The Grand Prize in the Cooking Recipe Book Awards 2025 [Cooking Category] goes to “Steaming Everything: Steamer Recipes.” The 10 winning works will be featured in a fair at bookstores nationwide starting September 10th! Image
URL: General Incorporated Association Cooking Recipe Book Awards Executive Committee Press release: September 10, 2025 To Members of the Press The Grand Prize in the Cooking Recipe Book Awards 2025 [Cooking Category] goes to “Steam Everything: Bamboo Steamer Recipes.” A fair featuring the 10 winning works will begin at bookstores nationwide on September 10th! This year, the Grand Prize, Runner-up Prize, and other award winners were selected after a fierce competition from a total of 141 entries from 41 publishers. The awards ceremony was held at the Tokyo Dome Hotel at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, September 9th.
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congratulatory remarks to each winner. Greetings and comments from Tsutomu Kato (Bookstama), Executive Committee Chairman of the “Cooking Recipe Book Awards”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-054437fe54fd66e881e267f9f03a5ea7-3504×2336.jpg “Thanks to everyone’s support, the Cooking Recipe Book Awards are now in their 12th year. This year, 41 companies submitted 141 entries. The selection committee, consisting of 253 booksellers from across the country and cooking experts, After a rigorous selection process by 10 special judges, this year’s Recipe Book Grand Prize winners have been decided. This year, many books featuring innovative and unique recipes were submitted. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the recipe book authors, publishers, and sponsoring companies, and wish you all good health and continued success. “This year, there were many recipe books that encourage people to stop and take a good look at their own lives, such as bamboo steaming and medicinal cooking. In previous years, keywords like “time-saving” and “easy” were common, but this year’s winners were books with a different approach, so we hope they will liven up bookstore shelves.” 【Cooking Department】
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-a315381edd40f6cde90c232d20521728-2103×1402.jpg Grand Prize in the Cooking Category: “Steam Everything: Steamer Recipes” Author: Riyoko (Gakken)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-f3d60f65880903efdbb21792716ad3eb-2103×1402.jpg Runner-up in the Cooking Category: “Ryuuji’s Ultimate Recipes 3: The Most Delicious Meal of My Life!” “100 Basic Recipes” by Ryuji (Rights Publishing)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-fd711b143cd50f070af6e01c12cce1b4-1402×935.jpg Winner in the Cooking Category: “Taste the Steam” by Kudo Rain (Orange Page)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-b298dc2c942312197d82ab76142e9d8d-2103×1402.jpg Winner in the Cooking Category: “7 AM Breakfast Laboratory” Author: Makiko Oda / Illustrations and Manga: Skellakko (Poplar Publishing)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-583b4dd9a74378931528a639b53ebe49-2103×1402.jpg Winner in the Cooking Category: “365 Days of Medicinal Cuisine to Enhance Your Mind and Body” by Ayuko Kawate (Jiyuukokuminsha) 【Sweets Section】
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-6e7fd8078c577124a2b8cfafb62522b9-1402×2103.jpg Grand Prize in the Sweets Category: “I don’t know of a more delicious recipe that’s so easy to make.” ” Author: misa (KADOKAWA) 【Genre Award】
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-cef2b5041b3b7925a3aa8e57ac876b40-2103×1402.jpg Children’s Book Award: “The Bread Thief’s World’s Easiest Bread Recipes to Make with Kids” Cooking: Yoshinaga Machiko / Original Story: Shibata Keiko (KADOKAWA)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-5f7cbdd092d0bf910bfdf8718b003cc2-2103×1402.jpg Comic Award: “I Want to Live in the Kitchen” by Yuka Sato (Overlap) Honey Comic Essay) 【Professional Choice Recipe Award】
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-34c347ca4d490f63d5fe1895325c716b-2103×1402.jpg ‘Homemade is entertainment. ” Author: Mutsuko Hamatake (Sanctuary Publishing) 【New Recipe Award】
