The Forum of Slavic Cultures with the headquarters in Ljubljana is proud to announce that we have received as many as three nominations for a prestigious international award of the Gourmand International. The decision on the best culinary books in the world will be made public in February while the award ceremony the will take place this May in China.
The forum of Slavic Cultures has published the first monograph on Slavic cuisines At the Table with the Slavs for which we have received as many as three nominations of the International Association Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the following categories: Best Eastern European cookbook, Best book with historically relevant recipes and Best foreign/international culinary book. The books from 209 countries have entered the competition for these prestigious awards. The best will be announced next month while the award ceremony will take place in May in China.
Author of the book Prof Janez Bogataj has included three recipes per country (altogether 39) and added various gastronomic and culinary characteristics of every country as well as the list of Slavic culinary events month by month at the end of the book. The foreword was written by famous Edouard Cointreau, President and founder of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, photos were contributed by Tomo Jeseničnik and the book was designed by Edi Berk.