Cazador: game, offal & the rest, co-authored by Rebecca Smidt, won Best Book. Photo / Fiona Goodall
New Zealand's best-looking book of the last year is a cookbook produced by a game restaurant.
Cazador: game, offal & the rest, written by restaurateurs Dariush Lolaiy and Rebecca Smidt and designed by Tim Donaldson and Amanda Gaskin of Sea Change Studio, took the top prize at a competition where
books really are judged by their covers.
The annual PANZ Book Design Awards promote excellence in New Zealand book design and recognise the designers and artists who make our books look good enough to eat.
Judges declared the design of the book, from family-owned restaurant Cazador, lifted it above simply a cookbook, saying it broke its genre to become something of its own, artful and unique.
"The outward beauty is sensitively matched by a depth of thought that reveals the soul of Cazador [the restaurant] and its story. An outstanding package."
