Cynthia Nelson’s cookbook cops award

Journalist, food writer and food stylist Cynthia Nelson’s Tastes Like Home: My Caribbean Cookbook last year copped the prize of Best First Cookbook at the Jamaican national level of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

A release from the book’s publishers, Ian Randle Publishers , said that the book entered the award on the urging of its President Edouard Cointreau after catching a glimpse of the book at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.

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