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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5 stars
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2022 JBF Baking & Desserts Cookbook of the Year
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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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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...
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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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4.5 stars
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2018 JBF Single Subject Cookbook of the Year
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3.7 stars
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Ashley Christensen is the 2019 JBF Outstanding Chef Award winner
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Rodney Scott is the 2018 JBF Best Chef: Southeast Award winner
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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...
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4.5 stars
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2018 JBF General Cookbook of the Year
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*Over 1 million copies sold * New York Times bestseller * Winner of the James Beard Award and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards * Available as a Netflix series *

Transform how you prep, cook, and think about food with this visionary master class in cooking by Samin Nosrat that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements—from the woman declared "America's next great cooking teacher" by Alice...
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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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Ricky Moore won the 2022 JBF Award for Best Chef: Southeast
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"Ricky Moore was born and raised in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern, where catching and eating fresh fish and shellfish is what people do. Today, Moore is one of the most widely admired chefs to come out of the region. In this cookbook, he tells the story of how he started his wildly popular Saltbox Seafood Joint restaurants in Durham, North Carolina. It was a culinary epiphany in the famous wet markets and hawker stalls of Singapore that...
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2018 JBF American Cookbook of the Year; Owamni, Sean Sherman's Minneapolis restaurant, is the 2022 JBF Best New Restaurant Award Winner
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4.7 stars
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2018 JBF Vegetable-Focused Cooking Cookbook of the Year
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Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, Food Network Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, USA Today, Seattle Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Library Journal, Eater, and more

  Featured in The Strategist ’s Nonobvious...
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3 stars
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2017 JBF Nonfiction Book Award Winner
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5 stars
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2017 JBF International Cookbook Award Winner
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3.5 stars
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2019 JBF General Cookbook of the Year
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"More than 200 simple weeknight dinners that deliver big weekend flavor in under an hour--with many that take only 25 minutes"--
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2017 JBF Book of the Year
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"Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia"--
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4 stars
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2020 JBF General Cookbook of the Year
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"A modern approach to cooking at home, with more than 70 innately flexible recipes"--
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5 stars
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2020 JBF Vegetable-Focused Cooking Cookbook of the Year
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Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Named one of the Best Cookbooks
of the Year / Best Cookbooks to Give as Gifts in 2019 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Bon Appétit, Martha Stewart Living, Epicurious, and more
 
Named one of the Best Healthy Cookbooks of 2019 by Forbes
“Gorgeous. . ....
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4.5 stars
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Michael Solomonov is the 2017 JBF Outstanding Chef Award winner, and Zahav is the 2019 JBF Outstanding Restaurant Award winner