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Awards that honor darn good and tasty food: we support that. The
Seedling Projects will host the first-ever
Good Food Awards for craft food-makers across America. The seven categories include: beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles, and preserves.
Nominate your favorites before September 15. The products will be judged by food personalities like Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters in October during a daylong blind tasting at San Francisco's Ferry Building. The awards will be given out January 14. May the finest kimchi and terrines win!
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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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The
International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) just
announced their annual Cookbook Awards finalists. Lots of great books in all 16 categories, including this week's Cook the Book
My New Orleans by John Besh, as well as
Real Cajun by Donald Link,
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller,
Mad Hungry by Lucinda Scala Quinn, and many others. Congratulations to all of the nominees. The winners will be announced in April.
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Rogue River Blue, the beautiful grape-leaf wrapped blue cheese from Oregon's Rogue River Creamery, took top honors at this year's American Cheese Society competition, held last week in Austin, Texas. Rogue is actually one of the older creameries in the country, in operation since 1935. It also took home awards for its flavored cheddars, Chocolate Stout, and Lavender, as well as its Smokey Blue....
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Each year, the web's best blogs are highlighted at the Weblog Awards at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference. Winners were announced yesterday. The full list is available on the Bloggies website, but here are the food-related winners. Lots of multiple winners this year. Best Food Weblog: Cake Wrecks [Read the rest, after the jump.]...
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She tipped off readers of the New York Times magazine five years ago that Wine Spectator "granted [its Award of Excellence], the lowest of three levels of recognition by the magazine, without actually inspecting the restaurants involved."...
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PC Magazine did some surfing, found us on the internet, and named us one of the top undiscovered websites of 2008. Who knew we were undiscovered!? Certainly not our regular readers. We're proud to share the title with others out there like WooMe.com, a speed dating website where total strangers join video chats, and if sparks fly, they can pay for personal contact info of those wooed....
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Our friends at Eater San Francisco live-blogged the Golden Clog Awards. We are sure Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman were sufficiently inebriated (even in the daytime) to make the whole affair more than a little amusing. Some of the high-lowlights: The Fergus Award for "greatest achievement in pork and guts" went to David Chang of Momfuku fame. The Rocco for "worst career move" went to Tyler Florence for "Applebee's, Applebee's, Applebee's." Ina Garten won The Alton, for "being on the Food Network and yet, somehow, managing to not suck."...
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The nominees for the inaugural Golden Clog Awards were announced on Eater today. The Golden Clogs were created by Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman to honor, dishonor, or skewer various people in the food biz.
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The funny folks at the Endless Simmer have their own Eater of the Year Award election going on. We love any award category broad enough to include Joey Chestnut, Al Gore, and Padma Lakshmi (among others) as nominees....
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