A cookbook written to raise money for Tasmania’s Devil Island Project has won an award in the Gourmand Charity and Fund-raising Section of an international competition.
‘A Devil of a Cookbook’. Written by Launceston chef and cookery writer Fiona Hoskin and published by Thermomix won the Australia-Pacific section of the competition and so entered the finals. The Gourmand World cookbook awards were held on Saturday night in Paris. All money raised by sales of the book go to supporting the Devil Island Project’s latest venture ‘The Thermomix Great Devil Wall of Tasmania’.in association with the Save the Tasmanian Devil Programme.
This involves building a 5 km barrier across the Freycinet peninsular and so rewilding the Freycinet National Park with disease free Devils.
The Devil of Cookbook features delightful natural images of Tasmania, local stories and Tasmanian recipes.
After just the first four months after publication, the book had raised $130,000.
The Devil Island Project was founded in 2008 by chief executive officer Bruce Englefield.
Today, the project is a partnership between the Save the Tasmanian Devil program and the state government.
Mr Englefield said plans were under way to build more Great Devil Walls of Tasmania including a 40 Kilometre barrier across the Woolnorth property in the states northwest where there are 600 disease free devils needing protection.
“The disease is spreading seven kilometres a year, we are running out of time,” he said.
The Chairman of the Devil Island Project, Kerry Finch, says Tasmania cannot afford to lose its Devils.
This book award will give publicity to the Devil Island project around the world, Mr Finch said.
“It will focus international attention on the plight of our Devils and our attempts to save them,” he said.
Tthis was the competition Fiona was up against—note the Michelle Obama name! Fiona won the Australia/Pacific region.
6. – Charity & Fund Raising
F01 – Africa
Benin – Cotonou (Fatom – Fondation Atefomais)
Ghana – Taste of Africa Cookbook (USAID West Africa Trade Hub)
Spain – Recetario Africa en los Fogones (Casafrica – Habitafrica)
South Africa – Stella’s Sephardic Table, Stella Cohen (Hoberman)
Zambia – The DSA Cookbook (Kazuma)
F02 – North America
Canada – Breast Wishes for the men in our Lives, Breast Friends (Gateway)
Canada – Les Recettes du Kiosque de Limonade, Katrine Paradis, Marie-José Morin (Trécarré)
Canada – 100 Recettes pour Toi Mon Coeur, Marylène Langlois (Transcontinental)
USA – The Microsoft Cookbook (Microsoft)
USA – Twist it Up, Jack Witherspoon (Chronicle)
USA – American Grown, Michelle Obama (Crown)
F04 – Latin America
Chile – 20 Buenas Razones para Comer en Familia (Fundación de la Familia)
Colombia – Recetas de San Basilio de Palenque, Cocina Criolla de Vedda Vedda (Fundación Transformemos-Ministerio de Educación Nacional)
Mexico – Children of the Refugio Cookbook, Seth J. Cloutman (Rengio)
F05 – Asia
Bahrain – 50Th Anniversary Cookbook (St.Christopher School)
Brunei – Rasa and Warna. Flavours and Colours, Siti Kaprawi (Brunei Social Council – Pentagram Design)
Hong Kong – The Clearwater Bay School Cookbook (Gear Printing)
Singapore – Spice Potpouri, Dr. Uma Rajan (E-Quill Media)
Thailand – Royal Project Foundation, Suthipong Suraya, Photos Karb Style (Modern Center)
F06 – Australia / Pacific
Australia – Lentil as Anything (Ilura)
Australia – Cooking from the Heart (Haileybury School)
Australia – Devil of a cookbook, Fiona Hoskin, (Thermomix in Australia)
Australia – The Sustainable Table, Cassie Duncan, Hayley Giachan (Sustainable Press)
New Zealand – Nic’s Cookbook (Scholastic)
New Zealand – Volcanic Kitchens, Egger (Lastingimages)
New Zealand – NZ Rugby Kitchen, NZ Rugby Foundation (Random House NZ)
F07 – Europe
France – Claude de Chez Maxim’s, Alain Bernard (Arka)
Ireland – Get Cooking (Beam Services)
Malta – Kidney for Life Cookbook, Dr. Caruana, James Muscat (Vivian Corp.-Transplant Malta)
Scotland – The Killer Cookbook (Morgue)
Spain – Recetas con Historia (Fundación Juan Muñoz)
Sweden – Gudarnas Föda, Anna-Sofia Winroth (Gefle Chocolaterie-Gävle)
Turkey – Bir Omur Bin Tutam Lezzet, Melahat Kinoglu, Mehves Pisak (Meines)
Kerry Finch Legislative Councillor for Rosevears
