Seventy chef demonstrations, 36 wine, beer and spirit tastings and lots of trade talk are on the menu at 3rd Paris Cookbook Fair, taking place March 7-9.
How Long Can Cookbooks and Restaurant Guides Survive in the Digital Age?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s story looks at the second edition of the Paris Cookbook Fair, which is offering a professional venue for cookbook publishers to gather together annually to talk shop and trade rights. Time was that you had a shelf in your kitchen laden with cookbooks; today, all you need is an iPad or a smartphone to look up …
A Second Helping of Edouard Cointreau’s Paris Cookbook Fair
By Olivia Snaije Last year Edouard Cointreau, the force behind the Gourmand Cookbook Awards, extended his reach further into the professional culinary world and launched the Paris Cookbook Fair, a trade fair exclusively dedicated to books about food and drink. Yesterday, on a brilliantly sunny Sunday in Paris, the second edition of the Fair ended and while the final count …
Gourmand’s List of the 57 Best Cookbooks from Around the World in 2010
By Edward Nawotka The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards have announced the winners for individual “best of” awards for cookbooks from 57 countries. One overall winner will be announced on March 3, 2011 on the opening day of the 2011 Paris Cookbook Fair. The Gourmand organization also released stats on the worldwide cookbook industry and cited particularly strong growth in Asia …
Video from the Paris Cookbook Fair
by Hannah Johnson As both an exhibitor and a reporter for Publishing Perspectives, Olivia Snaije explored the first-ever Paris Cookbook Fair this year. You can read her blog post about the fair, or watch the video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk0FmYnq3mM
Cookbook Trade Fair Pleases the Palate
By Olivia Snaije PARIS: The first edition of the Paris Cookbook Festival wrapped up on Monday with most participants judging the specialized trade fair a delicious success, barring minor complaints about lack of signage and poor heating. While for some smaller French publishers with books aimed specifically at the French market, it was less of a positive experience, the larger …
Chew on This: Paris Inaugurates a Book Fair for Foodies
By Olivia Snaije PARIS: It makes perfect sense that the first international cookbook trade fair will be held in Paris — a city that, to many, remains the culinary capitol of the world. The Paris Cookbook Fair runs this week, from February 12-15, and its founder, Edouard Cointreau, hopes to unite the cosmopolitan network of food lovers and professionals he …