James Beard Media Award Winners for 2019
Now we want to read and listen to all and everything on the list. AND you know our cookbook library is about to get a little bigger! YIKES ! Congratulations to the 2019 James Beard Media Award winners! The James Beard Awards Gala is on May 6, when they announce the Restaurant and Chef Award winners and stream the event live on Twitter and at jamesbeard.org/awards, as well as tweeting the winners in real time.
Catch up on all of this year’s Media Award nominees with links to read and clips to watch, below:
The 2019 James Beard Foundation Book Awards
For cookbooks and other non-fiction food- or beverage-related books that were published in the U.S. in 2018.
American
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day JJ Johnson and Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers (Flatiron Books)
Baking and Desserts
SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East Greg Malouf and Lucy Malouf (Hardie Grant Books)
Beverage
Wine Folly: Magnum Edition Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack (Avery)
General
Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Christopher Kimball (Little, Brown and Company)
Health and Special Diets
Eat a Little Better Sam Kass (Clarkson Potter)
International
Feast: Food of the Islamic World Anissa Helou (Ecco)
Photography
Tokyo New Wave Andrea Fazzari (Ten Speed Press)
Reference, History, and Scholarship
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry Anna Zeide (University of California Press)
Restaurant and Professional
Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong Matt Abergel (Phaidon Press)
Single Subject
Goat: Cooking and Eating James Whetlor(Quadrille Publishing)
Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Saladish Ilene Rosen (Artisan Books)
Writing
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine Edward Lee (Artisan Books)
Book of the Year
Cocktail Codex Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, with Devon Tarby(Ten Speed Press)
Cookbook Hall of Fame Jessica B. Harris
2019 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards
For radio, television broadcasts, podcasts, webcasts, and documentaries appearing in 2018.
Documentary
Modified Airs on: Film festivals and Vimeo
Online Video, Fixed Location and/or Instructional
MasterClass – Dominique Ansel Teaches French Pastry Fundamentals Airs on: MasterClass
Online Video, on Location
First We Feast’s Food Skills – Mozzarella Kings of New York
Airs on: YouTube
Outstanding Personality
Marcus Samuelsson No Passport Required Airs on: PBS
Outstanding Reporting
Deep Dive and Food for Thought, 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics Reporter: David Chang Airs on: NBC, NBCSN
Podcast
Copper & Heat – Be a Girl Airs on: Copper & Heat, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher
Radio Show
The Food Chain – Raw Grief and Widowed Airs on: BBC World Service
Special (on TV or Online)
Spencer’s BIG Holiday Airs on: Gusto
Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location
Pati’s Mexican Table – Tijuana: Stories from the Border Airs on: WETA Washington; Distributed Nationally by American Public Television
Television Program, on Location
Salt Fat Acid Heat – Salt Airs on: Netflix
Visual and Technical Excellence
Anthony Bourdain: Explore Parts Unknown Sarah Hagey, August Thurmer, and Kate Kunath Airs on: CNN, Explore Parts Unknown, Roads & Kingdoms
2019 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
For articles published in English in 2018.
Columns
What We Talk About When We Talk About American Food: “The Pickled Cucumbers That Survived the 1980s AIDS Epidemic”; “A Second Look at the Tuna Sandwich’s All-American History”; and “Freedom and Borscht for Ukrainian-Jewish Émigrés”
Mari Uyehara
Taste
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award
Counter Intelligence: “The Hearth & Hound, April Bloomfield’s New Los Angeles Restaurant, Is Nothing Like a Gastropub”; “There’s Crocodile and Hog Stomach, but Jonathan Gold Is All About the Crusty Rice at Nature Pagoda”; and “At Middle Eastern Restaurants, It All Starts with Hummus. Jonathan Gold says Bavel’s Is Magnificent”Jonathan Gold Los Angeles Times
Dining and Travel
“Many Chinas, Many Tables” Jonathan Kauffman and Team San Francisco Chronicle
Feature Reporting
“A Kingdom from Dust” Mark Arax The California Sunday Magazine
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
New York Magazine Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, Maggie Bullock, and the Staff of New York Magazine
Foodways
“A Hunger for Tomatoes” Shane Mitchell The Bitter Southerner
Health and Wellness
“Clean Label’s Dirty Little Secret” Nadia Berenstein The New Food Economy
Home Cooking
“The Subtle Thrills of Cold Chicken Salad” Cathy Erway Taste
Innovative Storytelling
“In Search of Water-Boiled Fish” Angie Wang Eater
Investigative Reporting
“A Killing Season” Boyce Upholt The New Republic
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“Yes Indeed, Lord: Queen’s Cuisine, Where Everything Comes from the Heart”; “Top 10 New Orleans Restaurants for 2019”; and “Sexual Harassment Allegations Preceded Sucré Co-Founder Tariq Hanna’s Departure” Brett Anderson Nola.com | The Times-Picayune
M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
“What Is Northern Food?” Steve Hoffman Artful Living
Personal Essay, Long Form
“I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter” Geraldine DeRuiter
Everywhereist.com
Personal Essay, Short Form
“I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This Is What I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left” Fatima Ali Bon Appétit
Profile
“The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler” Michael Adno The Bitter Southerner
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages
“‘Welch’s Grape Jelly with Alcohol’: How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency” Corby Kummer Vanity Fair
Publication of the Year
The New York Times
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