Professor Abdul Bassit Wins Gourmand International Award 2023

Sudan Events

Sudanese professor Abdul Bassit Marioud won the Gourmand International Award 2023 with his scientific book (Gum Arabic).
In an amazing festival by the Culinary Arts Commision from the Saudi Ministry of Culture
The Gourmand Awards 2023, with 205 participating countries, a huge book exhibition, chefs, authors, publishers and diplomats coming from 71 countries and hundreds of thousands of visitors at the Saudi Feast Food Festival in Riyadh, the largest of its kind in the Middle East, organized by the Culinary Arts Commission of Ministry of Culture.
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. Every year, they honour the best food and wine books, printed or digital, as well as food television
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are the only truly international competition. They are the “Oscars” for food and wine books.

The objectives of the Awards are:
• Reward and honour those who “cook with words”.• Help readers find the best out of the 24000 food and wine books produced every year.• To help publishers with international rights to translate and distribute food and wine books.• To help book retailers find the 50 food and wine books that each year should be offered to clients.• To create an opportunity to access the major markets in English, German, Spanish or French for books originated in other languages.• To increase knowledge of, and respect for, food and wine culture, which promotes peace.

The winners in each language are announced in November, and compete for the Best in the World, announced in April of the following year at a gala dinner.This year, the Gourmand Award Ceremony takes place in Olympia Theatre, London, on April 13.

“Gourmand has created a wide spectrum of representationand entertainment with the awards ceremony: at the samemoment glamorous and humorous, elegant and funny.”