loveFOOD wins Guild of Food Writers award

The loveFOOD editorial team (all three of us!) took to the stage last night after winning the Best New Media Award at the star-studded Guild of Food Writers Awards.

Stone the crows, we've only gone and scooped the Best New Media gong at last night's Guild of Food Writers Awards! The judges liked not only our recipes and interviews, but also the fact that we cover important food issues such as food poverty.

The winners

The annual event was attended by the great and the good of the UK's thriving food writing scene, with the likes of Ken Hom, Jay Rayner and Darina Allen all picking up awards. Writer and broadcaster Yotam Ottolenghi and Hattie Ellis both picked up two awards each. Ottolenghi won the Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist for work in The Guardian’s Weekend magazine, and the Cookery Book Award for Jerusalem (co-authored with Sami Tamimi). Meanwhile, Hattie Ellis’ What to Eat? 10 Chewy Questions About Food won both the Miriam Polunin Award for Work on Healthy Eating and the Food Book Award. The Food Broadcast award went to Ken Hom and Ching-He Huang for Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure, made by Keo Films for BBC Two. 

Guild President Jane Suthering commented: "As the craft of food writing and broadcasting continues to grow and change, it is important for the Guild to recognise true talent in the field. It was fabulous to see our worthy winners congratulated by their peers at another wonderful awards party. Congratulations to both shortlistees and winners." There's a full list of winners here. 

Drinks are on us

Team loveFOOD celebrated well into the night, though we can't remember much after a round of Negronis. This morning we are in dire need of our 'top ten hangover foods' feature… Well done us. 

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