cookbook Hall of Fame. Kennedy has spent much of her life learning and preserving the traditional cooking and ingredients of Mexico, a mission that sends her across the country in search of elusive recipes.

Her first cookbook, The Cuisines of Mexico, was written based on research with home cooks across Mexico and established her as the foremost authority on the cuisine. It remains the seminal work on the subject.

The Beard Foundation's awards honor those who follow in the footsteps of Beard, considered the dean of American cooking when he died in 1985.

Some familiar faces nabbed broadcast awards on Friday. Martha Stewart was honored for her public television series Martha Stewart's Cooking School in the studio based television category, while Anthony Bourdain took the top honor for on location television for The Mind of a Chef, also on public television. Outstanding food personality or host went to Food Network's Ina Garten for her Barefoot Contessa: BacktoBasics.

The big winner in the journalism awards was David Chang's Lucky Peach, a quarterly launched in 2011 that quickly became one of the top food magazines. Though the magazine itself wasn't honored on Friday, its writers netted awards in five different categories-humor, food and culture writing, personal essay, profile and the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.

Associated Press