MINNETONKA, MN – Cooking Club magazine, a specialty publication dedicated to cooking enthusiasts, found the recipe for success by winning a Gold and two Silver Awards at the Excellence Awards Gala sponsored by the Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association in Minneapolis on November 3, 2011. Cooking Club’s awards spanned both print and digital categories, demonstrating the publication’s highly effective strategy to reach its readership in both traditional and electronic formats.  

Betsy Wray, editor of Cooking Club, accepted awards in three separate categories on behalf of the magazine.  The Gold Award was given in the “Regular Column Special Interest” category.  The Silver Awards were given in the “Cover Design/Special Interest for Publications Over 60,000 in Readership” and “E-Newsletter General Interest/Special Interest” categories.  Winning a single award at the Excellence Awards Gala is a high honor; winning three awards places Cooking Club in a prestigious position among magazine titles.


Cooking Club won its Gold Award for a regular feature called “Cook’s Notebook,” a column where cooks receive little-known tips to enhance their culinary skills.  In a recent issue, Cooking Club demonstrated how to add decorative patterns to the edge of a piecrust.  Detailed photos showed how to transform a piecrust edge with a choice of four different patterns: fringed, leaves, scalloped or decorative circles.  “Cook’s Notebook” is written to provide unique and specialized techniques used by masters of the culinary arts.

Cooking Club won Silver Awards for its e-newsletter called “foodnow” and the cover of its February/March issue of the print magazine.   “foodnow comes as a daily e-mail with tasty recipes, reviews of innovative new kitchen tools, and the latest discoveries in the culinary world.  The cover of the February/March issue of Cooking Club featured a taste-tempting photo of a warm loaf of artisan bread on a wood cutting board.
 
Cooking Club is a nationally distributed lifestyle magazine for members of the Cooking Club of America, a membership association for people with a passion for food, cooking and entertaining.  The magazine comes as a benefit of membership, along with a number of other exclusive privileges such as a member-focused website dedicated to cooking, a daily e-newsletter and the opportunity to test cooking products from leading vendors in the marketplace.   For more information about the Cooking Club of America and Cooking Club magazine, visit www.CookingClub.com.

Minnesota has a thriving publishing and printing industry.  The Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association Excellent Awards Competition was established 15 years ago to recognize and foster outstanding publishing achievement.  Winning an award is a very competitive and prestigious achievement.