The James Beard Foundation

James Beard Restaurant & Chef Awards Announced: The Winners

​The James Beard Foundation announced the second round of winners, naming the Restaurant and Chef awards last night at Lincoln Center. Tom Colicchio (Craft) was named Outstanding Chef, beating out L.A.'s Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern). The award for Outstanding Restaurant went to Daniel B ... More >>

A Day With Wolfgang Puck: GMA & The James Beard Awards

Wolfgang Puck​If you're sitting at home this morning wondering what to cook for dinner and happen to have a whole chicken, a jar of mustard and a bottle of Port lying around, you might want to turn on the television sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. Wolfgang Puck will be cooking his recipe for pan ... More >>

James Beard Media & Book Awards Announced: The Winners

​The James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards. The Restaurant and Chef awards will be announced tonight. The Weekly's longtime restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Reviews award. Cook ... More >>

Plate Spinnings: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Michael Ruhlman tells us Why Sandra Lee Is Not Evil Incarnate. [HuffPost Food] -- Gael Greene gets a racy TV show (maybe). [Variety] -- The James Beard Foundation's list of 13 Essential Baking Books. ... More >>

Walter Manzke Update: Breadbar's Hatchi Series, Pebble Beach Just Be Patient

Walter Manzke, who left the downtown bistro Church & State at the end of February, is popping up at Breadbar's Hatchi series. Manzke will cook for one evening, on June 24th, which marks the 1 year anniversary of the one-chef-one-night event. "They've been asking me and asking me, and I finally said ... More >>

Q & A With José Andrés: His TV Show, What Should Be In Your Pantry & Cooking with Ferrán Adriá

José Andrés' beautiful fun-house of a hotel restaurant, The Bazaar, has been open for about a year and a half now, where the Spanish chef has been serving up cotton candy foie gras, little tin cans of King crab and raspberries, and olive oil pancakes to a crowd variously composed of hotel guests, ... More >>

Chef Alain Ducasse on French President Sarkozy, Yogurt Chocolate

Do you like really good yogurt and require at least one dose of 85% cocoa chocolate daily? According to an article that ran in last week's Women's Wear Daily, it appears Alain Ducasse considers those of us who think we can live on chocolate alone merely bonbons away from calling Morgan Spurlock abou ... More >>

Chef Nate Appleman Arrested for Weapons Possession (A Knife)

Food NetworkChef Nate Appleman, with dangerous weapon​Nate Appleman, 2009 James Beard Foundation Award Rising Star Chef winner, former The Next Iron Chef contestant, author of the marvelous A16: Food Wine cookbook, and chef at Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria in the Bowery, was arrested last Wednes ... More >>

2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated

James Beard​Twitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>

Q & A With Michael Cimarusti, Part 2: The Michelin, Bluefin Tuna & Why You Should Learn How To Cook Fish

ProvidenceChef Michael Cimarusti​Providence chef-owner Michael Cimarusti has been even busier than usual lately, between trips to the Bocuse d'Or and to Japan. Read the first part of our interview for his take on those excursions. The chef also teaches the occasional cooking classes on, you gu ... More >>

Chef Family Recipes: Jessica Goin's Favorite Meyer Lemon Tart Recipe

If Olympic figure skating hopefuls begin training as toddlers, at what age do future chefs first experiment with their peanut butter sandwich filling-to-bread ratios? For this week's Chef Family Recipes, Squid Ink spoke with Jessica Goin, sister of Suzanne Goin, who is among the semifinalists in the ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Local Author Clifford A. Wright On The Evolution of Turkey Pancake Soup

Sure, winning several James Beard awards gets you all kinds of press and praise, not to mention a lovely collection of shiny gold refrigerator-worthy medals. As Clifford A. Wright, the Venice Beach-based author of the recently released The Best Soups in the World will attest, you also get to make u ... More >>

Your Online Recipe Box: Epicurious.com A 1941 Recipe for Lobster Thermidor & Their Most Popular Recipe, Double Chocolate Layer Cake

The vast Condé Nast recipe database Epicurious.com is a phenomenal resource for both home and professional cooks, kind of like The Beatles catalog for food people. With the closing down of Gourmet Magazine (this month is the last issue), Epicurious became even more valuable, as it now functions as ... More >>

