Awards and Honours
Awards
Creative Freedom Award: 2000 (Chocolat)
Whitaker Gold Award: 2000
Salon du Livre Gourmand: 2000
Author of the Year: 2002
WH Smith Award: 2002
Premio Grinzane Cavour: 2003
Golden Ladle Award (for The French Kitchen): 2005
Glenfiddich Award: 2006
Whitaker Platinum Award: 2012
Jasmine Award (for perfume journalism): 2017
Pink News Ally of the Year: 2022
Honours
Hon. doctorate: Huddersfield University (D. Litt)
Hon. doctorate: Sheffield University (D. Litt)
MBE: 2013
Hon. fellowship of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge: 2017
OBE: 2022
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature: 2022