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Tony Messina
Tony Messina is a Boston area chef who won the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in the Northeast. The East Boston native was the executive chef and partner at Ken Oringer’s restaurant Uni., Messina was a semifinalist in 2017 and a nominee in 2018 in the same category. He finally won in 2019. He was valedictorian of his class at the Cambridge Culinary School. In 2021, he moved to Los Angeles. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Beard Foundation Award
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media awards are presented at a dinner in New York City; the chef and restaurant awards were also presented in New York until 2015, when the foundation's annual gala moved to Chicago. Chicago will continue to host the Awards until 2027. History The awards were established in 1990, when the foundation expanded its chef awards and combined them with '' Cook's'' Magazine's Who's Who of American Cooking and French's Food and Beverage Book Awards. In addition to the chef, restaurant, and book awards, journalism awards were added in 1993, which expanded to broadcast media in 1994, and restaurant design awards were first given in 1995. In 2018, the James Beard Foundation changed the award's rules to be more inclusive, to fight race and gender imbalances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