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-71d579739c2ae67a486abfa7d5df2762-2103×1402.jpg “Inoue Sakura’s Omamori Gohan” Author: Sakura Inoue (Shufunotomosha) Ambassador Hiroyuki Amano commented: “This year, there were so many recipe books with interesting titles, I couldn’t help but wonder what the recipes inside were like.”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48008/19/48008-19-3fbef874a977dddee53f2b3cc46413b8-2103×1402.jpg Next, the delicious dish that was sampled was: Grand Prize in the Cooking Category: “Steam Everything: Steamed Chicken” from “Steamer Recipes” “Basque Cheesecake” from the Grand Prize in the Sweets Category, “I don’t know of any recipes that are easy to make and more delicious.” “Gorgon Nikujaga” from the Newsworthy Recipe Award, “Inoue Sakura’s Omamori Gohan” These were the three dishes. Amano’s recipes were so highly praised that the recreated menu items served to guests at the venue quickly sold out. We would like to thank all those involved in the selection process and the number of entries submitted. ◆Bookstore selection committee Number of entries: 253 people Primary voting participation: 226 people 205 people participated in the final selection ◆Special selection committee 10 people ◆Number of publisher entries: 41 ◆Number of book entries: 141 *Grand Prize in the Cooking Category: 109 entries *Grand Prize in the Sweets Category: 18 entries *Children’s Book Award: 8 entries *Comic Award: 6 works ◆Passed the first round of selection ■Grand Prize in the Cooking Category: 30 entries ■Grand Prize in the Sweets Category: 6 entries *Due to the tie, there were entries with the same number of entries ■Children’s Book Award: 5 entries ■ Comics Award: 5 works For details on the selection process, please click here.
▶https://recipe-bon.jp/?page_id=22 [The fair will begin at bookstores nationwide on September 10th] Winners of the 11th Cooking Recipe Book Awards in Japan 2025 ■Cooking section Grand Prize “Steaming Recipes for Everything” Author: Riyoko (Gakken) Runner-up “Ryuuji’s Ultimate Recipe 3: The Most Delicious Meal of My Life! 100 Basic Recipes” Author: Ryuji (Rights Publishing) Winner “Eating Steam” Author: Kudo Rain (Orange Page) Winner “7 AM Breakfast Laboratory” Author: Makiko Oda / Illustrations and Manga: Skellakko (Poplar Publishing) Winner “365 Days of Medicinal Food for a Better Mind and Body” Author: Ayuko Kawate (Jiyuukokuminsha) ■Sweets department Grand Prize ‘I don’t know of a more delicious recipe that’s easy to make. ” Author: misa (KADOKAWA) ■Genre Award Children’s Book Award “The Bread Thief’s World’s Easiest Bread Recipes to Make with Kids” Cooking: Yoshinaga Maiko / Original Story: Shibata Keiko (KADOKAWA) Comic Award “I Want to Live in the Kitchen” Author: Sato Yuka (Overlap Honey Comic Essay) ■Professional Choice Recipe Award Professional Choice Recipe Award ‘Homemade is entertainment. ” Author: Mutsuko Hamatake (Sanctuary Publishing) ■New Recipe Award Newsy Recipe Award “Inoue Sakura’s Omamori Gohan” Author: Inoue Sakura (Shufunotomosha) Congratulations to everyone involved in the awards. Ryuuji is the first person in history to win the award five times in a row! Collaboration project with note “#ILoveThisRecipewithCookingRecipeBookAward” Project introduction https://note.com/note_food/n/n7a0f05ed4cda In order to let as many people as possible know that there are many wonderful recipe books out there, we asked participants to post articles on note using the hashtag “I Love This Recipe,” including their favorite recipes from their favorite cookbooks or recipes they have made and enjoyed, for books that passed the first round of selection for the Cooking Recipe Book Awards. [12th List of Sponsoring Companies (Titles omitted/In no particular order) ◎Sponsor ■House Foods Corporation https://housefoods.jp/ ■Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
https://www.ajinomoto.co.jp/ ■Nihon Tosho Fukyu Co., Ltd.
https://www.toshocard.com/corporate/ ■NetGalley (Media Do Co., Ltd.) ◎Special cooperation ■note https://note.com/ ◎Official Media Partner ■The Asahi Shimbun Company Media Business Division
https://www.asahi.com/ 【Organizer】 General Incorporated Association Cooking Recipe Book Award Executive Committee Secretariat Official homepage Official