Zing! By Gorji Cookbook Sweeps Indie Book Awards

Zing! By Gorji Cookbook cover and inside page from the favorite building blocks of flavor section showing pomegranate and dill.

The Latest Honors: Two National Indie Excellence Awards and A Prestigious IPPY

With these three honors from the indie book awards community, Zing! By Gorji cookbook has received five top cookbook awards, four in cookbook categories and one for best book/author/publisher website.

Indie Book Awards For Zing! By Gorji:

National Indie Excellence Awards (2 ) –International & Regional Cookbook Categories, USA Book News Award – International Cookbook Category, London Book Festival – International Cookbook Category and IPPY Independent Publishing Awards –Best Book/Publisher/Author Website.

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Zing! By Gorji, is part innovative cookbook, part autobiography and part guide to great culinary shopping tips and methods for creating “New Mediterranean cuisine” including how to use ingredients such as pomegranates, barberries, limes and sumac to infuse dishes with bold flavor.

 Other Awards & Recognition

DALLAS—The Chef Gorji Cookbook by chef-owner of Canary By Gorji restaurant in Dallas,TX has swept the independent book world and received top book awards from members of the established independent publishing awards community. Zing! By Gorji – New Mediterranean Cuisine is part innovative cookbook, part autobiography and part guide to great culinary shopping tips and methods for creating “New Mediterranean cuisine” including how to use ingredients such as pomegranates, barberries, limes and sumac to infuse dishes with bold flavor.

The awards are a great honor, says Chef Gorji, who has helmed his intimate restaurant nightly for the past 12 years and worked on “Zing!,” a labor of love diligently during this demanding schedule. “There were a lot of long days and weekends devoted to this project but I couldn’t be happier that my story is receiving such widespread acceptance. With this book I have a chance to share some of my recipes—along with the unique sauces of Gorji Gourmet Foods—with people from all over the world.” The latest sauce to be added to the Gorji Gourmet lineup is Arrabiata Diavolo, introduced in late 2014 that has been heating up many of his recipes and has inspired new ones. Gorji compares his spicy Diavolo sauce to writing his cookbook: “The devil is always in the details!”

To date, Zing! By Gorji cookbook has taken home five top wards in book publishing contests, four in cookbook categories and one for best book/author/publisher website.

National Indie Excellence Awards – 2 WINNERS–International & Regional Cookbook Categories
Recognizing authors that put their heart and soul into their work, the National Indie Excellence® Awards is proud to be a champion of self-publishers and small and independent presses that go the extra mile to produce books of excellence in every aspect.”Awarded since 2007, the competition is judged by independent experts from all aspects of the indie book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters.

USA Book News Award – WINNER – International Cookbook Category 
USA Book News Award winners and finalists have traversed the publishing landscape including Simon & Schuster, Penguin, John Wiley & Sons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kensington Books, Harlequin, McGraw-Hill, Llewellyn, Yale University Press, Cornell University Press, University of Missouri Press, White House Historical Association, American Bar Association and hundreds of independent publishers. This year’s USA Book News contest had more than 2000 entries for titles.

Londdon Book Festival – WINNER–International Cookbook Category
The London Book Festival awards titles in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Published, self-published or independently published authors, they span a wide variety of genres.The panel of judges chooses winners based on an author’s story-telling skills and his/her work’s ability to gain international acclaim.

IPPY Book Awards – GOLD MEDAL–Best Book/Publisher/Author Website 
The 19th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. This year’s contest drew over 2,750 entries from authors and publishers in 45 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces, and 10 countries overseas.

Gorji has been chef-owner of Canary By Gorji, the intimate 10-table restaurant in Dallas, Texas for 14 years. He has released an award-winning debut cookbook Zing! By Gorji that features his signature “New Mediterranean” cuisine. He launched Gorji Gourmet Foods® in 2006.  The product line was developed to help home cooks easily make gourmet tasting dishes. They include Pomodoro sauce, Puttanesca sauce, Dipping Oil & Marinade and Pomegranate Vinaigrette, with the latest Arrabiata Diavolo being introduced in 2014. At ZestFest 2015,  Arrabiata Diavolo, won gold for Best Pasta Sauce with the pomodoro and puttanesca taking silver and bronze. Arrabiata also won silver in Best New Product. They are available for purchase at metroplex Whole Foods Market®, area gourmet stores, amazon.com, artizone.com, organics2u.com and www.gorjigourmet.com.For more information please visit chefgorji.com.

The Chef’s Cookbook honors, along with his expanding Gorji Gourmet Foods® line, add to Gorji’s culinary legacy.

Chef Gorji’s  first-ever cookbook, Zing! By Gorji – New Mediterranean Cuisine,  has received top book awards from members of the established independent publishing awards community. It is part innovative cookbook, part autobiography and part guide to great culinary shopping tips and methods for creating “New Mediterranean cuisine” including how to use ingredients such as pomegranates, barberries, limes and sumac to infuse dishes with bold flavor.