Last week Vickie de Beer and Kath Megaw won the Sunday Times Food Weekly Cookbook of the Year for The Low-Carb Solution for Diabetics. Last year's winner, Daisy Jones (Star Fish), spent five minutes with the two.Just hours before the winners were announced last Thursday you received some other exciting news about your book.VB: An international publisher wants to sell the book in the US, UK and Commonwealth.KM: We're thrilled. Diabetes is on the rise and this book is full of information about the disease. It's also practical and compassionate.Vickie, you dedicated the award to Lucca, your son who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was eight.VB: The book would never have happened without him. We switched to low-carb cooking after his diagnosis. Much of the book is about our journey as a family.Vickie, you're an established food writer, stylist and editor. Kath, you are known as SA's top child nutritionist. What was it like working together?VB: We were impossible! We must have driven Libby (Doyle, at Quivertree Publications) mad. We didn't stick to any plan. Every time we had a new idea we just went with it.KM: There isn't a precedent for a book like this. We wanted to show that so much can be done just by changing cooking and eating habits at home. We wanted to make it easy and delicious, but also to explain the rationale behind the recipes. When Vickie switched Lucca over to this low carb-diet his blood glucose levels returned to normal. That's profound.So the book is aimed at parents with a diabetic child?KM: It's broader than that. One of the main reasons why diabetes is on the rise globally is because our eating habits have gone from bad to worse. Our children eat way too much sugar, salt and processed food. The change in diet that benefited Lucca would benefit any child - or adult, for that matter...