Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality left its mark on Gourmand Awards 2023. The Metropolitan Municipality won 1st place with the book "Balıkesir, City of Bread" and 2nd place with the book "Balıkesir, Land of the Olive", and won the title of "Best of Best" by being selected as the best of the last 25 years with the book "Balıkesir, City of 50 Cheeses".

Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality left its mark on Gourmand Awards 2023, the world's only international cookbook competition, with its book studies carried out to promote the city's food and beverage culture and announce its potential to the world. In 2019, the book "Balıkesir, City of 50 Cheeses", which was selected as the best in the world in the category of "cheese and milk" in the same competition and earned the right to be published with the label "Best in the World", was selected as the best of the last 25 years in the 29th edition of the competition this year and was named "Best of Best".

4 AWARDS TO BALIKESİR FROM GOURMAND AWARDS

The Metropolitan Municipality won 1st place in the "Bread Book" category with the book "Balıkesir, City of Bread" and 2nd place in the "Mediterranean Books" category with the book "Balıkesir, the Land the Olive", and with the selection of the book "Balıkesir, City of 50 Cheeses" as "Best in the World", the Metropolitan Municipality won 3 awards this year and 4 awards in total, and announced the ancient history and richness of Turkish Cuisine to the world in the competition attended by 205 countries.