Winners of the Australian Food Media Awards 2006

Simon Johnson Award for Excellence in a Hard-cover Food-related Book
Winner: Gay Bilson for “Plenty: digressions on food”, published by Penguin Group (Australia).
Highly Commended: Neale Whitaker for “The Accidental Foodie”, published by Murdoch Books.

Barilla Award for Best Hard-cover Recipe Book
Winner: Damien Pignolet for “French”, published by Penguin Group (Australia)
Highly Commended: Stefano de Pieri for “Modern Italian Food”, published by Hardie Grant Books

Füri Knives Award for Excellence in a Soft-cover Food-related Book
Winner: Anthea Paul for “Girlosophy – Real Girls Eat”, published by Allen & Unwin
Highly Commended: Joanna Savill for “The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney”, published by Allen & Unwin

Australian Apple and Pear Growers Award for Best Soft-cover Recipe Book Under $30
Winner: Loukie Werle for “Real Food”, published by ACP Publishing and Media 21 Publishing
Highly Commended: Pamela Clark for “Cupcakes”, produced by ACP Books, published by ACP Magazines

Australian Apple and Pear Growers Award for Best Soft-cover Recipe Book Over $30
Winner: Kate McGhie for “Cook”, published by Hardie Grant Books
Highly Commended: Pamela Clark for “Food We Love”, produced and published by ACP Books

Fine Wine Partners Award for Best Food and Wine Writing
Winners: Lyndey Milan and Colin Corney for “Balance: matching food and wine”, published by Lothian Books
Highly Commended: Will Studd and Max Allen for “Upper Cut”, Gourmet Traveller Wine magazine

Australian Mushroom Growers Award for Best Food Article
Winner: Necia Wilden for “The ones that get away”, Epicure, The Age
Highly Commended: Joanna Savill for “Super Bowl”, Travel + Leisure Australia

Hahn Premium Award for Best Food Section in a Metropolitan Newspaper
Winner: Epicure, The Age
Highly Commended: Good Living, The Sydney Morning Herald

Tooheys New Award for Best Food Section in a Regional Newspaper
Winner: “Cooking with Peter Howard”, Friday Magazine, Rural Press
Highly Commended: Food and wine section, GT Magazine, Geelong Advertiser

Calypso™ Mango Award for Best Recipe Feature in a Newspaper or Newspaper Magazine
Winner: Matt Preston for “Preserving knowledge”, Epicure, The Age
Highly Commended: Brigitte Hafner for “Tender as a lamb”, Epicure, The Age

Peter Howard Award for Best New Writer
Winner: Emma Knowles for articles published in Australian Gourmet Traveller
Highly Commended: Valli Little for articles published in Delicious magazine

Vittoria Coffee Award for “Best Coffee Experience” Communication
Winner: Tracey Platt for “Grounds for dismissal”, Australian Good Taste
Highly Commended: John Newton for “A cheeky little bean, grown in Ethiopia . . . ” , Good Living, The Sydney Morning Herald

VAFMA Award for Best Food-based Website
Winner: Marina Elyeh, Sydney Markets Limited, for www.freshforkids.com.au
Highly Commended: Anthony Fisk, editor, and Patrick Cheah, eTranslate, Australian Egg Corporation, for www.eggs.org.au

Ocean Spray® Award for Best Nutrition Writing
Winner: Karen Inge for “Let’s Eat Right! for Kids”, published by Brolly Books
Highly Commended: Arlene Normand for “The 10 commandments of losing weight”, Penguin Group (Australia)

Dairy Australia Award for Best Food Article on an Australian Product
Winner: Matthew Evans for “Shell shocked”, Good Living, The Sydney Morning Herald
Highly Commended: Sue Bennett for “Matter of Fat: Line up to meat the king cuts”, Style, The Daily Telegraph

Meat & Livestock Australia Award for Best Article on Culinary Tourism in Australia
Winner: Simon Thomsen for “Heaven & Hell”, Travel + Leisure Australia
Highly Commended: Matthew Evans for “Vine & Dine”, Travel + Leisure Australia

Fine Food and Good Food & Wine Show Award for Best Recipe Writing in Advertising
Winner: Susan Dodd for Sydney Markets Seasonal Recipe Card Collection, 2005/06
Highly Commended: Donna Hay magazine for “Fresh is Best” for San Remo

MasterFoods Award for Best Food/Lifestyle Magazine Recipe Feature
Winner: Andy Harris for “Aegean Catch”, Australian Gourmet Traveller
Highly Commended: Donna Hay magazine for “Join the greens”, Donna Hay magazine

Kenwood Kitchen Appliances Award for Best Food Stylist/Best Food Photographer
Winners: Julz Beresford and Ben Dearnley for images published in Delicious magazine
Highly Commended: Steve Pearce and Con Poulos for images published in Donna Hay magazine

Crystal Bay® Prawns Award for Best Print Food Advertisement
Winner: Meat & Livestock Australia for the Lamb campaign, Australia Day 2006
Highly Commended: BCM Partnership for “Ugly is only skin-deep” for Sunbeam Foods – Angas Park Prunes

Alfa One Rice Bran Oil Award for Best Radio Food Segment
Winner: Victoria Hansen for “BiteSize Cooking”, broadcast on 60 radio stations nationally
Highly Commended: Lyndey Milan and Murray Wilton for “Food with Lyndey Milan”, Radio 2GB, Murray Wilton’s “The Good Life”

KR Castlemaine Foods Award for Best Television Food Commercial
Winner: Meat & Livestock Australia for the Lâmb campaign, Mothers Day 2006
Highly Commended: Kate Beattie of General Mills, and Robi Sweiden and Mel Coenen of Saatchi & Saatchi for “True Genius”, Old El Paso’s Stand ’n Stuff taco kits

Sandhurst Fine Foods Award for Best Television Food Segment – the Bernard King Award
Winner: Joanna Savill, Producer and Presenter of “Sea Cucumber”, The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, Series 5, SBS TV
Highly Commended: Maeve O’Meara, Producer and Presenter of “Molokheya”, The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, Series 5, SBS TV

Le Cordon Bleu Award for Best Investigative Food Journalism
Winner: Cherry Ripe for “Organic Farming at Highgrove”, Big Ideas, ABC Radio National
Highly Commended: Roy Eccleston for “Fat Fighters”, The Weekend Australian Magazine

The Margaret Fulton Award – recognising potential in an emerging recipe author
Winner: Lisa Featherby for recipes published in Notebook magazine
Highly Commended: Matt Preston for recipes published in Epicure, The Age
Merit Award: Lucy Buhler for recipes published in Australian Table magazine

Food Media Club Australia Award for Best Overall Contribution to the Communication of Food
Winner: Bill Granger