Lonely Planet World Food Turkey

by Jim Masters, Dani Valent, Perihan Masters

Book Overview

The texts in this series offer recipes, cuisine highlights maps, and regional and city maps. As well as containing explorations of regional influences and traditional cooking they provide guides to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864500271
• ISBN13: 9781864500271
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

'Word Food Turkey' wins runner-up award

March 9, 2001. It's official! WF-T earns runner-up spot for Andre Simon Award. Lonely Planet was one of five runner-up winners in the food section of the Andre Simon Memorial Fund 2000 Book Awards announced in London last night. Its winner was World Food Turkey - competing against the likes of Nigel Slater who was the (overall) winner with Real Food and Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide. WFT was described by the panel as 'excellent' and 'groundbreaking' in its approach to food travel writing.

Short-listed for 'The Andre Simon Book Award'

We are pleased to advise that our *World Food Turkey* in collaboration with Dani Valent has been chosen as one of the books short-listed for 'The Andre Simon Memorial Fund Book Awards 2000'. These awards have been established in the UK since 1978. One of objective of the Fund is: "to benefit the public generally in the fields of food and drink, and one of the ways in which the Fund tries to meet this objective is through its book awards". Winners from previous years include: Rick Stein, Ken Hom, Jane Grigson and Josceline Dimbleby . In 2000, *World Food Turkey* has been short listed alongside the company of: 'Appetite' by Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate) 'Cooking at the Merchant House' by Shaun Hill (Conran Octopus) 'Flavours' by Donna Hay (Murdoch) 'No Place Like Home' by Rowley Leigh (Fourth Estate) 'Pickled, Potted and Canned' by Sue Shepherd (Headline) 'Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide' by Rick Stein (BBC) The Andre Simon Memorial Fund will be staging a reception to announce the winners of the food and drink awards and the special commendation award. It will be held in London in March 2001, date and venue to be confirmed.Jim and Perihan MastersP.S. Come join us at the 'Learning Practical Turkish' website for more on the subject of Turkey, its language, and its food! j & p