GOURMAND BEST IN THE WORLD AWARDS 2022 - SERIES

HISTÓRIA DOS PALADARES

HISTORY OF TASTES

 I - SEDUCTION     AND     II - PERDITION

by DEANA BARROQUEIRO

 FIRST PRIZE -  GOURMAND BEST IN THE WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2022 CATEGORY OF SERIES

The 2 books had already received the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2022, for Countries and Regions Competition, in 2 categories – Series and History of Culinary, competing with 227 countries. 

In the Gourmand  Best in the World  Cookbook Awards  last competition, for the OSCARS OF THE GASTRONOMY, were selected 62 countries (from the previous 227) and the History of Tastes won the 1st Prize, as The Best Cookbook Series in the World, against 10 competitors.

The Awards Ceremony was in Umeá (Sweden)

Edouard Cointreau, Founder and President of the Gourmand Awards stated:

«The selection of the Gourmand Awards give an overview of the best around the world. There is approximately 1% chance to be selected on this Gourmand Awards list!... This year there were 1558 selections from 227 countries and regions. It is the maximum we have ever had.  With the pandemic, people are coming back to cooking and reading. Authors and publishers are responding to the demand in quantity and quality.  When we started 26 years ago, there were only 25,000 cookbooks or food writing per year.  In total, there are now over 100,000 food and drink culture books and documents every year, in print or digital, free or paid, with our without ISBN.»

Edouard Cointreau and Deana Barroqueiro (Umeá - Sweden)

The History of Tastes (História dos Paladares), by Deana Barroqueiro, is the history of mankind through food. An amazing universe unknown to most people, and a treasure in danger all over the world, as lots of old recipes and traditions are at the brink of extinction everywhere. To save some of this immaterial world cultural heritage, especially the Portuguese, was the author’s main purpose.

Deana Barroqueiro spent 7 years researching from thousands of ancient and modern books and papers from all over the world, to build a universal living puzzle of flavors, feelings, sensations and traditions, connected with arts, literatures, sciences, religions, myths and tales of common or famous people, because food is inherent to all human activities, from all nations. So, the History of Tastes shows the evolution of flavors, culinary and gastronomy, around the world, from the Stone Age, throughout the centuries, to our Present, tormented by the Covid-19, with a hopeful glance at a sustainably Future.

The author pays particular attention to Portugal, which has influenced the gastronomy of so many nations, in the five continents, and received their influences as well, transforming the Mediterranean culinary in one of the richest and more diversified gastronomies in the planet,

This work is a trilogy – I Seduction, II Perdition (Damnation) and III Redemption, completed with 761 recipes. Being a historical novelist and a good cook, she put her soul and imagination in it, creating a playful and provocative books structure, like a puzzle, and exploring the very rich potential of the language about food – irony, proverbs, idiomatic sentences, intertextualities and so on.

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