Grub Street Ltd

General information

Grub Street is an award-winning small, niche independent publisher, publishing only books on cookery and military aviation history. Voted International Publisher of the Year at the World Cookbook Awards in 2000, a number of our cookbooks have won prizes over the years.

Elisabeth Luard, author of European Peasant Cookery, was winner of the Glenfiddich Award for Best Cookery Writer and the highly coveted Glenfiddich Trophy in 2007. Cakes Regional & Traditional by Julie Duff was one of only three books short listed for the prestigious Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year 2004 and when we reissued the Constance Spry Cookery Book which had been out of print for more than ten years it was selected by Waitrose Food Illustrated as one of the greatest cookbooks of all time. The Guardian says of it ‘If you can’t find a recipe for something anywhere else, it will be in Constance Spry.’

Shirley Booth was presented with a cheque and a beautiful hand made certificate at the Japanese Festival Awards for her award-winning Food of Japan 2000. This is a particularly prestigious award given for furthering Anglo-Japanese understanding. Chocolate: the definitive guide by Sara Jayne-Stanes won the Guild of Food Writers Jeremy Round Award for Best First Cookbook 2000 and was short-listed for an André Simon Award, and both Chocolate: the definitive guide and Flavours of Greece by Rosemary Barron won their respective categories at the World Cookbook Awards, 2000

It is highly satisfying to be acknowledged for our and our authors’ achievements since Grub Street’s aim is to publish the very best in contemporary and classic food writing.

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