Henry, Atlee among Guild of Food Writer winners

Mitchell Beazley author Diana Henry was a major winner at last night's Guild of Food Writer Awards 2015 (Tuesday 9th June). Henry received the Cookery Book of the Year Award for A Change of Appetite (Mitchell Beazley) as well as the Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year for work published in the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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