It has been the fair with the big stars: Alain Ducasse, Michel Roux, Alain Dutournier, Michel Roth, Guy Martin, Alain Gagnaire and many more attended the third edition of the Paris Cookbook Fair.

More than 100 publishers were present with stands, a big conference program offered a lot of topics for professionals and in in two show kitchens stars and upcoming stars performed for the professional and public audience.

Star-chef Guy Martin from France (picture), Chef Ramzi from Lebanon, Sahrap Soysal from Turkey and Xavier Malandran from France have been the big international stars at the fair. And Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma from India thrilled a professional crowd of 200 people with their "Highway on my Plate"-show.

In the French show kitchen stars as patissier Christophe Felder, three star-chef Michel Roth or celebrity chef Cyril Rouquet thrilled the audience with their unique shows.  

Gourmand President Edouard Cointreau presented "Cookbook Collection: France", a book that unites recipes from all the Gourmand Award-winning cookbooks of the past concerning French cuisine, with stars as Julie Andrieu, Alain Ducasse, Guy Martin, Gerard Depardieu, Pascal Aussignac, but also stars from other countries as Léa Linster from Luxembourg, Richard Grausman from the US or Eyvin Hellström from Norway.

The "Chef´s Charity Cookbook" for the victims of the New Zealand earthquake has been presented to the professional visitors by the editors and with some of the celebrity chefs, who send contributions for the book, Edith Kubiena from Austria, James McIntosh from the UK, Chakall from Germany and many more.

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More than 1,000 guests attended the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the theater of Folies Bergère in Paris on March 6. The "Best Cookbook of the Year" is "Patagonian Cuisine" by Francisco Fantini from Chile. Rafael Osterling from Peru won´the award for "Best Chef Book in the World" and the Indian TV chefs Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma were honored for their cookbook "Highway on my plate" as "Best TV Cookbook".

Very strong winner this year were Austria and France with several Gourmand Awards in different categories.

"We want to give honour to wine and cookbooks", says Gourmand President Edouard Cointreau.

Here you can find all the winners of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award:

http://www.cookbookfair.com/index.php/gourmand-awards/gourmand-awards-news/item/39-gourmand-world-cookbook-awards-winners

Paris Cookbook Fair is a big meeting of cookbook professionals and a lot of fun.

From March 7 -11 Paris will again become the capital of the international wine and cookbook scene. The Paris Cookbook Fair will bring together publishers, authors, photographers, printers and journalists from all around the world.

At the event center „Le 104" more than 120 exhibitors and more than 5,000 professional visitors will come together for 5 days of business, information, trendscouting and fun.

Exhibitors

At the top level of Le 104, international publishers will have 65% of the space, up from 55% last year, while the French have 35%. In fact, the foreigners were nearly all limited to trade stands, while the French have bigger individual stands. There are many more exhibiting foreigners exhibitors, as their stands are smaller.

For the French, selling to their public is very important, to balance their budget for the fair, as they usually do not take into consideration the sales of foreign rights in their budget. Until the past two years and Paris Cookbook Fair, there has been extremely little sale of foreign rights at book fairs in France. It was done in London or Frankfurt previously.

At the lower level at Le 104, the space is evenly distributed. China, Malaysia, the Argentinian Wine Pentathlon and the International Show Kitchen are on one side, with Italy and International beers. In the middle there is the Wine Bar. On the other side, we have the Book Binding Exhibition, L’Arrière-Cuisine, the French Show Kitchen, and Rare Books.

Fair Focus

China will be the Guest of Honor at Paris Cookbook Fair. In an exhibition the best cookbooks and wine books from China and about China will be shown. Great Chinese chefs, authors and publishers will be present and offer delicacies from the Land of the Middle.

Beer is the other focus of the fair. Besides an exhibition of beer books, breweries will present their products and publishers and authors invite for beer tastings according to beer book presentations.

Show Kitchen

In the International Show kitchen you will see a celebrity chef performing every hour. Again in the French Show kitchen national chefs will show their skills and present their books.