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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 imbalance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Beard Foundation Award For Excellence Medallion
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Drew Nieporent
Drew Nieporent is an American restaurateur based in New York City. He owns Myriad Restaurant Group, Nobu and Nobu London, which have earned him two Michelin stars. Career Nieporent’s first restaurant, Montrachet opened in Tribeca in 1985. At the time, it earned three stars from ''The New York Times''. In a 2004 ''New York Times'' review, Amanda Hesser gave Montrachet two stars and commented that "much of the cooking is textbook-correct, yet you will not be awed", while praising the wine list. In 2008, Montrachet reopened as Corton, with chef-partner Paul Liebrandt. ''The New York Times'' awarded Corton three stars, and the restaurant also received two Michelin stars. In 1994, Nieporent co-founded Nobu with Robert De Niro and Nobu Matsuhisa. Nobu NYC, Next Door Nobu, and Nobu Fifty Seven each received three stars from ''The New York Times''. The James Beard Foundation The James Beard Foundation is an American non-profit culinary arts organization based in New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Faison
George W. Faison (born December 21, 1945) is an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and theater producer, and winner of a 1975 Tony, a Drama Desk Award, and a 1991 nominee for the Emmy Award for choreography. He was a featured dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founder of the George Faison Universal Dance Experience, and co-founder/producing artistic director of the Faison Firehouse Theater. Early life Faison was born December 21, 1945, in Washington, D.C., and attended Dunbar High School. As a student he performed with the American Light Opera Company in ''Show Boat'' and studied with the Jones-Haywood Capitol Ballet and Carolyn Tate of Howard University, where he matriculated in 1964. While at Howard, Faison had initially planned to pursue dentistry. But while there, he worked with director Owen Dodson and saw a production of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. This helped him make the decision to move to New York City and become a dancer. In New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecily Brownstone
Cecily Brownstone (18 April 1909 – 30 August 2005) was a Canadian-born American food writer, who wrote several cookbooks and articles about food over a period of 39 years. She was the Associated Press Food Editor from 1947 to 1986—for thirty-nine years. During that time she was the most widely published of syndicated food writers. The five recipe columns and two food features she wrote for the Associated Press each week appeared in papers all over the United States, in addition to a number of other countries. Brownstone's personal papers and cookbook collection is the unique expression of her personal interest in and encyclopedic knowledge of American culinary history and cookbooks, and her career in the food field. Early life Brownstone was born in Plum Coulee, Manitoba, in 1909, growing up in Winnipeg, the fourth of five sisters. She attended the University of Manitoba and came to New York City to pursue her studies and to work. She lived in Greenwich Village, approp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Anderson (cookbook Author)
Helen Jean Anderson (October 12, 1929 – January 24, 2023) was an American cookbook author and editor. Life and work Anderson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father was a botany professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh at the time of her birth, though he later moved to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Anderson had a BS in food and nutrition from Cornell University and a MS in journalism degree from Columbia University. She began her journalistic career at '' The Raleigh Times'', after receiving her undergraduate degree, and started at ''Ladies' Home Journal'' as a graduate student. Anderson helped organize the James Beard Journalism Awards and for two years, co-chaired that committee. Though best known for her articles in ''Bon Appétit'', ''Food & Wine'', ''Gourmet'', '' More'', '' Travel + Leisure'' and other magazines, Anderson served as assistant food editor, then managing editor of ''The Ladies’ Home Journal'', as contributing edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Sonoma
Williams Sonoma is an American retailer of cookware, appliances, and home furnishings. It is owned by Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and was founded by Chuck Williams (author), Charles E. (Chuck) Williams in 1956. History In 1947, Chuck Williams settled in Sonoma, California, and opened his first shop as a hardware store. In 1953, Williams took his first trip to France, where he quickly fell in love with French kitchenware such as copper cookware, and is quoted as saying, "I knew this was something that wasn't found in America, but thought people would want." Shortly after returning home, he formulated a plan to import French cooking and serving equipment into America and eventually converted his store into a cookware shop in 1956. Thus, Williams Sonoma was founded, selling professional and restaurant-quality kitchenware for home use, leading to founder Chuck Williams being recognized as one of the titans of the American food revolution. After customer requests, Williams relocated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Williams (author)
