Winner of the 2023 Prize Announced

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We are delighted to announce that the Sophie Coe Prize 2023 was awarded to Frank Veraart for his book chapter ‘Catalysing Socio-Ecological Change: The Extraction and Processing of Edible Oils, 1910–1940’. The Judges commented that his work is “powerful, intelligently and coherently argued, and disturbing. The author shows very clearly the capitalist world is changing the ecology as well as the social conditions of the rest of the planet.” Many congratulations to our worthy winner.

2023 was an excellent year with many strong entries for our Judges to consider, and they particularly commended three additional papers:

‘The Origins of the Jewish Pig Prohibition: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabee’ by Julia Rhyder; ‘Building Pasta’s Empire: Barilla in Italian East Africa’ by Diana Garvin; and ‘The Limits of Disgust: Eating the Inedible During Jamestown’s “Starving Time”’ by Rachel Winchcombe. 

The Prize was announced at the Oxford Food Symposium on 8th July. Sadly, none of the winning authors were there to hear the applause in person, but we pass on all of our congratulations to them all.

You can read the full Judges’ Report here; and where possible we provide links to all winning papers on our Winners page.