The 2019 James Beard award nominations are out, with the winners to be chosen later this month. Each year, besides the best chefs and restaurants of America, the Beard Foundation also chooses a selection of excellent journalism and food reporting. For foodpreneurs or lovers of good reporting, we assembled the links to these great stories for your reading pleasure. Settle in with a beverage and get going!
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2019 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
Columns
America’s Best Worst Cook: “Hi, I’m America’s Best Worst Cook”; “Dear Chefs, Will Eating This Kill Me?” and “How to Roast a Chicken? The Answers Are Horrifying.”
JJ Goode
Taste
Local Fare: “The Question of Dinner”; “Dixie Vodka”; and “Folk Witness”
John T. Edge
Oxford American
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
“The Fire Gods of Washington, D.C.”; “David Chang’s Majordomo Is No Minor Feat”; and “North America’s Best Cantonese Food Is in Canada”
Bill Addison
Eater
“The Four Seasons Returns. But Can It Come Back?” “Why David Chang Matters”; and “A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle”
Pete Wells
The New York Times
Dining and Travel
Chau Down: “A New Orleans Food Diary”; “A Portland Food Diary”; and “A Chicago Food Diary”
Danny Chau
The Ringer
“Dim Sum Is Dead, Long Live Dim Sum”
Max Falkowitz
Airbnb Magazine
“Many Chinas, Many Tables”
Jonathan Kauffman and Team
San Francisco Chronicle
Feature Reporting
“Big in Japan”
Tejal Rao
The New York Times Magazine
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“Shell Game: Saving Florida’s Oysters Could Mean Killing a Way of Life”
Laura Reiley and Eve Edelheit
Tampa Bay Times
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
New York Magazine
Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, Maggie Bullock, and the Staff of New York Magazine
Roads & Kingdoms
Nathan Thornburgh, Matt Goulding, Anup Kaphle, and the Roads & Kingdoms Team
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Kurt Soller, Hanya Yanagihara, and the Staff of T Magazine
Foodways
“Back to Where It All Began: I Had Never Eaten in Ghana Before. But My Ancestors Had."
Michael W. Twitty
Bon Appétit
“A Hunger for Tomatoes”
Shane Mitchell
The Bitter Southerner
“What is Northern Food?”
Steve Hoffman
Artful Living
Health and Wellness
“Clean Label’s Dirty Little Secret”
Nadia Berenstein
The New Food Economy
“The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right” and “The Last Conversation You’ll Need to Have on Eating Right: The Follow-ups”
Mark Bittman and David L. Katz
New York Magazine / Grub Street
“‘White People Food’ Is Creating An Unattainable Picture Of Health”
Kristen Aiken
HuffPost
Home Cooking
“Melissa Clark’s Thanksgiving”
Melissa Clark
The New York Times
“The Subtle Thrills of Cold Chicken Salad”
Cathy Erway
Taste
“Top Secret Ingredients”
Kathleen Purvis
Garden & Gun
Innovative Storytelling
“In Search of Water-Boiled Fish”
Angie Wang
Eater
“100 Most Jewish Foods”
Alana Newhouse, Gabriella Gershenson, and Stephanie Butnick
Tablet Magazine
“What’s in a Food Truck?”
