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The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History
Previous Winners

1995 (The first year the Prize was awarded)
Joint Prize Winners:
Ove Fosså – A Whale of a Dish: whalemeat as food. £500
Regina Sexton – I'd Ate it like Chocolate: the disappearing offal food traditions of Cork City. £500

1996
Andrew Dalby – Alexander's Culinary Legacy. £1000
Barbara Santich – The Rise and Demise of the Kangaroo Steamer. £250
Sharon Hudgins – Raw Liver and More: feasting with the Buriats of Southern Siberia. Books to the value of £125

1997
Peter Brears – Transparent Pleasures: the story of the jelly. £1000
Ivan Day – Further Musings on the Syllabub. £250
Delwyn Samuel – Approaches to the Archaeology of Food. Books to the value of £150
Darra Goldstein – Is Hay only for Horses? Books to the value of £150

1998
Rachel Laudan – A Kind of Chemistry. £1000
Paula Marcoux – The Thickening Plot. £300
Chitrita Banerji – Sweet Offerings. £200
Eve Jochnowitz – Feasting on the Future. £100
Andrew Smith – From Garum to Ketchup. £100
The late Roy Shipperbottom – Elizabeth Raffald. Honourable Mention.

1999
Gillian Riley – Gastronomy in the Still-life Paintings of Meléndez. £1000
Daniel Block – Purity, Economy, and Social Welfare in the Progressive Era Pure Milk Movement. £250
Gilly Lehmann – Politics in the Kitchen. £250
Chitrita Banerji – The Kindest Cut: How the Bengali discovered Chhana and its Delightful Offspring. £150
Jules Rabin – Soup for Bread: Altering and Shrinking the Sparse Repasts of
the Poor. £150
Claudia Alarcon – Tamales in Mesoamerica: Food for Gods and Mortals. Books to the value of £100
Alyson M. Ryley – The Prime of Miss Frank Buttolph: Notes toward a Menu History of New York City. Books to the Value of £100
Regina Sexton – Porridges, Gruels and Breads: The Cereal Foodstuffs of Early Medieval Ireland. Books to the value of £100
Professor Constance Hieatt and Brenda Hosington – From Espinnee to Sambocade:
Flowers in Recipes of Medieval England. Special Commendation, with a book.

2000
Warren Belasco – Future Notes: The Meal In a Pill. £1000
Richard R. Wilk – The Origins of “Belizean Food”. £300
Laura Mason – William Jarrin: The Italian Confectioner 1784-1848. £200
Zona Spray – Memories of a Vanishing Eskimo Cuisine. £200
Gaitri Pagrach Chandra – Damra Bound: Indian Echos in Guyanese Foodways. £100
Andrew Dalby – Dining with the Caesars. Books to the value of £75
Malcolm Thick – William Ellis, the Country Housewife’s Family Companion, 1750. Books to the value of £75

2001
William & Yvonne Lockwood – Continuity and Adaptation in Arab American Foodways. £1000
June di Schino – The Pope, the Queen, and the Mystery Banquets. £450

2002
Barry A. Groves – William Banting: the father of the low-carbohydrate diet. £1000
Helen Day – Waste Not, Want Not: the excesses of gluttony in the early to mid- Victorian period. £300
Valerie Mars and Gerald Mars – Fat in the Victorian kitchen: a medium for cooking, control, deviance and crime. £300

2003
Dr. Susan Weingarten – The great Tracta debate: evidence from the Talmud. £1000
Jeremy MacClancy – Feeding Nationalism: a Basque example. £400
Lynn Martin – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Europe, 1399-1700: a Review of data on
Alcohol Consumption and a Hypothesis £300

2004
Ursula Heinzelmann – Spreewaldgurken: Pickled Cucumbers from the Spreewald. £1250
Jane Levi – A Surreptious Snack: The evolution of Elevenses £500

2005
Anthony F. Buccini – Western Mediterranean Vegetable Stews and the Integration of Culinary Exotica. £1500
Bronwen E. Bromberger – Twenty-first Century Artisans: three British farmstead cheese-makers on the concept of “Tradition”. £200
Christine Knight – Nostalgia and authenticity in low-carbohydrate dieting. £200
Alison Locker – Omega 3: Rent , Lent and Charity. £200
Jules Rabin – Crammed with Distressful Bread. £200

2006
Ursula Heinzelmann – Teltow Turnips: Humble roots with a long history: a unique example of the link between place of origin and authenticity of flavour. £1500.
Allison Clark – Russian Roulette or a Way of Life: the ‘60-day Rule’ for Raw Milk Cheese. £300
Fuchsia Dunlop – The Strange Tale of General Tso’s Chicken. £200
Carolin Young – Salvador Dali’s Giant Egg. £150
Kristin A. Morrissey – How the Cactus Lost its Fruit: Representations of Saguaro Fruit as Cultural Constructions (1540-1920). £100
Zona Spray Sparks – Creating with Arctic Eggs. £50

2007
Anne Mendelson – The Lenapes: In Search of Pre-European Foodways in the Greater New YorkRegion. £1500
William Rubel – Eggs in Moon Shine with Cream: A Selection of Egg Recipes 1500-1800. £150
Maren Möhring – Transnational food migration and the internationalisation of food consumption. Ethnic Cuisine in West Germany. £150
Alicia Ríos – Cooking and Eating London: An Ali&Cia urbanography ceremony commissioned by Lift. £150

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