The Glenfiddich Awards – for many years the UK’s leading award for food writing – are no more, reported the Diary of yesterday’s Evening Standard.
It had already been announced that the year 2008 was to see no Awards, and it appears that the decision has now been taken that they will not be revived next year or subsequently.
The Awards were the only widely-recognised UK award for food-related writing. They could sometimes be criticised for incestuousness – every major restaurant critic, for example, could generally rely on getting the award in the relevant category on the ‘Buggins’s turn’ principle – but, overall, their disappearance is to be regretted.
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