Bonnie Berkowitz, Seth Blanchard, Aaron Steckelberg, and Monica Ulmanu
The Washington Post
Investigative Reporting
“‘It's Not Fair, Not Right’: How America Treats Its Black Farmers”
Debbie Weingarten and Audra Mulkern
The Guardian and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
“A Killing Season”
Boyce Upholt
The New Republic
“Victims Blame FDA for Food-Recall Failures”
Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan
Politico
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“Storied Ovens”; “Food Outside the U.S. Open Gates”; and “A New Destination for Chinese Food: Not Flushing, but Forest Hills”
Max Falkowitz
The New York Times; Plate Magazine
“My Dinner at the Playboy Club”; “Curry and Roti Destination Singh’s Lights Up Queens”; and “Where New Yorkers Actually Eat in Times Square”
Robert Sietsema
Eater NY
“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
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“The Poet’s Table”
Mayukh Sen
Poetry Foundation
“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
“Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man”
Catherine Down
The New York Times
“Writing an Iranian Cookbook in an Age of Anxiety”
Naz Deravian
The Atlantic
Personal Essay, Short Form
“Doritos is Developing Lady-Friendly Chips Because You Should Never Hear a Woman Crunch”
Maura Judkis
The Washington Post
“I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This Is What I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left”
Fatima Ali
Bon Appétit
“Savoring the School Lunch”
Rebekah Denn
The Seattle Times
Profile
“Heaven Was a Place in Harlem”
Vince Dixon
Eater
“The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler”
Michael Adno
The Bitter Southerner
“‘You Died’: The Resurrection of a Cook in the Heart of SF’s Demanding Culinary Scene”
Jonathan Kauffman
San Francisco Chronicle
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages
“The Gulp War”
Dave Stroup
Eater
“‘Welch’s Grape Jelly with Alcohol’: How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency”
Corby Kummer
Vanity Fair
“Why Is the Wine World So Un-Woke?”
Jon Bonné
Punch
Publication of the Year will be decided by the members of the James Beard Awards Journalism Committee and will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Want more food business news, resources, and interviews in your inbox? Check out our weekly newsletter!
The 2019 James Beard award nominations are out, with the winners to be chosen later this month. Each year, besides the best chefs and restaurants of America, the Beard Foundation also chooses a selection of excellent journalism and food reporting. For foodpreneurs or lovers of good reporting, we assembled the links to these great stories for your reading pleasure. Settle in with a beverage and get going!
Love the Foodboro blog? Get our best content delivered to your inbox weekly!
2019 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
Columns
America’s Best Worst Cook: “Hi, I’m America’s Best Worst Cook”; “Dear Chefs, Will Eating This Kill Me?” and “How to Roast a Chicken? The Answers Are Horrifying.”
JJ Goode
Taste
Local Fare: “The Question of Dinner”; “Dixie Vodka”; and “Folk Witness”
John T. Edge
Oxford American
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
“The Fire Gods of Washington, D.C.”; “David Chang’s Majordomo Is No Minor Feat”; and “North America’s Best Cantonese Food Is in Canada”
Bill Addison
Eater
“The Four Seasons Returns. But Can It Come Back?” “Why David Chang Matters”; and “A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle”
Pete Wells
The New York Times
Dining and Travel
Chau Down: “A New Orleans Food Diary”; “A Portland Food Diary”; and “A Chicago Food Diary”
Danny Chau
The Ringer
“Dim Sum Is Dead, Long Live Dim Sum”
Max Falkowitz
Airbnb Magazine
“Many Chinas, Many Tables”
Jonathan Kauffman and Team
San Francisco Chronicle
Feature Reporting
“Big in Japan”
Tejal Rao
The New York Times Magazine
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“Shell Game: Saving Florida’s Oysters Could Mean Killing a Way of Life”
Laura Reiley and Eve Edelheit
Tampa Bay Times
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
New York Magazine
Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, Maggie Bullock, and the Staff of New York Magazine
Roads & Kingdoms
Nathan Thornburgh, Matt Goulding, Anup Kaphle, and the Roads & Kingdoms Team
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Kurt Soller, Hanya Yanagihara, and the Staff of T Magazine
Foodways
“Back to Where It All Began: I Had Never Eaten in Ghana Before. But My Ancestors Had."
Michael W. Twitty
Bon Appétit
“A Hunger for Tomatoes”
Shane Mitchell
The Bitter Southerner
“What is Northern Food?”
