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  • Delia at home 2022

    ‘I wanted to teach people how not to be afraid of cooking’
    OFM Awards 2022 winner Delia Smith

    The inaugural winner of the OFM Icon Award on the secret to her long and brilliant career
  • Best Producer
    Pump Street, Orford

  • Best Social Media
    Pipers Farm, Devon

  • Best Cookbook
    Nistisima by Georgina Hayden

  • Editor’s Award
    #CookForUkraine

  • Outstanding Achievement
    London’s Community Kitchen

  • ‘I tweeted and life went nuts’
    OFM Awards 2022 Food Hero – Jack Monroe

  • Best restaurant
    Roots, York

  • Best Sunday Lunch
    The Queen o’ t’ owd Thatch, South Milford

  • jamie

    Best food personality 2019
    Jamie Oliver

    ‘I’m a bit battered and bruised, but I’m optimistic,’ says the campaigning chef who has been voted by OFM readers as their personality of the year
  • Oystermen founders Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell OFM awards 2019 Best Restaurant

    Best restaurant
    The Oystermen, London

  • Best ethical food project
    The Clean Kilo

  • Best independent retailer
    Field & Flower

  • Best Instagram feed
    Miguel Barclay

  • Best new cookbook
    Khazana by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed

  • Best Sunday lunch
    The Bank Tavern, Bristol

  • Editor’s award
    Andrew Fairlie

  • Local food hero
    Black Swan chef Tommy Banks

  • Lifetime achievement
    Claudia Roden

Pictures & video

  • Lifetime achievement
    Claudia Roden: our greatest food writer

    More than just collections of recipes, Claudia Roden's cookbooks are works of cultural history and have a lasting influence on how we cook and eat today
  • Restaurant kitchens remain male-dominated. When Guirong Wei was training to become a chef she was one of only four women in her cookery school in X'ian in Shaanxi province, China. She became the only female head chef in X'ian and has since brought the food of her hometown to London, to great acclaim. Now her restaurant, Master Wei, has won Best Newcomer at the OFM Awards 2019

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    Best newcomer
    Meet one of the few female head chefs in a Chinese restaurant in Britain

  • Refugee Community Kitchen has been feeding  refugees in northern France since 2015, largely with the help of volunteers. More than two million meals later, and three years after the Calais camp known as the 'Jungle' was cleared, it continues to meet a pressing need, sometimes cooking 1,000 meals a day. Refugee Community Kitchen has won Outstanding Achievement at the OFM Awards 2019

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    Outstanding achievement
    Refugee Community Kitchen: feeding refugees in Calais

  • Jess Vaughan and her father Mike run Jess' Ladies Organic Farm Milk, based at Hardwicke Farm in Gloucestershire. Their 'ladies' are their dairy cows, a well-cared for, 75-strong herd whose welfare is the key to the farm's acclaimed milk, cream and kefir. Says Jess: "They have to be relaxed, to be happy cows, to produce high quality milk." Jess' Ladies Organic Farm Milk won Best Producer at the OFM Awards 2019

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    Best producer
    The high-welfare dairy farm that produces Britain's best milk

  • OFM Awards host Nigella Lawson, chef Yotam Ottolenghi and Lifetime Achievement winner Claudia Roden at The Observer Food Awards 2019, held at the Freemasons Hall, London on 17 October.

    Community cooks to celebrity chefs
    The winners - in pictures

  • The biggest event in the food calendar, the Observer Food Monthly Awards celebrate Britain’s leading chefs, restaurateurs, food producers and much more. This year’s awards took place on 17 October at the Freemasons Hall in London. Jamie Oliver collected the award for Best Food Personality, Claudia Roden took home Lifetime Achievement and Refugee Community Kitchen won Outstanding Achievement.

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    Video
    All the highlights from the biggest event in the food calendar