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The BrittonBritton/PA&Co posse receives the grand prize from jury member Karsten Thurfjell in beautiful Grythyttan church. Photographer: Clarence Werdin

PA&Co — More than Cookbook of the Year

| Oct 25, 2007 | 0 comments

We were greatly honored to be awarded the grand prize of Best All Categories by The Swedish Meal Academy at the annual Meal Litterature of the Year prize ceremony the past weekend in beautiful Grythyttan in western Sweden, the high seat for Swedish gastronomy.

It’s very nice when hard uncompromising work and relentless effort is awarded — in particular, of course, when it’s you yourself who is the subjct for such awards. We were most greatful and honored when The Swedish Meal Academy, seated in magnificent and historic Grythyttan, deep in the majestic forest and lakescape of the old mining district of Bergslagen, blazing in autumn colors, awarded our dear book PA&Co — More than a Cookbook with the prize Best All Categories at the annual gala banquet and subsequent price ceremony för Meal Litterature of the Year the past weekend, of course with the peerless Carl Jan Granqvist in the role of Master of Ceremony. In total, prizes were awarded in no less than 29 categories amongst the more than 350 meal books published in Sweden in the past year — everything from cocktail coffee table books to doctoral thesises on the subject of nutrition. Our book alas received the finest prize, Best All Caterogies, among all of these, no less. The prize also means that we now move on to compete for the global prize of the world’s best meal literature, awarded next spring. In the best case, we may then have yet another argument for a much requested English language edition of the book.

The jury’s motivation:

”After having built its popularity on continuity for more than 20 years, PA&Co is a classic restaurant which has fine-tuned its unique cuisine of powerful flavors, gusto and elegance. This beautiful book sums up the dining room’s cultural spawning ground and the kitchen’s bold crossing of Swedish home cooking, The Mediterranean and Asia in the straightforwad, no-nonsense manner which has become the restaurant’s signature.”

PA&Co — More than Cookbook of the Year

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