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' Culinary Accolade of the 21st Century '

is pleased to announce the Winners in the

Annual International

Cookbooks & 'Culinary Arts' Awards - 2005

In 1985 NOREEN KINNEY, Pioneer of the New Irish Cuisine in the 1960's and 1970's in Ireland, initiated CORDON D' OR - GOLD RIBBON for use in her culinary arts work and title of a new cookbook. In 1990 NOREEN took the next step and defined use of the phrase ' CULINARY ACCOLADE OF THE 21st CENTURY ' . (Cordon Bleu - Blue Ribbon belongs to the 20th Century) The Supreme Accolade CORDON D' OR - GOLD RIBBON can be applied to any Culinary Arena at the pinnacle of its activities in the 'Culinary Arts ' theatre. It is awarded for superlative standards at local and international level, and continues to grow in prestige and stature in the 21st Century, with the emphasis now on the:

International Annual

COOK BOOKS & ' CULINARY ARTS ' AWARDS

Cordon d'Or - Gold Ribbon - Crystal Globe Award

(photograph by Ignacio Urquiza)

Entries into the Cookbooks & Culinary Arts Program 2005, came from across the Globe, as far afield as Australia, S. Korea and Europe, to Canada, Mexico, Korea and from across the United States. Several Entries were excellent, but there is only one Winner in each category. Therefore, the Judges decided to Jumpstart a few of the 2006 Awards; and with the approval of the Entrants, transferred Entries. It opened the door to more Award Winners.

The Awards event was held on Thursday December 8, 2005, at the St. Petersburg Main Library. Winners flew into Florida from Europe, Canada, Mexico, Korea and from across the United States. They were accompanied by family members and friends. The Winners accepted their crystal globe  trophies. The globe is placed strategically on a glass hand that stands on an engraved black marble base. (Turn the globe very gently and the globe spins.) The Cash Award of $1000 awarded to the Entry that the Judges feel deserves extra special recognition, was split between two winners in 2005. Members of the Press were present.

 

The Winners were given a one year complimentary membership in the Academy of the Culinary Arts for 2006.  This allows them to nominate and vote for the winners next year in several categories.  Full information on this can be found under the Academy of the Culinary Arts link on the Cordon d' Or - Gold Ribbon website.

The Master of Ceremonies Muirelle Montecalvo announced the Winners, and the Awards were presented by Noreen Kinney.  Awards Sponsor John Donovan and several Judges who were present at the event were introduced to the audience. Among the Forty-two people who were at the Awards Presentation, the following Winners flew into Florida to accept their Awards.

James O'Donnell                        Dublin, Ireland

Margaret Dickenson                  Canada

Larry Dickenson                         Canada

Ignacio Urquiza                           Mexico

Parisa Ambwani                          California

Barbara Tasch Ezratty               Maryland and Puerto Rico

Richard Gottesman                    Massachusetts and Puerto Rico

Yoon Yeom                                  South Korea

Winners unable to attend the event made arrangements for people present at the Ceremony, to accept the Awards on their behalf.

After the Awards ceremony, Noreen Kinney visited Culinary Website Winner Marti Martindale, who had intended to be at the event. She presented the Award to her. Cordon d' Or - Gold Ribbon wishes Marti a speedy recovery following her surgery.

 

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS OF THE AWARDS CEREMONY

   

Cordon d' Or - Gold Ribbon is pleased to announce the names of the Award Winners in the Cookbooks & Culinary Arts Program - 2005

 

CASH AWARD - $1000

CASH AWARD WINNERS:

Ignacio Urquiza - Photographer    &    Ginny Marcin - Journalist

Both Winners received a check for $500.00

Click on the Winner's Name to View photo and bio....

COOKBOOK AWARDS

'CULINARY ARTS' AWARDS

Publisher/Author Jill Norman - Literary Trustee for the Elizabeth David Estate, has expressed delight in accepting the Award for Elizabeth David. She has requested that the Crystal Globe Award be sent on to Ms. David's nephew, Stephan Grey, who lives in Australia and looks forward to receiving it. Elizabeth David died in 1992, and is acknowledged worldwide as the most influential Cookery Author and Writer in the 20 th Century. She changed the face of Cuisine in the United Kingdom, and her books on French, Italian, Mediterranean and English food are still in print through Penguin Books, and immensely popular. British TV are in the process of making a film on her life, and she has a great following across the globe. Elizabeth David received many Awards in her lifetime, and was decorated by Queen Elizabeth twice, with the OBE (Order of the British Empire) and the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). She was also made a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Agricole by the French government, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On February 13, 2003, Harvard University Gazette annouced that the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study had acquired the Elizabeth David papers, which will add to the Schlesinger Library's unparalleled culinary collections, which currently include the Julia Child papers, the MFK Fisher papers and more than 16,000 cookbooks. Elizabeth David's final book Harvest of the Cold Months was published posthumously in 1994.

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