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James Beard Foundation

  • 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

    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

    January 17, 2013

    Food News Roundup: Existential Food Questions, Bacon Rillettes A Novice's Guide to Craft Beer

    Michael Ruhlman: The single biggest problem in home kitchens? Dull knives. Smithsonian Magazine: The Novice's Guide to Venturing Into the World of Craft Beer. Food Republic: Existential Food Questions, Part 1. James Beard Foundation blog: How to make bacon rillettes. Eatocracy: My 8 most stained ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2013

    Food News Roundup: 10 Worst Meals in 2012, Fishing With Dynamite How to Eat a Persimmon

    The Guardian: How to eat a persimmon. Pigeons & Planes: 20 Things Everyone Thinks About The Food World (But Nobody Will Say). Riding Shotgun: Happy New Year's from Roy Choi. The New York Times: After Crispy Pig Ears, 10 Trends for 2013. Daily Dish: Fishing With Dynamite, David LeFevre's new rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2012

    4: Butterscotch Budino at Mozza

    Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 4: Butterscotch Budino at Mozza. There are many, many reasons to spend time at the glorious food complex that is Mozza on the corner of Melrose and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2012

    The State Department Unveils the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership

    We thought we were going to a small reception at the State Department. It was day 3 of the Association of Food Journalists annual conference, this year held in Washington D.C. As we stood in line to undergo the rigorous security clearances needed to enter the building (we had been asked to provide d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2012

    Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle

    Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2012

    Sam Choy Launches Pineapple Express Truck This Week

    It's been a while since we've gotten revved up over a mobile eatery, but when Sam Choy, a James Beard Award winner and the so-called "father of modern Hawaiian cuisine," decides to open a food truck, it's time to bust out your hula shirt. The Pineapple Express truck will serve breakfast, lunch, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2012

    Street Gourmet L.A.'s Bill Esparza on Bizarre Food America Tonight

    L.A.-based food blogger and professional saxophonist Bill Esparza, whom you might remember from his L.A. Weekly piece about being a "reverse coyote" for Tijuana food tourists, will serve as guide for Bizarre Food America host and man-who-will-eat-anything Andrew Zimmern as the duo explore San Diego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    Urbanspoon Launches "Right Now": A New Way to Find Something to Eat, Um, Right Now

    Online reservations, especially ones you can make using your phone, are pretty darn convenient. There are a ton of companies that offer this service, although Open Table pretty much owns the bulk of the market. But yesterday Urbanspoon launched a new service through its Rezbook function, which allow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Tales of the Cocktail Nominees Announced: Congrats, Los Angeles

    For ten years, Tales of the Cocktail has been doing for cocktail culture what the James Beard Foundation has been doing for food culture: advancing the craft of the drink through education, networking, promotion, as well as a bit of sanctioned mayhem. Each summer the organization throws a massive pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Food News Roundup: Food Stamps at Farmers Markets, Disneyland's Club 33 Eater L.A.'s Pizza Week

    The Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $4 million grant will help supply the technology for farmers markets to accept food stamps. (The Electronic Benefit Transfer card has largely replaced paper coupons.) Eater L.A.: Chinese pizzas, most expensive pizzas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Live Stream the James Beard Awards: Cheer Mozza Possible Foie Protest

    If you're the sort of food-obsessed person who will be following Twitter this afternoon and evening to find out exactly who's winning awards, or who's complaining about not having done so, at tonight's James Beard award ceremony, you might consider just live streaming the event. That's what the folk ... 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 18, 2012

    Read This Now, or Soon: Naomi Duguid & Rozanne Gold Start Columns in Cooking Light

    Granted, you may be the sort of person who reads Lucky Peach and daydreams about Arzak eggs and impossibly rich pork broth instead of salad, but you might want to start checking out Cooking Light anyway. No, this is not an intervention. (Unless you want it to be.) Cooking Light is about a lot more t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    L.A. Weekly Food: New Hires and Big (Exciting!) Changes

    Let's start by stating the obvious: There have been big changes to the L.A. Weekly's food section recently. And there are even more on the way. After our longtime critic Jonathan Gold departed for the L.A. Times, we've been nibbling on this and that: a reflection on cookbooks from Roy Choi, a piece ... 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 28, 2012

    Tonight at Farmshop: Colman Andrews Italian Food

    This evening, a hometown hero returns to Santa Monica. We write of celebrated cookbook author and restaurant reviewer Colman Andrews. Offspring of a radio soap scribe and an actress, former student at Loyola Marymount, City College, and UCLA respectively, Andrews is a co-founder of Saveur magazine ... 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

    February 2, 2012

    Top Chef Casting Call at The Foundry

    Top Chef is turning 10! Are you surprised? Unlikely. They only win Emmys and James Beard awards out the wazoo. If we were Bravo, we'd keep milking that cash cow as well. But of course, one needs new talent to keep those Quickfires hot, which means it's casting call time.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Cochon 555 Now Has A Rewards Program -- Kind of Like Costco

