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Here is the 4.9 liter Maserati 151 from John Simone’s Maserati France and driven by André Simon and Maurice Trintignant braking for Arnage Corner during the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 20, 1964. They would retire in the 9th hour with electrical and braking problems. Simone’s latest version of his Maserati 151, originally built for the 1962 Le Mans, had uprated and fuel-injected performance with more…

Ahead of tomorrow's @andresimonaward read about all the shortlisted food and drink books #AndréSimon

The 2022 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards shortlist has been announced ahead of the awards ceremony to be held on central London on 14 March 2023. Established over four decades ago to celebrate the very best of contemporary food and drink writing, this year’s nominated books cover themes which range from foraged foods to an exploration of grief through cooking, the remarkable medicinal…

Ahead of the announcement on 8 March 2022 of the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2020, cookbookreview.blog are delighted to bring you a special feature that includes reviews of all the shortlisted food books along with a selection of recipes from some of the books and an interview with this year’s Food Book Award Assessor, Yemisi Aribisala. To find out more about the awards and keep up…

Delighted to be able to publish this insightful interview with writer Yemisi Aribisala who is the Food Assessor for the 2021 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards @AndreSimonAward to be announced 8 March.

How did you get involved with the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards? Salt of the earth Xanthe Clay, Columnist, Chef, and trustee of the food prize sent me a message inviting me to help assess the 2021 Food Books. My first interaction with André Simon was an email titled The André Simon Shortlist 2016 EMBARGOED. I was sitting in the Western Cape stunned that my book Longthroat Memoirs: Soups,…

As part of a cookbookreview.blog special feature, in the lead up to this year's @AndreSimonAward 2020, I interviewed Food Book Award Assessor @lisamarkwell about how she went about reading and judging 140 cookbooks in a matter of a few months.

Ahead of the announcement  of this year’s prestigious André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards on 3 March 2021, Andy Lynes spoke to Sunday Times Food Editor Lisa Markwell about her first year as Food Book Award Assessor and what it was like reading 140 cookbooks in the space of a few months.  Andy Lynes: When did you begin the judging process? Lisa Markwell: Last November was really when everything…

Andre Simon awards special feature: An interview with chairman Nick Lander

Nick Lander is the restaurant correspondent of the Financial Times, author and hospitality expert. His first book, The Art of The Restaurateur became an Economist Book of The Year in 2012. He is the former proprietor of L’Escargot in Soho and has acted as a hospitality consultant to arts organisations across London including The Southbank Centre; the British Museum; and the Royal Albert Hall…

@AndreSimonAward special featureat cookbookreview.blog : an interview with @meerasodha

Chef, food writer and author Meera Sodha is the independent assessor of the food category for the 2018 Andre Simon Food and Drink book awards.

Born in Lincolnshire to Ugandan Indian parents, her love for her ancestors’ food and a desire to keep their food traditions alive led her to capture her mother’s recipes from her childhood in her first cookbook Made in India, which was published by…