Pakistan’s leading independent publishers, Markings, are proud to announce that their fifth title, also their first dessert based cook book, ‘Deliciously Yours’ by Pakistani chocolatier Lal Majid of the eponymous Lals Chocolate, has been honoured by the prestigious Madrid base Gourmand World Cookbook Award committee as the Best Pastry Sweets Cookbook in the world – beating culinary giants Italy and France who were also shortlisted for this category at the annual
At the ‘Beijing Cookbook Fair’ Markings Publishing also presented their sixth title, ‘Zaiqay Frontier Ke – Dera Ismail Khan Kae Bhulay Bisray Pakwan’, translated as ‘Flavours of the Frontier – Forgotten Recipes from Dera Ismail Khan’ written by the late Pushpa Kumari Bagai.
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau and endeavour to recognize and honour the best authors, publishers, food writers and all those who ‘cook with words’. The international jury that adjudicated entries in the ‘Best in the World’ categories comprised of Edouard Cointreau, Chairman of the Awards Committee, Sara Baer-Sinnott, President of the Oldways Exchange and Trust Foundation (USA) and Jean Jacques Ratier, Director of Hospitality School of Dordogne.
