Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality made its country proud by winning the first prize with its book "Balıkesir, City of Bread" at the "Gourmand Awards", the world's only international cookbook competition held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia this year. The book won the right to be published with the "Best in the World" label.
Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality, which focuses on book studies with the vision of Mayor Yücel Yılmaz in order to record the product diversity and deep-rooted history of Balıkesir, which has a different culture and tradition in each region, and to transfer this valuable heritage to future generations, has appeared on the world stage at the Gourmand Awards, the only international competition for food culture, with the books " Balıkesir, Land of the Olive" and "Balıkesir, City of Bread". The international event, which takes place in a different country of the world every year, will be held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on 27-29 November this year.
IT WILL BE PUBLISHED WITH THE LABEL "BEST IN THE WORLD”
On the first day of the competition, Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality made its country proud by announcing the wealth and ancient history of Turkish cuisine to the world with the book " Balıkesir, City of Bread", which won the first place in the Bread Books Category. Thus, the book " Balıkesir, City of Bread" was entitled to be published with the "Best in the World" label. Following the book " Balıkesir, City of 50 Cheeses", Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality has achieved this success for the second time and the results of another book " Balıkesir, Land of the Olive" will be announced tonight.
AUTHORS THANKED MAYOR YILMAZ
The authors of the books; Berrin Bal Onur and Neşe Aksoy Biber said that they are excited to bring this pride to our country and thanked Yücel Yılmaz, Mayor of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality, and his team for providing them with this opportunity and for their efforts and contributions at every stage of the books. The authors said that the Metropolitan Municipality embraced this work very well and supported them in every aspect, and expressed their happiness of being rewarded for their efforts.
