Recipe books with Otago connections scooped the awards at the annual Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
Held in Yantai, China, last week, the awards recognise excellence in cookbook publishing worldwide and are often referred to as the ''Oscars'' of the cookbook world.
Of New Zealand cookbooks Amisfield: Food, Wine and Stories from Central Otago received the best photography award.
Celebrity chef Josh Emmett, who runs two restaurants in Queenstown, won the award for best barbecue book with Josh's Backyard BBQ.
Annabel Langbein's The Free Range Cook: Through the seasons, which features photography from her Wanaka holiday home and garden, won the best television show-connected book.
A Cut Above: cooking with Angus Pure, by Gerhard and Henri Egger which featured Neil and Rose Sanderson, of Oamaru, among its stories of New Zealand Angus breeders, won the meat cookbook award.
The easy recipe title went to the Great New Zealand Cookbook and the book was placed third overall for best cookbook in the world.
Among recipes from 80 chefs around New Zealand were creations from Otago chefs Jay Sherwood (Amisfield), Mr Emmett and Bevan Smith (Riverstone Cafe).
