Who won at the Good Housekeeping Food Awards?

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Now in their fifth year, the Good Housekeeping Food Awards honour the very best of food and drink - chosen by you and our renowned panel of celebrity judges. Click through to discover the foods that are so good, they can truly have the most impact on your cooking; and to find out who is the top food icon of all-time... Clue: it\'s a woman!

The judges, clockwise from top left: Celeb chef Valentine Warner; GH Editorial Director, Lindsay Nicholson; the fabulous Jane Asher; GH Food Consultant Prue Leith; chef Alan Murchison; wine writer Richard Ehrlich; GH Cookery Editor, Emma Marsden; and GH Associate Editor Karen Barnes.

The ingredient you couldn\'t live without

Winner: Filippo Berio Olive Oil

Olive oil is the ultimate must-have ingredient - and this family-owned firm has been producing our favourite health-boosting nectar since 1867.Try making our Olive Oil Sponge with Prunes

Runner-up: Marigold Swiss Vegetable Bouillon Powder

Best organic product range available in a supermarket

Winner: Yeo Valley Yogurts

Yeo Valley began selling yogurts from the farm gate in Somerset in 1974 and has been adding more fantastic products to the range ever since.

Try this fabulous natural yogurt on the side with curries or for making our lamb and yogurt wrap.

Runner-up: Green & Black\'s Chocolate

Favourite tea-time treat

Winner: Bonne Maman Conserves

Staying in is the new going out in recession-hit Britain - and being at home is the perfect excuse for reviving a great British tradition: afternoon tea!  With perfect jam, delicious buttermilk scones or even plain toast.

Runner-up: Duchy Originals Shortbread

Your ultimate time-saving ingredient

Winner: Dolmio Sauces


Runner-up: Loyd Grossman Sauces


Your top choices make it simple to magic up weeknight suppers in minutes. You trust them and you use them - a lot!

Top wine under £10

Winner: Jacob\'s Creek

Good Housekeeping\'s wine expert Richard Ehrlich has this to say about our winner: ‘It\'s Australia\'s largest producer, but it\'s not a faceless conglomerate. At every level, from everyday quaffers to fine wine, Jacob\'s Creek is committed to respect for the grape and the pursuit of quality, which is why the wines are so popular with consumers.\'

Runner-up: E&J Gallo

Try using these perfect wines to make our mussels with white wine 

Expert Panel Choice: Best new food product

Hundreds of new goodies are sent by food producers to the Good Housekeeping cookery team every year to try, cook with and taste. Here are the best of 09...

Winner: Riso Gallo 3 Grains. This easy-to-cook product from Italian company Riso Gallo contains Italian rice, spelt and barley - truly different. (£1.89 for 400g, available from Tesco).

Runner-up: Castello Black Cheese. Made from a blend of sheep\'s and cow\'s milk, plus a special culture that gives the cheese black veining (£1.69 for 150g, available from Tesco).

The Good Housekeeping Cookery Team\'s favourite

Used, much-loved and highly recommended in this year\'s awards by the chefs at the Good Housekeeping Insitute...

Sacla\' Stir-Through Sauces
These storecupboard standby sauces are packed with authentic Italian ingredients. Perfect!

Best online meat

Best online butcher winner: JW Mettrick & Son Ltd

The range on offer is strong - sausages are made on the premises with locally sourced meat, and the British bangers are top notch.

Best steak from an online butcher winner: Donald Russell
Based in , Scotland, Royal Warrant holder Donald Russell specialises in grass-fed, traditionally matured beef.

Top cooking icon of all time

Winner: Delia Smith

An overwhelming number of you voted for the Queen of Cookery, who\'s such an icon she even has her own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. This year, Delia celebrates 40 years as our favourite no-nonsense cookery guru.

Runner-up: Jamie Oliver

The Good Housekeeping award for an outstanding contribution to food

Winner: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

A talented broadcaster and impassioned campaigner, Hugh has captured the public imagination with his commitment to ethically produced food. Last year he campaigned for a minimum standard for supermarket chicken, and his latest programme, Chickens, Hugh And Tesco Too, featured him trying to persuade the supermarket giant to change
its policy on intensively reared chicken. Who knows what\'s next for Hugh, whatever it is, it\'s sure to be close to his heart.

Retro award - bring it back!

