Tablemanners

Top: Tablemanners Bottom: Authors & Design Artists: Gulliver Johnson & Janie Conley-Johnson celebrating award (Photo: © 2012 TIBORFOTO.COM)

Hi Everyone, Antigua & Barbuda beat out front runners Italy, France and Germany to cop first place and the title of Best Design in the recently concluded prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in their nominated category! Writing that sentence and reading it aloud is such sweet pleasure.

Tablemanners: A Culinary Review of Hospitality in Antigua & Barbuda, by the husband and wife team of Gulliver Johnson & Janie Conley-Johnson, is a stunning book. Weighing a little over 7½ pounds with an open breath of 34 inches, it is easy to see why this book won best design. The cover reeks of sophistication with the grey title delicately but emphatically placed halfway down the predominantly white cover. A pair of shiny-silver fork and knife placed to one side with words: Antigua Barbuda, separately,