From star names to local favourites, a celebration of the inspiring work of this year’s winners
Welcome to our annual awards issue. This year our worthy winners come from Barry and Belfast, Sheffield and Bath, Yorkshire, Cornwall and Manchester.
The awards themselves are as diverse as their geography – Best Cheap Eats is a ramen joint in Northern Ireland; specialised cookery classes for people living with cancer; a perfectionist cheesemaker working almost single-handedly, and a brilliant bar situated in a former public loo. There are awards for a team feeding the growing number of homeless people with donations from supermarkets, restaurants and wholesalers; another for purveyors of a fine Sunday lunch in Yorkshire, and an Instagram account that is more than just pretty pictures. Our Best Food Personality, Jack Monroe, is both cookery writer and tenacious campaigner. Author and blogger, she understands first hand what it’s like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table. Jack’s cookbooks and her internet archive of recipes for eating well on a low budget are well known, but the award is as much for her unflagging campaigning work with food banks, supermarkets and those in power. (Although her ability to send any internet troll skulking back to their cave is worth a gong in my book.)
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