The James Beard Foundation's Invitational: Food and Cocktails Duke It Out

From 6:30 p.m. until the lights rose at 2:00 a.m. this past Monday (well, Tuesday), Squid Ink put in a full work day at The James Beard Foundation's L.A. Chef Invitational at The Foundry. As enjoyable as the evening was, good food and classic cocktails are difficult to mix. Eric Greenspan noted th ... More >>

Former Craft Chefs Matt Accarrino Catherine Schimenti Move Their Hearts To San Francisco

Matt AccarrinoSPQR: The Next Frontier​When Craft Los Angeles' opening chef de cuisine Matt Accarrino and pastry chef Catherine Schimenti departed the restaurant back in May, owner Tom Colicchio promptly replaced the dynamic agnoletti-gelato duo with Anthony Zappola and Shannon Swindle, the che ... More >>

James Beard Foundation LA Chef Invitational At The Foundry: Eat, Drink, Repeat

A fairly high percentage of L.A.'s finer dining restaurants are closed on Mondays. Next Monday that's probably a good thing, as not a few of them will be at The Foundry on Melrose. Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry, will be hosting The James Beard Foundation L.A. Chef Invitational, a 5-cours ... More >>

Top Chef Renewed for Seventh Season: Casting Calls in Los Angeles and Other Cities

Bravo announced yesterday that Top Chef will be renewed for a seventh season. You didn't really think that Tom and Padma would be packing their knives any time soon, did you? The Emmy and James Beard Award-winning show is the No. 1 rated food show on cable. Casting calls for season 7 will be held ar ... More >>

Just Published: Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking A Recipe For Pumpkin Soup

PaulaWolfert.comClay Pot Cooking​Next week, Paula Wolfert's new cookbook, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, her 10th, officially hits the bookshelves. Wolfert--who lives, cooks, writes and tweets (@Soumak) in Sonoma, California--has received numerous awards and last year, the James Beard Foundat ... More >>

Chef Robert Danhi Leads Culinary Tours of Little Saigon

Emma CourtlandA labyrinth of foreign labels​Los Angeles' ethnic neighborhoods often feel impenetrable. Navigating the seas of strip malls signed by foreign characters, and market mounds of various exotic herbs all labeled "peppermint," is a disconcerting task for even the most adventurous flav ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Pickling Cukes, Corn, Concords, and How to Keep Them

The kitchen has become a preservation station these past few weeks, requiring a little bit of especially selective shopping at the farmers market. The first rule of preserving is to use unblemished, unspoiled, and practically perfect produce. Any suggestion of spoilage or bruising could mean a lot ... More >>

Real Harmony is Free Cocktails: Shochu Tasting at Gonpachi

James Key Lim and his wife, Joanne Woo Lim, are the makers of Haamonii Ultra-premium Shochu, and they're all about sharing. The Lims began to pour their shochu, a distilled clear spirit, for others first--quite literally. They started hosting complimentary tastings of Haamonii at restaurants in San ... More >>

Food's Big Night Out: Not Such a Big Night for Los Angeles at the James Beard Awards

Jessica RitzThe scene at Avery Fisher Hall, with Ted Allen in the mix. The James Beard Foundation Awards is the Big Night Out for an industry that's all about nights out. Cooks, writers, restaurateurs, sommeliers, and others in the service of making great food and interpreting it for a hungry public ... More >>

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Suzpree Sneak Peek: Char Sui Tacos and Oxtail Dumplings -- Advance Bites of Suzanne Tracht and Preech Narkthong's Evolving New Project Unveiled Tonight at Jar

Margy RochlinIn Development: Suzpree's eggplant saladEverytime Jar chef/owner Suzanne Tracht and her chef de cuisine Preech Narkthong visit Narkthong's hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, they return with ideas for new dishes, antique silk purses and fairly crazy-sounding tales of two massages a day and ... More >>

Yuca's Wins 2009 Taco Madness Tourney

Los Feliz favorite Yuca's, the taco stand with a James Beard Award, came out the winner in this weekend's online voting in the hotly contested 2009 Taco Madness tournament, with LA taco stands competing against each other in NCAA March Madness-style brackets. Yuca's made it to the finals against San ... More >>

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