Good Housekeeping asked which retro food you\'d most like to see taking the limelight again, and the clear winner was... Prawn Cocktail.

One in four of you chose it as your favourite retro food. This much-maligned favourite starter of the Sixties and Seventies is sneaking its way back on to restaurant menus. Make a contemporary version with this Good Housekeeping recipe for Prawn and Guacomole Cocktail.

Runner-up: Crêpes Suzette

Favourite TV cookery programme of the year

Winner: JAMIE AT HOME. Jamie\'s relaxed, down-to-earth style of presentation has clearly captured your hearts, and you love the mouth-watering recipes inspired by his garden.

Runner-up: SATURDAY KITCHEN

The Expert Panel\'s Best wines

Best wine made by a woman winemaker: The Frenchhouse
Grenache-Mourvedre 2007 by Catherine Delaunay, £4.49 for 750ml, Co-op. Our panel loved this uncomplicated red, priced for everyday drinking.

Runner-up: Marks & Spencer Saint Mont 2007 by Christine Cabri, £6.49 for 750ml.

Best own-label wine: TESCO FINEST FIANO 2007, £5.99 for 750ml. Praised by nearly every UK wine writer, it\'s a crisp, complex wonderful white.

Runner-up: Waitrose Douro Reserva 2006, £9.99 for 750ml.

Good Housekeeping\'s Food Hero 2009

Winner: Adam Starkey from Green Gourmet
The champion of this star award is an unlikely food hero: his food is frozen, it\'s cheap and his customers are children. With dogged persistence he has managed to get local authorities, caterers and kids to recognise that food should be sustainable, locally produced and nutritious. (www.greengourmet.co.uk).

Runner-up: CAMRA (The Campaign For Real Ale). Founded in 1971 by four young men - Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Bill Mellor and Jim Makin - CAMRA has done fantastic work over the years and, with traditional pubs disappearing rapidly, there\'s no question it has saved real ales from extinction.

Your favourite restaurants

Favourite high-street restaurant: Pizza Express

Runner-up: Loch Fyne Restaurants

Favourite independent restaurant: Le Manoir aux Quat\' Saisons, Great Milton, Oxford. You overwhelmingly agreed that Raymond Blanc\'s perfect food and service deserved our top award (www.manoir.com).

Runner-up: The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall. Rick Stein\'s fine-dining restaurant by the sea is still a favourite (www.rickstein.com).

And in 3rd place...The Fat Duck, Bray, Berks. King of experimental cooking Heston Blumenthal tickles your tastebuds (www.fatduck.co.uk). 

Your favourite food shops

Favourite supermarket: Waitrose
The champion of this category is cherished by shoppers who care about where their food comes from and look for quality and interesting ingredients.

Runner-up:  Tesco

Best family-friendly supermarket: Sainsbury\'s

The top choice in this category knows how to tap into the psyche of the nation - you loved the Feed Your Family For A Fiver campaign.

Runner-up: Morrisons

Favourite online supplier: Tesco

You found it easy to navigate, with plenty of money-saving offers and loyalty card vouchers too.

Runner-up: Sainsbury\'s

Best food campaign of the year

Winner: Pigs are worth it

British pig farmers are in crisis. Rocketing feed prices and high welfare costs - UK pigs are raised to much higher standards than in the rest of Europe - mean farmers lose up to £26 on every pig produced. The
Pigs Are Worth It campaign, set up by BPEX (British Pig Executive), is working to ensure any retail price increase is passed back to producers. It has released a pop single by pig farmers called Stand By Your Ham, talked to consumers on the Pig Issue Tour (farmers and pigs visited 10 towns) and set up celebrity chef endorsements.You loved it!

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Our thanks to...

Browns Bar & Brasserie for providing the venue for this year\'s Good Housekeeping Food Awards ceremony. In the heart of London\'s Covent Garden, the restaurant has a wide menu, from seasonal classics to an ever-changing list of specials (020 7497 5050; www.browns-restaurants.com).

Our other sponsors: Maison Blanc is an authentic boulangerie, pâtisserie and chocolaterie set up in 1981 by Raymond Blanc, master chef, TV celebrity and owner of Le Manoir aux Quat\' Saisons (www.maisonblanc.co.uk). Moet & Chandon (www.moet.com). Bombay Sapphire gin (www.bombaysapphire.com). Martini (www.martini.com). Marques de Riscal (www.marquesderiscal.com).