English Alumna Wins New Food Writer Award

Posted on 27 March 2019

Congratulations to York English alumna Elly McCausland, who has been announced joint-winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food Writers 2019.

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The Jane Grigson Trust is delighted to announce that, for the first time, the judges have decided to award the prize to two of the shortlisted authors: Elly McCausland for The Botanical Kitchen and Dan Saladino for The Ark of Taste.

In The Botanical Kitchen (to be published by Absolute Press, March 2020), food blogger and literature lecturer Elly McCausland takes an in-depth look at our love affair with every part of the plant – fruits, flowers, leaves and seeds, from orchards to the tropics, tea leaves to tayberries – and shows how they enhance flavour, dramatically shifting and developing the character of a dish.

Chair of judges of the Jane Grigson Trust Award, Geraldene Holt, comments:

"The field of applications was the strongest we’ve yet received, with an amazingly wide variety of subjects and treatments, and the decision of who should be the final winner was incredibly difficult to make. The judges have therefore decided that, with such talented entrants, the award should be made to two authors who between them exemplify the best of modern food writing".

Read the whole article here.