The UK Guild of Food Writers Awards 2023
The UK Guild of Food Writers is the UK’s professional association of food writers and broadcasters, and is the longest-established and largest of its kind.
- First Book Award
- International or Regional CookBook Award
- Specialist or Single Subject Cookbook Award
- General Cookbook Award
- Drinks Book Award
- Food Book of the Year Award
- Recipe Writing Award
- Food Writing Award
- Investigative Food Work
- Food Broadcast or Podcast Award
- Food Magazine or Section Award
- Restaurant Writing Award
- Drinks Writing Award
View previous years’ award winners: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

First Book Award
A Dark History of Sugar by Neil Buttery
IndexedInternational or Regional Cookbook Award
The Nutmeg Trail: A Culinary Journey Along the Ancient Spice Route by Eleanor Ford

Specialist or Single Subject Cookbook Award
A Dark History of Sugar by Neil Buttery
IndexedGeneral Cookbook Award
Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many by Jeremy Lee

Drinks Book Award
Cider Planet: Exploring the Producers, Practices, and Unique Traditions of Craft Cider and Perry from Around the World by Claude Jolicoeur

Food Book of the Year Award
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss

Food Writing Award
Bee Wilson for her work in The Guardian and The London Review of Books
IndexedRecipe Writing Award
Mark Hix for his work in the Telegraph.

Investigative Food Work Award
Jayne Buxton for The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won’t improve your health or save the planet

Food Broadcast or Podcast Award
Lewis Bassett for The Full English

Online Food Writing Award
Bald Flavours for his restaurant review work

Food Magazine or Section Award
Pit Magazine edited by Helen Graves

Drinks Writing Award
Mark Dredge