Australian Diabetes-focused Cookbook on Diabetes Wins “Best in the World” at Gourmand Awards
Sydney-based dietitian Dr. Sue Radd's science-backed guide recognized at the international food awards, celebrating its impact on health and wellbeing.
Nathan Brown, Adventist RecordPortugalJul 25, 2025, 3:29 AM
Food As Medicine: Cooking to Prevent and Treat Diabetes was named “Best in the World” at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards on June 19, 2025. The cookbook authored by Sydney-based dietitian Dr. Sue Radd and published by Signs Publishing was awarded best cookbook in the “Health Professionals Books” category, beating out shortlisted books from France, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain.
According to the award citation for Food As Medicine–Diabetes, “This empowering and science-backed guide offers a practical and inspiring approach to managing one of the world’s most pressing health challenges through the healing power of food.”
It joins the original Food As Medicine cookbook, which received a similar “Best in the World” award in 2017.
“There is now much greater recognition in all contexts as to the importance of books on health and wellbeing and this is a growing area of interest,” commented Signs manager Andrew Irvine, who represented the publisher at the award ceremony. “There were many excellent books in this category, so this award is extra-special and a credit to both Radd's significant efforts and the work of the Signs team who were involved in publishing this book.”
When notified of the award, Radd expressed her praise to God for leading in this project.
“I have sensed this from the very beginning when the title idea was impressed upon me,” she reflected. “We can see now that [the search terms] ‘Food as medicine’ and ‘Food is medicine’ are trending globally but when we started [the concept] was considered somewhat fringe.”
Radd is an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian who works in private practice in Sydney and is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. Her award-winning cookbooks are available from Adventist and other bookstores in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond.
In their 30th year, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were presented as part of the Cascais World Food Summit in Portugal.
The original article was published on the South Pacific Division news site, Adventist Record.
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