    Anne FishbeinThe scene at Cochon 555 2011​The well-heeled hedonists who flip like patties over Cochon 555's annual baptism-by-pork don't need any extra incentives to support local agriculture. Pork shoulder bánh mì, carnitas tacos, and maple pork-fat ice cream reel them in just fine. Yet C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 1: From Culinary High Schooler to Noma Stagier

    Photo by Shauna Miller​It seems some chefs just can't sit still these days. As Jonathan Gold mused in A Movable Beast, it's no longer essential that chefs simply keep to their kitchen. We have chefs who pop up, chefs who make guest appearances, chefs who get in trucks and roam the streets. Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Intoxicated Cupcakes: 41 Tipsy Treats

    ​Intoxicated Cupcakes: 41 Tipsy Treats, the latest in the recent onslaught of booze-drenched cake cookbooks, certainly isn't going after any James Beard awards. But it's summer. And so it's perfectly acceptable to have a strawberry daiquiri cupcake (p. 40) followed by a piña colada cupcake ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    A Recipe from Clifford Wright: Gomser Cholera

    Clifford A. WrightGomser Cholera, a Swiss potato and cheese pie ​ Clifford Wright is a James Beard award winning author and culinary instructor at Venice Cooking School with New York Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman. He's been widely hailed as the foremost English speaking expert on Medit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Noooooooooooo! Alton Brown to End "Good Eats"

    ​One of our favorite cooking shows ever, right up there with the Galloping Gourmet when he was still a drunk, is finito. Alton Brown announced yesterday that after 249 episodes, his Food Network show Good Eats is done. (Chicago Tribune reports Brown announced it as his first post on Twitter, b ... 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

    May 10, 2011

    Last Night: The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards The Winners

    J. RitzOutstanding Chef nom Suzanne Goin and Best NYC Chef winner Gabrielle Hamilton on the green carpet outside the JBFAs. ​ We Californians have a reputation, however fictional or exaggerated, for looking on the bright side of things. So when it comes to reporting on the 2011 James Beard Fou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Sriracha Chicken, Movie Sandwiches More Fun Listening to Bourdain Talk

    -- Saveur #127, the Los Angeles Edition. (Congrats, Javier! Street food! And yes, James Oseland used to be a proofreader at LA Weekly.) [Saveur] -- Allergies explained using cookies and candy. [Boing Boing] -- 5 Questions for Walter Manzke, or the joy of immersion circulators. [Daily Dish] -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    2011 James Beard Media Award Winners

    ​It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Bourdain on Beard, Questions for Roy Choi The Online World of Cannibals

    -- Anthony Bourdain on the James Beard awards ("I would sooner attend a Renaissance Fair in Hell"). [No Reservations, via The New York Times.] -- The Great Mayonnaise Debate. [Food Republic] -- Two words: Absinthe Cake. [Food Gal] -- A cup of coffee & illegal immigration. [Los Angeles Times] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Behind The James Beard Awards: A Cookbook Judge's Journey

    J. GarbeeWeighing In With Salty Opinions​The Husband: Your James Beard books arrived, several boxes. One weighed 50 pounds. James Beard Reviewer: Ha, you're funny. TH: I'm not kidding. I had to help Jerry [our UPS guy] carry them up the stairs. JBR: Seriously? Shit. Those text messages su ... 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

    January 19, 2011

    James Beard House Brings Its "Friends of James Beard" Benefit To SoCal

    James Beard Foundation​ If you missed the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour stop in L.A. last summer, not to worry; the culinary powerhouse is headed back to Southern California, this time bringing with it a weekend full of cooking demonstrations, extravagant meals and even a few Food Network s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    [Updated] Finally, A Reason to Eat at Chipotle: Nate Appleman Will Make Your Burrito

    Food NetworkNate Appleman​It seems like Chipotle has finally figured out how to get some of us to walk through its doors. No, not by dreaming up a well-placed ad campaign. Not by being in seemingly every mall in America. Not even by serving natural meats and reducing sodium and supporting loca ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    James Beard Foundation: The L.A. Celebrity Chef Tour

    James Beard Foundation​ Chances are very few of us will ever get the opportunity to dine at the The James Beard House. Forget the fact that it's three thousand miles away in New York's Greenwich Village; even if it was in your backyard the fact is that James Beard events are typically reserve ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 5, 2010

    W Is for Brasserie

    Delphine, on Hollywood's left bank (sorta)

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    Fucking With "Fucking With Drew Barrymore”

    And more thoughts on L.A. People 2009

  • Eat+Drink

    August 31, 2006

    L.A. Simonized

    Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west

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