James Beard Foundation Award Winners

A list of books that either won the James Beard Foundation Award, or are by or about Chefs or Restaurants that have won a James Beard Foundation Award.

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Book cover for "Between Harlem and Heaven"
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2019 JBF American Cookbook of the Year
Book cover for "Bravetart"
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4 stars
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2018 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook of the Year
Book cover for "Cocktail codex"
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2019 JBF Cookbook of the Year
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"From the authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors' unique "cocktail families" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails"--
Book cover for "Cúrate"
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3.7 stars
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Curate, Katie Button's Asheville Restaurant, is the 2022 JBF Award Winner for Outstanding Hospitality
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"The vibrant flavors of Spain brought into the American home kitchen by a young lauded chef and founder of one of America's most acclaimed new restaurants Katie Button debuts her first cookbook ever as a peek inside the kitchen of her award-winning restaurant, Cúrate"--
Book cover for "Dorie's cookies"
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5 stars
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2017 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook Award Winner
Book cover for "Every grain of rice"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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2014 JBF International Cookbook Award Winner
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A culinary reference features southern Chinese recipes, shares a comprehensive introduction to key seasonings and techniques, and offers such options as smoky eggplant with garlic, twice-cooked pork, and emergency midnight noodles.
Book cover for "Everyone's table"
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2022 JBF General Cookbook of the Year
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"Top Chef star Gregory Gourdet's ... cookbook has the culinary sophistication ... of Yottam Ottolenghi books and goes a step further, featuring only healthy recipes free of gluten, dairy, soy, refined sugar, and legumes"--
Book cover for "Flavor flours"
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2015 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook Award Winner
Book cover for "The food lab"
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4.3 stars
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2016 JBF General Cookbook Award Winner
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"As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered [how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it] and more. In [this book], Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don't work that well,...
Book cover for "In Bibi's kitchen"
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2 stars
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2022 JBF International Cookbook of the Year
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"Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue"--
Book cover for "Jubilee"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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2020 JBF American Cookbook of the Year
Book cover for "The Korean vegan cookbook"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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2022 JBF Vegetable-Focused Cooking Cookbook of the Year
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"Korean dishes, some traditional and some reimagined, from the home cook and storyteller behind @thekoreanvegan on TikTok"--
Book cover for "Mister Jiu's in Chinatown"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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2022 JBF Resaurant & Professional Cookbook of the Year. Brandon Jew won the 2022 JBF Award for Best Chef: California
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"The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's in San Francisco's Chinatown shares stories of the past, present, and future of Chinese cooking in America through 90 mouthwatering recipes"--
Book cover for "Mooncakes & milk bread"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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2022 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook of the Year
Book cover for "My America"
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Kwame Onwuachi is the 2019 JBF Rising Star Chef of the Year Award winner
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"A cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef"--
Book cover for "Nopalito"
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2018 JBF International Cookbook of the Year
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"A collection of 100 recipes for anyone who wants to cook traditional Mexican food in all its surprising freshness and variety, ranging from the simplest dishes to more complex ones, and including both the classic and the lesser-known regional gems of this cuisine. Nopalito provides a snapshot of regional Mexican cuisine from the perspective of Gonzalo Guzman, head chef at San Francisco's popular restaurant of the same name. With recipes for 100 traditional...
Book cover for "The pho cookbook"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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2018 JBF Single Subject Cookbook of the Year
Book cover for "Poole's"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Ashley Christensen is the 2019 JBF Outstanding Chef Award winner
Book cover for "Rodney Scott's world of BBQ"
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Rodney Scott is the 2018 JBF Best Chef: Southeast Award winner
Book cover for "Saladish"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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2019 JBF Vegetable-Focused Cooking Cookbook of the Year
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Winner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in Vegetable-Focused Cooking
“Elevates salads from the quotidian to the thrilling.”
The New York Times

A “saladish” recipe is like a salad, and yet so much more. It starts with an unexpectedly wide range of ingredients, such as Japanese eggplants, broccoli rabe, shirataki noodles, Bosc pears, and chrysanthemum leaves. It emphasizes...