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Food and Cooking Awards

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    May 6, 2013

    The 2013 James Beard Chef Awards: Los Angeles Gets The Shaft

    The James Beard Chef Awards have just wrapped up in New York City, and Los Angeles took home zero awards. It's hard to resist feeling kinda whiny when looking at the list of winners and considering that New York City got 7 awards and accounted for 50% of all the non-region-specific awards (as well ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2013

    Food & Wine Best New Chefs 2013 Announced

    Food & Wine announced their highly anticipated list of 2013 Best New Chefs this morning. They did this not by sending out a memo -- well, there was one of those eventually -- but by tweeting out the list with a hashtag (#BNC25). Welcome to life as we know it. Congratulations, @MVoltaggio! Chef Micha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    More Events: Best New Chef Dinners, Italian Passover Dinner Sandwich Deal

    Best New Chef Dinners For two evenings, Ricardo Zarate, Stephane Bombet, Food GPS and Food & Wine will be hosting a collaborative multi-course dinner to celebrate the magazine's Best New Chef honorees at Paiche in Marina del Rey restaurant. Each night will feature a tag-team effort with Tuesday show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    2013 James Beard Finalists: The L.A. Edition

    The James Beard Foundation unveiled award finalists earlier this morning. Among the hometown candidates who remain contenders for the award are the following: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal) for Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino, Valentino Vin Bar) and Carolyn Styne (Lucq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2013

    Vote for Food & Wine's Best New Chef in California: Four L.A. Chefs In The Running

    Food & Wine magazine's annual Best New Chef competition is up and running, and while in some ways it's just one more meaningless popularity contest aimed at garnering huge pageviews for the magazine's website, it will certainly help the chef who comes away with the title. (See Ricardo Zarate, who wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2013

    James Beard Semifinalists 2013 Announced: The L.A. Edition

    The James Beard Foundation has just announced their semifinalists for the 2013 chef and restaurant awards. To be clear, this is not a list of nominees, but rather a list from which the nominees will be chosen. L.A. has quite a showing, in the national categories as well as in our region. For Bes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2012

    Bryant Ng on Relocating The Spice Table a 2nd Restaurant

    This week brought some (temporarily) bad news from Little Tokyo: due to damage caused by a pipe leak earlier this month, The Spice Table will be shuttering for lunch service. Chef Bryant Ng explained to us that the equipment used to bake the baguettes for the banh mí sandwiches was non-functional, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2012

    Food News Roundup: Gay Rights Oreo Graphic, Tomato and Strawberry Gazpacho Foods That Improve Sexual Health

    Bon Appetit: 10 foods that possess aphrodisiac qualities and can (theoretically) improve your sexual health. MSNBC Bites: Rainbow Oreo graphic celebrating LGBT pride month sparks advertising controversy. Eatocracy: Remembering Nora Ephron through her film Julie & Julia, as well as Ephron's other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    James Beard 2012 Award Winners

    The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/9 - 4/13

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You complete the machine, in other words, but the machine does not complete you." Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug. "I have to watch out for bears? Are you serious?" Q & A With Bryant Ng: The S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Food & Wine Picks 2012 Best New Chefs: Congratulations Bryant Ng of The Spice Table

    Last night Food & Wine editor Dana Cowin announced the winners of that magazine's 24th annual Best New Chefs in America award. You know the drill: ten chefs from around the country are picked, awarded, featured in the July issue and fêted at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic this summer. So, drumroll p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    2012 IACP Award Winners Announced

    The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2012 award winners at their annual conference last night in Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

    Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced

    Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Taste Awards Nominees Announced: Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown Steve Jobs

    Taste Awards​What do Steve Jobs, Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Chew have in common? They'll each be recognized during the next annual Taste Awards. Contrary to the name, the award ceremony, held January's 3rd in Hollywood, honors not just food but style and home lifestyle programming in television, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Esquire Names John Sedlar Chef of the Year

    A. ScattergoodJohn Sedlar at Rivera​John Sedlar's been having a pretty good year. First he opened Playa, then he staged a glorious revival of his Saint Estèphe menu at Rivera, and yesterday he won Esquire's Chef of the Year title for 2011. Oh, and he took some time to hunt maguey worms in Mex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Live & Dine LA: Angeleno Restaurant Awards [Photo Gallery]

    Guzzle & NoshScenes from Live & Dine LA 2011.​ Akasha Richmond walked away with the big prize, an award for a chef who has demonstrated not only top notch kitchen skills but a dedication to community service, at last night's Live & Dine LA awards, but the focus of the evening was on LA's risi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Ribfest, Soda Tasting, Food For Thought, Live & Dine LA ColLAboration Beer Garden

    ColLAboration Beer Garden Forget Bastille Day. In honor of Belgian Independence Day (actually celebrated on July 21st), ColLAboration will theoretically have Belgian brews on tap at its third summer beer garden. Technically, ColLAboration is a members-only club. For members, admission is free f; f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Goes to New York City

    Anne Fishbein​ This week's Counter Intelligence goes bi-coastal, as our critic travels to New York City -- there for the James Beard awards, of which he picked up a few more to stash in his overstuffed Altadena closet -- to check out the dinner scene. Man, or some of them, cannot live in San G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Ricardo Zarate Wins Food & Wine Best New Chef The Rest of the Winners

    Anne Fishbein​ Last night Food & Wine announced their awards for this year's Best New Chefs. The ten winners, picked from around the country, included one chef from Los Angeles: Ricardo Zarate of Mo-Chica, who can now add this award to his accolades, which include showing up on Coca-Cola billb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    James Beard 2011 Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

    ​Award season is approaching again, and we don't just mean the Oscars. The nominations for Food & Wine's best new chef award opened yesterday, and now the James Beard Foundation has announced the semifinalists for their restaurant and chef awards. Here's the complete (very long) list. The Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Food & Wine Best New Chef 2011, The People's Edition: Vote Now

    ​ 2011 may well be the year of the grassroots movement, whether that be in politics abroad or in considerably less important matters here at home. Food & Wine, which has annually named the best new chefs in the country since 1998, this year has given the vote to the rest of us. Starting today, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Food Bloggers Now Eligible for James Beard Foundation Awards

    James Beard FoundationA Coveted James Beard Award​ In barely the blink of an eye, food blogging has exploded. Sometimes it seems that hardly an accountant, construction worker, or production assistant is without a personal blog detailing their relationship with food, or at the very least, the ... More >>

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