Charles Edward Williams (October 2, 1915 – December 5, 2015) was the American founder of Williams Sonoma and author and editor of more than 100 books on the subject of cooking. Williams is credited for playing a major role in introducing French cookware into American kitchens through his retail and mail-order business. He became a centenarian in October 2015 and died two months later on December 5, 2015, in San Francisco, California. Early life Born in 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida, Williams learned to cook from his maternal grandmother, who had owned a restaurant in Lima, Ohio. When the Great Depression hit, his father's auto repair business failed, and the family moved to southern California. His father fared no better there and soon abandoned his wife, son, and daughter. Eventually, Williams found work on a date farm near Palm Springs, Sniff's Date Gardens in Indio. The couple who owned it, Dana and Abagail Sniff, took him in and drove him to high school in the mornings whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Sontheimer
Carl G. Sontheimer (1914 – 23 March 1998) was an American inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor. Sontheimer was born in New York City but raised in France. He returned to the U.S. to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received an engineering degree. Before developing the food processor in the early 1970s, he had a career that included work at RCA and Maguire Industries. He invented a number of other devices, including a microwave-based direction finder used during NASA's moon program. He founded and sold two electronics companies, one became Trak Electronics. Sontheimer sold his stake in Trak and started Anzac Electronics to develop and manufacture microwave systems. He sold Anzac by 1966, but continued as a consultant for three years. His food processor was based on a commercial one produced by a major French restaurant supplier, the Robot-Coupe invented by Pierre Verdon. Sontheimer refined and impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert M
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael Greene
Gael Greene (December 22, 1933 – November 1, 2022) was an American restaurant critic, author, and novelist. She became '' New York'' magazine's restaurant critic in fall 1968, at a time when most New Yorkers were unsophisticated about food and there were few chefs anyone knew by name, and for four decades both documented and inspired the city's and America's growing obsession with food. She was a pioneering "foodie." Life and career Greene was born in Detroit, where her father owned a clothing store, and graduated from Central High School in 1951, then from the University of Michigan. She said that her passion for food was awakened by a year abroad in Paris while she was an undergraduate. She worked as an investigative reporter for UPI then the ''New York Post'', for example pretending to be single and pregnant for an investigation of baby trafficking, and was made a food writer after her editor liked an article she wrote about chef Henri Soulé. Greene became food reporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Batterberry
Michael Carver Batterberry (April 8, 1932 – July 28, 2010) was an American food writer who founded and edited ''Food & Wine'' and '' Food Arts'' together with his wife, Ariane. Biography Batterberry was born on April 8, 1932, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, his American parents having relocated there while his father was working for Procter & Gamble. He relocated to the United States with his family upon the outbreak of World War II. Batterberry attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, but dropped out to move to Venezuela with his family, where his father was establishing P&G's presence in Latin America. Batterberry worked as a painter and interior designer in Venezuela and Rome. Fox, Margalit"Michael Batterberry, Influential Food Editor, Dies at 78" ''The New York Times'', July 29, 2010. Accessed July 30, 2010. After his return to the U.S. in the 1950s, Batterberry worked as a freelance food writer. He married writer Ariane Ruskin, and the two of them were arts edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Wells
Patricia Wells (born 5 November 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a cookbook author and teacher. Biography She divides her time between Paris and Provence. She is the author of numerous food-related books. Her book ''Patricia Wells at Home in Provence'' (1996) won the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. Wells is the only American and the only woman to be a restaurant critic for a major French publication, ''L'Express'' (1988–1991). She was the restaurant critic for the ''International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' starting in 1967, but its ...'' from 1980 until 2007. Books *''The Food Lover's Guide to Paris'' (1984) *''The Food Lover's Guide to France'' (1987) *''Bistro Cooking'' (1989) *''Simply French'' (1991) *''Patricia Wells' Trattoria'' (1993) *''Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