Steve Hoffman
Artful Living
Health and Wellness
“Clean Label’s Dirty Little Secret”
Nadia Berenstein
The New Food Economy
“The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right” and “The Last Conversation You’ll Need to Have on Eating Right: The Follow-ups”
Mark Bittman and David L. Katz
New York Magazine / Grub Street
“‘White People Food’ Is Creating An Unattainable Picture Of Health”
Kristen Aiken
HuffPost
Home Cooking
“Melissa Clark’s Thanksgiving”
Melissa Clark
The New York Times
“The Subtle Thrills of Cold Chicken Salad”
Cathy Erway
Taste
“Top Secret Ingredients”
Kathleen Purvis
Garden & Gun
Innovative Storytelling
“In Search of Water-Boiled Fish”
Angie Wang
Eater
“100 Most Jewish Foods”
Alana Newhouse, Gabriella Gershenson, and Stephanie Butnick
Tablet Magazine
“What’s in a Food Truck?”
Bonnie Berkowitz, Seth Blanchard, Aaron Steckelberg, and Monica Ulmanu
The Washington Post
Investigative Reporting
“‘It's Not Fair, Not Right’: How America Treats Its Black Farmers”
Debbie Weingarten and Audra Mulkern
The Guardian and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
“A Killing Season”
Boyce Upholt
The New Republic
“Victims Blame FDA for Food-Recall Failures”
Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan
Politico
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“Storied Ovens”; “Food Outside the U.S. Open Gates”; and “A New Destination for Chinese Food: Not Flushing, but Forest Hills”
Max Falkowitz
The New York Times; Plate Magazine
“My Dinner at the Playboy Club”; “Curry and Roti Destination Singh’s Lights Up Queens”; and “Where New Yorkers Actually Eat in Times Square”
Robert Sietsema
Eater NY
“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
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“The Poet’s Table”
Mayukh Sen
Poetry Foundation
“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
“Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man”
Catherine Down
The New York Times
“Writing an Iranian Cookbook in an Age of Anxiety”
Naz Deravian
The Atlantic
Personal Essay, Short Form
“Doritos is Developing Lady-Friendly Chips Because You Should Never Hear a Woman Crunch”
Maura Judkis
The Washington Post
“I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This Is What I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left”
Fatima Ali
Bon Appétit
“Savoring the School Lunch”
Rebekah Denn
The Seattle Times
Profile
“Heaven Was a Place in Harlem”
Vince Dixon
Eater
“The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler”
Michael Adno
The Bitter Southerner
“‘You Died’: The Resurrection of a Cook in the Heart of SF’s Demanding Culinary Scene”
Jonathan Kauffman
San Francisco Chronicle
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages
“The Gulp War”
Dave Stroup
Eater
“‘Welch’s Grape Jelly with Alcohol’: How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency”
Corby Kummer
Vanity Fair
“Why Is the Wine World So Un-Woke?”
Jon Bonné
Punch
Publication of the Year will be decided by the members of the James Beard Awards Journalism Committee and will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Want more food business news, resources, and interviews in your inbox? Check out our weekly newsletter!
The 2019 James Beard award nominations are out, with the winners to be chosen later this month. Each year, besides the best chefs and restaurants of America, the Beard Foundation also chooses a selection of excellent journalism and food reporting. For foodpreneurs or lovers of good reporting, we assembled the links to these great stories for your reading pleasure. Settle in with a beverage and get going!
Love the Foodboro blog? Get our best content delivered to your inbox weekly!
2019 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
Columns
America’s Best Worst Cook: “Hi, I’m America’s Best Worst Cook”; “Dear Chefs, Will Eating This Kill Me?” and “How to Roast a Chicken? The Answers Are Horrifying.”
