Cooking by Number: Asian Up, Italian Down

By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 12/29/2008 7:55:00 AM

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards received thousands of cookbooks from 102 countries in 2008. Along with a deluge of recipes, mouth-watering photos, and interesting facts about succotash, the organization also gets a bird’s eye view of the global cookbook landscape. Here is their perceived world ranking of cuisines, based on cookbooks published last year.

1. Asian

2. Mediterranean

3. Italian

4. Chinese

5. French

6. Latino 

Cuisines that are on the rise, according to number of cookbooks published:

1. Asian

2. Mediterranean

3. Chinese

Cuisines that are on the decline, according to number of cookbooks published:

1. Middle Eastern

2. French

3. Italian