2011 James Beard Award Winners Announced
may 10, 2011 06:31 pm
Three alt-weekly food writers — and one alt-weekly videographer — were named winners of the
2011 James Beard Foundation Awards on Friday night.
Tim Carman's work with Washington City Paper was recognized as the best Food-Related Column and Commentary, beating out scribes for
Grist and the
Wall Street Journal.
Michael Gebert and Julia Thiel of the
Chicago Reader beat out worm-eater Andrew Zimmern in the Multimedia Food Feature category for their video series,
Key Ingredient, in which chefs are challenged to come up with a recipe using an obscure ingredient.
And no list of food journalism award winners would be complete without a nod to the
L.A. Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who won the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his guide to 99 essential Los Angeles restaurants, "
A Moveable Beast."
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