James Beard Winners Announced

The James Beard Foundation announced its Monday night at its annual awards ceremony.

Hosted by chef and television personality Alton Brown at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, awards in the Restaurant and Chef and the Design and Graphics categories were presented as well as a number of special achievement awards including Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America, America’s Classics, Lifetime Achievement, and Humanitarian of the Year.

Winners of the Foundation’s annual Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards were presented on May 4 at the ceremony and dinner at Gotham Hall in New York City, co-hosted by celebrity chef Michael Symon and CBS News Correspondent Martha Teichner.

Here are the winners:

Outstanding Chef: Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park, NYC)
Outstanding Restaurant: Boulevard (San Francisco)
Rising Star Chef: Christina Tosi (Momofuku Milk Bar, NYC)
Best New Restaurant: Next (Chicago)
In addition, special achievement award honorees included:
Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America: Grant Achatz (Chef and Author, Chicago); Mark Bittman (Journalist and Author, NYC); Dana Cowin (Editor and Journalist, NYC); Emily Luchetti (Pastry Chef and Author, San Francisco); Marvin Shanken (Publisher, NYC)
America’s Classics: The Fry Bread House (Owner: Cecelia Miller, Phoenix); Nora’s Fish Creek Inn (Owners: Nora Tygum, Trace Tygum, and Kathryn Tygum Taylor, Wilson, WY); St. Elmo Steak House (Owners: Stephen Huse and Craig Huse, Indianapolis); Jones Bar-B-Q Diner (Owners: James and Betty Jones, Marianna, AR); Shady Glen (Owners: William and Annette Hoch, Manchester, CT)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Wolfgang Puck (Chef and Restaurateur, Los Angeles)
Humanitarian of the Year: Charlie Trotter (Chef and Restaurateur, Chicago)

Cookbook of the Year: Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold with Chris Young and Maxime Bilet (The Cooking Lab)
Cookbook Hall of Fame: Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking
Publications of the Year: Food52, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs and Darra Goldstein, Gastronomica
MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award: John T. Edge, Saveur “BBQ Nation”
Radio Show or Audio Webcast: Fear of Frying: Culinary Nightmares, Host: Nina Barrett, Area: WBEZ, Producer: Jason Marck
Television Program, In Studio or Fixed Location: Chopped, Host: Ted Allen and Judges, Network: Food Network, Producers: Linda Lea, Dave Noll, and Vivian Sorenson
Television Program, On Location: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Host: Andrew Zimmern, Network: Travel Channel, Producer: Andrew Zimmern
Media Personality/Host: Ted Allen, Show: Chopped, Food Network
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication: Lesley Bargar Suter, Los Angeles, “Chinese Food in L.A.,” “It’s Time for Breakfast in L.A.” “Food Lovers Guide”
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review: Alan Richman, GQ, “The Very Tasty Liberation of Paris,” “I Heart SF,” “Diner for Schmucks”
Group Food Blog: The Salt: NPR’s Food Blog, Maria Godoy, npr.org/blogs/thesalt
Individual Food Blog: Poor Man’s Feast, Elissa Altman, Poormansfeast.com “Craving the Food of Depravity”
2012 James Beard Foundation Awards Winners
A New Turn in the South: Southern Flavors Reinvented for Your Kitchen, by Hugh Acheson
(Clarkson Potter)
Baking and Dessert
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, by Jeni Britton Bauer (Artisan)

Beverage
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, & Formulas
by Brad Thomas Parsons (Ten Speed Press)

General Cooking
Ruhlman’s Twenty, by Michael Ruhlman(Chronicle Books)

Focus on Health
Super Natural Every Day: Well-Loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen by Heidi Swanson (Ten Speed Press)

International
The Food of Morocco by Paula Wolfert (Ecco)

Photography

Notes from a Kitchen: A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession Artist/Photographer: Jeff Scott (Tatroux)

Reference and Scholarship

Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920 by Andrew P. Haley (The University of North Carolina Press)

Single Subject

All About Roasting by Molly Stevens (W.W. Norton & Company)

Writing and Literature

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)

2012 James Beard Foundation Design and Graphics Awards

Outstanding Restaurant Design

2012 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards

For articles published in English in 2011.

Publications of the Year

Food52, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs
Gastronomica, Darra Goldstein

Cooking, Recipes, or Instruction

Anna Thomas, EatingWell “The Soup for Life,”

Environment, Food Politics, and Policy

Ben Paynter, Fast Company, “The Sweet Science”

Food Coverage in a Food-Focused Publication