The International Association of Culinary Professionals announced the winners of its 2025 Cookbook Awards (along with other food media and writing awards) at its 2025 Summit held in Brooklyn, New York on November 5. The IACP presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Pati Jinich, Susan Magrino and legendary cookbook editor Rux Martin. The Trailblazers honored this evening included Fany Gerson and Ayesha Nurdjaja.
Turning to the book awards, Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard were the evening’s biggest winners, taking home the prize for the best Book of the Year for Koreaworld: A Cookbook. The book also snagged the award for Book Design.
The IACP continued its partnership with The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts for the IACP Julia Child First Book Award, which went to Sift: The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb another big winner of the evening, because she also took won the Baking category. The third annual Toni Tipton-Martin award was given to Alana Al-Hatlani and Abena Anim-Somuah.
When the IACP releases its full list of winners that includes restaurant reviews, narrative food writing, and other media awards we will update the post to include a link. Now on to the winners of each cookbook category! You can see the complete list of finalists and winners on our IACP 2025 page.
- American: Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a Cajun Life by Melissa M. Martin
- Baking: Sift: The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb
- Book design: Koreaworld: A Cookbook by Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard
- International: My Egypt – Cooking from My Roots by Michael Mina
- Literary or historical food writing: Why I Cook by Tom Colicchio
- Chefs and restaurants: The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola
- Health and nutrition: The Elements of Baking: Making any Recipe Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free or Vegan by Katarina Cermelj
- General: Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat by New York Times Cooking and Emily Weinstein
- Food photography and styling: Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California’s Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia and Andrea Lawson Gray
- Reference and technical: One Thousand Vines: A New Way to Understand Wine by Pascaline Lepeltier
- Single subject: The Vegetable Eater: The New Playbook for Cooking Vegetarian by Cara Mangini
- Wine, beer or spirits: The Cocktail Atlas: Around the World in 200+ Drinks – A Cocktail Book by Chris Vola
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!