Congratulations are in order for Sauce writer Stacy Schultz, who recently received an award from Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international society of women leaders in the culinary field. Schultz won the M.F.K. Fisher Award for excellence and creativity in culinary writing for her story “Lox of Love,” published in the September 2013 issue of Sauce.
The awards, named for celebrated food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, seek to support and highlight women culinary writers. A panel of 12 judges including prominent culinary newspaper editors, magazine editors and book publishers selected the winners based on writing style, expertise in the subject matter, originality, strength of voice, and relevance to the reader. Schultz’s piece chronicled her quest to make a mark on her family’s culinary traditions.
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, an agricultural journalism instructor at University of Missouri, also received the grand prize for an excerpt from her book, Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America’s Heartland. A feature story by Furstenau will appear in an upcoming issue of Sauce. Both writers received cash prizes and trips to the LDEI awards ceremony in Boston.
-photo by Greg Rannells
This article appears in June 2014.