JJ Goode
Taste
Local Fare: “The Question of Dinner”; “Dixie Vodka”; and “Folk Witness”
John T. Edge
Oxford American
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
“The Fire Gods of Washington, D.C.”; “David Chang’s Majordomo Is No Minor Feat”; and “North America’s Best Cantonese Food Is in Canada”
Bill Addison
Eater
“The Four Seasons Returns. But Can It Come Back?” “Why David Chang Matters”; and “A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle”
Pete Wells
The New York Times
Dining and Travel
Chau Down: “A New Orleans Food Diary”; “A Portland Food Diary”; and “A Chicago Food Diary”
Danny Chau
The Ringer
“Dim Sum Is Dead, Long Live Dim Sum”
Max Falkowitz
Airbnb Magazine
“Many Chinas, Many Tables”
Jonathan Kauffman and Team
San Francisco Chronicle
Feature Reporting
“Big in Japan”
Tejal Rao
The New York Times Magazine
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“Shell Game: Saving Florida’s Oysters Could Mean Killing a Way of Life”
Laura Reiley and Eve Edelheit
Tampa Bay Times
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
New York Magazine
Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, Maggie Bullock, and the Staff of New York Magazine
Roads & Kingdoms
Nathan Thornburgh, Matt Goulding, Anup Kaphle, and the Roads & Kingdoms Team
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Kurt Soller, Hanya Yanagihara, and the Staff of T Magazine
Foodways
“Back to Where It All Began: I Had Never Eaten in Ghana Before. But My Ancestors Had."
Michael W. Twitty
Bon Appétit
“A Hunger for Tomatoes”
Shane Mitchell
The Bitter Southerner
“What is Northern Food?”
Steve Hoffman
Artful Living
Health and Wellness
“Clean Label’s Dirty Little Secret”
Nadia Berenstein
The New Food Economy
“The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right” and “The Last Conversation You’ll Need to Have on Eating Right: The Follow-ups”
Mark Bittman and David L. Katz
New York Magazine / Grub Street
“‘White People Food’ Is Creating An Unattainable Picture Of Health”
Kristen Aiken
HuffPost
Home Cooking
“Melissa Clark’s Thanksgiving”
Melissa Clark
The New York Times
“The Subtle Thrills of Cold Chicken Salad”
Cathy Erway
Taste
“Top Secret Ingredients”
Kathleen Purvis
Garden & Gun
Innovative Storytelling
“In Search of Water-Boiled Fish”
Angie Wang
Eater
“100 Most Jewish Foods”
Alana Newhouse, Gabriella Gershenson, and Stephanie Butnick
Tablet Magazine
“What’s in a Food Truck?”
Bonnie Berkowitz, Seth Blanchard, Aaron Steckelberg, and Monica Ulmanu
The Washington Post
Investigative Reporting
“‘It's Not Fair, Not Right’: How America Treats Its Black Farmers”
Debbie Weingarten and Audra Mulkern
The Guardian and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
“A Killing Season”
Boyce Upholt
The New Republic
“Victims Blame FDA for Food-Recall Failures”
Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan
Politico
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“Storied Ovens”; “Food Outside the U.S. Open Gates”; and “A New Destination for Chinese Food: Not Flushing, but Forest Hills”
Max Falkowitz
The New York Times; Plate Magazine
“My Dinner at the Playboy Club”; “Curry and Roti Destination Singh’s Lights Up Queens”; and “Where New Yorkers Actually Eat in Times Square”
Robert Sietsema
Eater NY
“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
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
“The Poet’s Table”
Mayukh Sen
Poetry Foundation
“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
“Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man”
Catherine Down
The New York Times
“Writing an Iranian Cookbook in an Age of Anxiety”
Naz Deravian
The Atlantic
Personal Essay, Short Form
“Doritos is Developing Lady-Friendly Chips Because You Should Never Hear a Woman Crunch”
Maura Judkis
The Washington Post
“I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This Is What I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left”
Fatima Ali
Bon Appétit
“Savoring the School Lunch”
Rebekah Denn
The Seattle Times
Profile
“Heaven Was a Place in Harlem”
Vince Dixon
Eater
“The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler”
Michael Adno
The Bitter Southerner
“‘You Died’: The Resurrection of a Cook in the Heart of SF’s Demanding Culinary Scene”
Jonathan Kauffman
San Francisco Chronicle
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages
“The Gulp War”
Dave Stroup
Eater
“‘Welch’s Grape Jelly with Alcohol’: How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency”
Corby Kummer
Vanity Fair
“Why Is the Wine World So Un-Woke?”
Jon Bonné
Punch
Publication of the Year will be decided by the members of the James Beard Awards Journalism Committee and will be announced at the awards ceremony.
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