Winners of the Australian Food Media Awards 2003

Simon Johnson Award for Best Hard-Cover Food-Related Book
Winner: Stephanie Alexander for Cooking & Travelling in South-West France , published by Penguin Books Australia.
Highly Commended: David Thompson for Thai Food, published by Penguin Books Australia.

Barilla Award for Best Hard-Cover Recipe Book
Winner: Maggie Beer for Maggie's Table, published by Penguin Books Australia.
Highly Commended: Murdoch Books for The Food of France .

Füritechnics Award for Best Soft-Cover Food-Related Book
Winner: Stephen Downes for Advanced Australian Fare, published by Allen & Unwin.
Highly Commended: Belinda Jeffery for Belinda Jeffery's Tried-and-True Recipes, published by Penguin Books Australia; and Bill Granger for Bills Food, published by Murdoch Books.

Australian Apple and Pear Growers Award for Best Soft-Cover Recipe Book
Winner: The Australian Women's Weekly Cookbooks for Kids' Birthday Cakes.
Highly Commended: Gabriel Gaté for How to Teach Kids to Cook, published by Allen & Unwin.

The Margaret Fulton Award for Outstanding Food Book Of The Year
Presented to: Stephen Downes for Advanced Australian Fare, published by Allen & Unwin.

Brown Brothers Award for Best Food and Wine Writing
Winner: Will Studd and Max Allen for "Cheese and Wine", Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine.
Highly Commended: Huon Hooke for "I'd Like a Bottle of . . .", Good Living section, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Food Media Club Australia Award for Best Food Article on an Australian Product
Winner: John Newton for "Where To Buy Duck", Metropolitan section, The Sydney Morning Herald.
Highly Commended: Christine Salins for Fine Cuts: "Company Keen to Beef Up the Industry", Food and Wine section, The Canberra Times.

Dairy Farmers Award for Best Food Section within a Newspaper
Winner: Good Living section, The Sydney Morning Herald.
Highly Commended: Epicure section, The Age.

Grand Marnier Award for Best New Writer, An Encouragement Award for a Writer of Less than Five Years' Experience in Food Writing
Winner: Matt Preston for articles published in the Epicure section of The Age.
Highly Commended: Sally Webb for articles published in Vogue Entertaining + Travel.

Vittoria Coffee Award for "Best Coffee Experience" Communication
Winner: Food Lovers' Guide to Australia for "Coffee Art", SBS TV.
Highly Commended: Tracey Meharg for "Bean There", Australian Table.

Sydney Olympic Park Boulevard Market Award for Best Food-Based Website
Winner: The Australian Women's Weekly on www.ninemsn.com.au/aww
Highly Commended: Sydney Markets for "Fresh For Kids" on www.freshforkids.com.au

Westfield Bondi Junction Award for Best Print Food Advertisement
Winner: Grey Worldwide for Always Fresh.
Highly Commended: Brown Melhuish Fishlock for the Lamb campaign for Meat & Livestock Australia.

The Lifestyle Channel Award for Best Television Food Commercial
Winner: Clemenger BBDO ( Melbourne ) for the Leggo's campaign.
Highly Commended: Department of Health, Western Australia , for "Go For 2 Fruit & 5 Veg" campaign.

Food Media Club Australia Award for Best Television Food Segment
Winner: Neil Perry for "Risotto", Food Source, The LifeStyle Channel.
Highly Commended: Iain Hewitson for "With a Glass of Wine", Huey's TV Dinner, Channel 10.

Australian Dairy Corporation Award for Best Food Article
Winner: John Newton for "A Mountain Blue", Divine
Highly Commended: David Dale for "Diet of Change", Good Living section, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Meat & Livestock Australia Award for Best Article on Culinary Tourism In Australia
Winner: Melinda Houston for " Land of Plenty ", Epicure section, The Age.
Highly Commended: John Newton for "Secrets of Sydney", Epicure section, The Age.

Food Media Club Australia Award for Best Recipe Writing (Advertising)
Winner: Donna Hay magazine for Celebrate Flavour, a Campbell's advertising feature.
Highly Commended: Janelle Bloom for Quick Recipes For Fresh Mushrooms for the 2001 - 2002 mushroom recipe series.

Master Foods of Australia Award for Best Food/Lifestyle Magazine Recipe Feature
Winner: Donna Hay for "The Straight and Narrow", Donna Hay magazine.
Highly Commended: Alexandra McCowan and Frances Abdallaoui for "Pasta Pronto", The Australian Women's Weekly.

Kenwood Kitchen Appliances Award for Best Food Stylist/Best Food Photographer, Awarded To a Single Food-Related Published Photograph
Winners: Kristen Anderson and Ben Dearnley for "Creamy Chocolate Pudding with Chocolate Sauce", Vogue Entertaining + Travel.
Highly Commended: Donna Hay and Con Poulos for "Vongole Pasta", Donna Hay's Modern Classics, Book 1.

Food Media Club Australia Industry Peer Award for Best Overall Contribution to the Communication of Food
Presented to: Ian Hemphill