A big congratulations to the 2010 James Beard Foundation Restaurant & Chef award winners (full list, after the jump):
Best Chef, Great Lakes: Koren Grieveson, Avec, Chiacgo
Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic: Jeff Michaud, Osteria, Philadelphia
Best Chef, Midwest: Alexander Roberts, Restaurant Alma, Minneapolis
Best Chef, NYC: Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park
Best Chef, Northeast: Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, Arrows, Ogunquit ME
Best Chef, Northwest: Jason Wilson, Crush, Seattle
Best Chef, Pacific: David Kinch, Manresa, Los Gatos CA
Best Chef, South: Michael Schwartz, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink
Best Chef, Southeast: Sean Brock, McCrady's, Charleston SC
Best Chef, Southwest: Claude Le Tohic, Joël Robuchon at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
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Last night, the James Beard Foundation presented its awards in the Media and Books categories (tomorrow night is the Restaurant and Chef component). Here are the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media Award winners, in order of announcement. Congrats to all the winners and nominees!
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Serious Eats is in the running for the James Beard Foundation's 2010 Readers' Choice Awards. We're in the "Best Food Blog" category along with some very stiff competition:
Grub Street New York and
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. Give 'em a look see, and
cast your ballot as you see fit!
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This year I watched the entire James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony from the ridiculously crowded and cramped press room, located in the bowels of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in Manhattan. We all watched the video monitors as the awards unfolded, and when our personal favorites won, started yelling at the screen, the way longtime offtrack betting habitues yell when a race is on.
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Eat Me Daily, with a thoughtful analysis of and picks for the James Beard Book Awards....
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The James Beard Foundation just released the list of chef and restaurant semifinalists [PDF] for the nicknamed "Oscars of the food world." The nominees won't be announced until March. To give you a taste, we've listed the Outstanding Restaurant semifinalists after the jump; the PDF at the Beard site lists the rest—Outstanding Chef, Best New Restaurant, Rising Star Chef, etc....
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The so-called Oscars of the Food World will now accept nominations for blogs: "The Journalism Awards program has established a new James Beard Foundation Award for Blogs focusing on Food, Restaurants, Beverage, or Nutrition." It's not like web entities had been barred from entering, but its nice to see the foundation tip its hat explicitly to the impact blogs have had on the food world. Enter here, bloggers! [via Eater]...
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Michael Bauer of the San Francisco Chronicle on this year's James Beard awards: "What all this says to me is that as a dining nation we're growing up. Winning doesn't necessarily mean glitzy surroundings, high-profile names and chic locations; it's about how the people behind the stove translate their passion to diners."...
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I am just home from the
James Beard Awards and the various after-parties. Here are some not-so-random thoughts on the evening.
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All right, all right. Everyone has been asking me to make my predictions for the big national James Beard Awards (and the New York chef award) tonight at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. So, I'm going to do it. There are a couple of things everyone should know about the Beard Awards. The electorate tends to tilt toward New York chefs and restaurants and figures with a high media profile. I make my predictions with that notion in mind....
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