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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2022 JBF Reference, Scholarship and History Book of the Year
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"Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating it; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller--admitted 'cuehead and longtime certified barbecue judge--that in today's barbecue culture...
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Mashama Bailey is the 2022 JBF Outstanding Chef Award Winner and was previously awarded the 2019 JBF Best Chef: Southeast.
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"Food brings people together, but can it help heal the racial divide? At The Grey in Savannah, Georgia, a rising-star black woman chef and a food-obsessed white businessman are equal partners who're breaking barriers--one plate at a time. Black, White, and The Grey is a story about the mission, trials, and triumphs of two individuals who had little in common--except an obsession for great food--until they came together through an awakened determination...
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4 stars
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2018 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook of the Year
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2020 JBF Food Writing Book of the Year
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"In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith--pioneer of regenerative ocean agriculture--introduces the world to a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis."--
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2022 JBF Food Writing Book of the Year
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"From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the...
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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"--
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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"--
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Sam Calagione is the 2017 JBF Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional Award winner
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Calagione considers an innovative approach to business by exploring what happens when companies stop competing and start collaborating-- both externally in the marketplace and internally in building a culture of communication, trust and alignment. Members of the leadership team at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, as well as external mentors from the worlds of business and art, showcase how competing organizations can work together to reach a common goal....
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4 stars
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2014 JBF Writing & Literature Book Award Winner
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The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet.
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3 stars
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2017 JBF Nonfiction Book Award Winner