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The James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of the 2019 media awards during a celebration dinner on 26 April in New York City.
The nation’s top food authors, broadcast producers and hosts, and journalists were all honoured during an exclusive celebration dinner, hosted by Tyra Banks, at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City.
The awards recognise the biggest talents in the food media industry. Among the awards, "Outstanding personality" was won by Harlem chef Marcus Samuelsson and Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat won best television program on location. Posthumous awards were also given to The Los Angeles Times’s legendary Jonathan Gold (for the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award) and Chef Fatima Ali (for Personal Essay, Short Form.). The late Anthony Bourdain was also remembered with his CNN show "Parts Unknown" team winning the visual and technical excellence award.
All the "Restaurant and Chef award winners" will be revealed at the James Beard Awards Gala on Monday, May 6, 2019, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Below is a full list of winners from the night.
2019 James Beard Foundation Media Awards Winners
2019 James Beard Foundation Book Awards
American
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day JJ Johnson and Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers
(Flatiron Books)
Baking and Desserts
SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East
Greg Malouf and Lucy Malouf
(Hardie Grant Books)
Beverage
Wine Folly: Magnum Edition
Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack
(Avery)
General
Milk Street: Tuesday Nights
Christopher Kimball
(Little, Brown and Company)
Health and Special Diets
Eat a Little Better
Sam Kass
(Clarkson Potter)
International
Feast: Food of the Islamic World
Anissa Helou
(Ecco)
Photography
Tokyo New Wave
Andrea Fazzari
(Ten Speed Press)
Reference, History, and Scholarship
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry
Anna Zeide
(University of California Press)
Restaurant and Professional
Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong
Matt Abergel
(Phaidon Press)
Single Subject
Goat: Cooking and Eating
James Whetlor
(Quadrille Publishing)
Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Saladish
Ilene Rosen
(Artisan Books)
Writing
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
Edward Lee
(Artisan Books)
Book of the Year
Cocktail Codex
Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, with Devon Tarby
(Ten Speed Press)
Cookbook Hall of Fame
Jessica B. Harris
2019 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards
Documentary
Modified
Airs on: Film festivals and Vimeo
Online Video, Fixed Location and/or Instructional
MasterClass – Dominique Ansel Teaches French Pastry Fundamentals
Airs on: MasterClass
Online Video, on Location
First We Feast’s Food Skills – Mozzarella Kings of New York
Airs on: YouTube
Outstanding Personality
Marcus Samuelsson
No Passport Required
Airs on: PBS
Outstanding Reporting
Deep Dive and Food for Thought, 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
Reporter: David Chang
Airs on: NBC, NBCSN
Podcast
Copper & Heat – Be a Girl
Airs on: Copper & Heat, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher
Radio Show
The Food Chain – Raw Grief and Widowed
Airs on: BBC World Service
Special (on TV or Online)
Spencer’s BIG Holiday
Airs on: Gusto
Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location
Pati’s Mexican Table – Tijuana: Stories from the Border
Airs on: WETA Washington; Distributed Nationally by American Public Television
Television Program, on Location
Salt Fat Acid Heat – Salt
Airs on: Netflix
Visual and Technical Excellence
Anthony Bourdain: Explore Parts Unknown
Sarah Hagey, August Thurmer, and Kate Kunath
Airs on: CNN, Explore Parts Unknown, Roads & Kingdoms
2019 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards
Columns
What We Talk About When We Talk About American Food: “The Pickled Cucumbers That Survived the 1980s AIDS Epidemic”; “A Second Look at the Tuna Sandwich’s All-American History”; and “Freedom and Borscht for Ukrainian-Jewish Émigrés”
Mari Uyehara
Taste
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review
Award Counter Intelligence: “The Hearth & Hound, April Bloomfield’s New Los Angeles Restaurant, Is Nothing Like a Gastropub”; “There’s Crocodile and Hog Stomach, but Jonathan Gold Is All About the Crusty Rice at Nature Pagoda”; and “At Middle Eastern Restaurants, It All Starts with Hummus. Jonathan Gold says Bavel’s Is Magnificent”
Jonathan Gold
Los Angeles Times
Dining and Travel
“Many Chinas, Many Tables”
Jonathan Kauffman and Team
San Francisco Chronicle
Feature Reporting
“A Kingdom from Dust”
Mark Arax
The California Sunday Magazine
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
New York Magazine
Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, Maggie Bullock, and the Staff of New York Magazine
Foodways
“A Hunger for Tomatoes” Shane Mitchell
The Bitter Southerner
Health and Wellness
“Clean Label’s Dirty Little Secret”
Nadia Berenstein
The New Food Economy
Home Cooking
“The Subtle Thrills of Cold Chicken Salad”
Cathy Erway
Taste
Innovative Storytelling
“In Search of Water-Boiled Fish”
Angie Wang
Eater
Investigative Reporting
“A Killing Season”
Boyce Upholt
The New Republic
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“Yes Indeed, Lord: Queen’s Cuisine, Where Everything Comes from the Heart”; “Top 10 New Orleans Restaurants for 2019”; and “Sexual Harassment Allegations Preceded Sucré Co-Founder Tariq Hanna’s Departure”
Brett Anderson
Nola.com | The Times-Picayune
M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
“What Is Northern Food?”
Steve Hoffman
Artful Living
Personal Essay, Long Form
“I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter”
Geraldine DeRuiter
Everywhereist.com
Personal Essay, Short Form
“I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This Is What I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left”
Fatima Ali
Bon Appétit
Profile
“The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler”
Michael Adno
The Bitter Southerner
Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages
“‘Welch’s Grape Jelly with Alcohol’: How Trump’s Horrific Wine Became the Ultimate Metaphor for His Presidency”
Corby Kummer
Vanity Fair
Publication of the Year
The New York Times
