Last night, winners were announced at the 47th annual International Association of Culinary Professional (IACP) awards at the Venue at City Harvest in Brooklyn, New York. The IACP awards recognize excellence in four overarching categories: cookbooks, digital media, food writing, and food photography and styling in the culinary industry.
Former Eater correspondent Jaya Saxena took home an award in the Personal Essays/Memoir Writing category for an essay in which she recreated a cocktail party from Martha Stewart’s first book, Entertaining. (Stewart, herself, was in attendance at the ceremony last night.) Eater Chicago contributor Nylah Iqbal Muhammad won in Narrative Food Writing Without Recipes for her piece on Arab Americans finding solace in a leafy green stew.
The Vox Media Podcast Network show and Eater partner, Gastropod, also took home an award in the Podcast category.
This season, the food writing awards were chaired by Jenny Dorsey, a chef, author, and speaker focused on food as a source of identity formation. The broadcast awards program was led by Lauren Savoie, deputy executive editor at Business Insider.
In all, Eater was nominated for four categories at the awards, with additional recognition for the video team’s series Mise en Place and Saxena’s feature story “The Food That Makes You Gay.” Find the full list of 2025 winners on the IACP website.
