James Beard Cookbook Award Winners
Music has the Grammys, movies, the Oscars, TV, the Emmies. For foodies, it's the "Beardies". Each spring, the James Beard Foundation recognizes outstanding achievement in the world of food and cooking. There is no higher honor for a chef or a cookbook author than to wear the coveted Beard medallion.
If Julia Child is the mother of American gastronomy, then James Beard is its father. Throughout his life, he pursued and advocated the highest standards, and served as a mentor to emerging talents in the field of the culinary arts. After his death in 1985, Child had the idea to preserve Beard's home in New York City as the culinary gathering place it was throughout his life. The late Peter Kump, a former student of Beard's and the founder of the Institute of Culinary Education spearheaded the effort to purchase the house and create the Foundation.
Below is a listing of all the books that took home prizes at the Foundation's gala awards dinner last week.
(note: these books are for sale through KGI's Amazon store. If you can find them at an independent bookseller in your area, by all means do. If you can not, please consider making your purchase through KGI as 5% of the purchase price goes to us to support our educational and outreach activities. Thanks.)
SPICES OF LIFE: SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS RECIPES FOR GREAT HEALTH
Nina Simonds
BAKING AND DESSERTS
DOUGH: SIMPLE CONTEMPORARY BREAD
Richard Bertinet
COOKBOOK HALL OF FAME
AN INVITATION TO INDIAN COOKING
Madhur Jaffrey
HUNGRY PLANET: WHAT THE WORLD EATS
Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio
SUNDAY SUPPERS AT LUCQUES
Suzanne Goin
ENTERTAINING AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS
SIMPLE SOIRÉES: SEASONAL MENUS FOR SENSATIONAL DINNER PARTIES
Peggy Knickerbocker Stewart
FOOD OF THE AMERICAS
THE NEW AMERICAN COOKING
Joan Nathan
GENERAL
THE COOKS BOOK
Jill Norman
INTERNATIONAL
MOLTO ITALIANO
Mario Batali
PHOTOGRAPHY
NOBU NOW
Eiichi Takahashi
REFERENCE
CHEESE: A CONNOISSEURS GUIDE TO THE WORLDS BEST
Max McCalman and David Gibbons
SINGLE SUBJECT
BONES: RECIPES, HISTORY & LORE
Jennifer McLagan
WINE AND SPIRITS
WHISKEY
Michael Jackson
WRITINGS ON FOOD
HIDDEN KITCHENS: STORIES, RECIPES, AND MORE FROM NPR'S THE KITCHEN SISTERS
Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson
