One of the brilliant things about being involved with Observer Food Monthly is having the opportunity to meet the winners and runners-up of the annual OFM Awards, supported by Cuisinart. They may be shortlisted for the ever-popular Cheap Eats category, the best Sunday lunch, the reader's recipe of the year, or any one of our annual awards. I enjoy meeting them not because we have given them an award, but because you have. What they are doing, day in, day out, is enjoyed so much that you, our readers, have put pen to paper and voted for them.
There are other awards, too. These are decided upon by our panel of judges who give their time and experience to debate, enthusiastically, who will receive one of a small number of awards given to those we feel particularly deserve recognition.
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