Awards

Julia Child Independent Scholar grant in 2011: spent a month in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, researching at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer

Scholar’s Grant from the Culinary Historians of New York, 2011

Reading Historic Cookbooks seminar by invitation with Barbara Ketchum Wheaton, Schlesinger Library, Harvard, May 2011

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, “A Hastiness of Cooks,” Best in the USA and the World in the Culinary History category, 2020

Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Meatballs & Lefse, Finalist, Lifestyle/Cooking/How-To/Home, 2021

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Stoves & Suitcases, Best in the USA and the World in the Food Writing Category, 2022

President’s Book Awards Finalist/Silver Medalist, Meatballs & Lefse, Florida Authors and Publishers Association, 2022

President’s Book Awards Finalist/Silver Medalist, Stoves & Suitcases, Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2022

President’s Book Awards Finalist/Silver Medalist, Take a Goose or a Duck, Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2023

President’s Book Awards Finalist/Bronze Medalist, Mangoes & Roosters, Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2023

Semi-Finalist, Royal Palm Literary Awards, Florida Writers Association, Mangoes & Roosters, 2023

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Take a Goose or a Duck: Eclectic Essays on English Cookery Through the Ages, Best in the USA and the World in Cookbook History and Writing, 2023

President’s Book Awards Finalist/ Bronze Medalist, Dispatches from a Kitchen Table, Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2024.