Follow the JBF Awards Online!
Can’t make it to the JBF Awards? We have a number of ways for you to attend virtually! To follow tonight’s Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards, park yourself in front of @beardfoundation on Twitter starting at 7:00 P.M. You’ll find out the winners as they’re announced, and a few recaps will be posted here on Delights & Prejudices as well. On Monday night you can tune into our live-stream of the Awards at Lincoln Center by going to jamesbeard.org/awardslive starting at 6:00 P.M. We’re also going to be live-blogging right here on Delights & Prejudices, and have assembled an elite team of guest bloggers to help us out, including Chris Stang and Andrew Steinthal of Immaculate Infatuation; Fiona Tang and Amy Cao of Foodspotting; Megan Krigbaum, associate wine editor of Food & Wine; photographer Michael Harlan Turkell, photo editor of Edible Brooklyn/Manhattan
On the Menu: May 8 through May 14
Here's what's happening at the Beard House next week…
Wednesday, May 11
Beard on Books: The Jewish Culinary Diaspora
At this special installment of Beard on Books, JBF Award–winning author Joan Nathan will discuss her most recent book, Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France, and the regional variation in Jewish cooking with Israeli food editor Janna Gur, author of The Book of New Israeli Food, and JBF vice president Mitchell Davis, author of The Mensch Chef.
Thursday, May 12
La Sicilia
Interview with Menton's Barbara Lynch
Opening a luxe restaurant in a former industrial zone that’s experiencing a gradual rebirth sounds like a hazardous venture, but Boston chef and restaurateur Barbara Lynch beat the odds last year with her latest project, Menton. With chef Colin Lynch (no relation) manning the kitchen, the establishment earned a spot on many 2010 “Best New Restaurant” lists, and it’s up for another accolade at the JBF Awards on May 9. Read on for our interview with Barbara Lynch about Menton's risks and rewards.
JBF: Menton is named after a small French village that’s very close to the Italian border. How is that specific place expressed in the food?
BL: Many of my restaurants are influenced by my sense of nostalgia for places I've been to. Menton is one of them. It’s a beautiful place and very French, but it shares a border with Italy so you can't help but feel that Italian soul.
News Feed: May 5, 2011
Recipes to help you celebrate Cinco de Mayo. [NYT]
Has the LA food truck scene gone too mainstream? [LAT]
How to crack ice for cocktails. [SE]
Having a Smoke: JBF Vice President Mitchell Davis to Judge Barbecue Contest on the Food Network
The Food Network's Best in Smoke judges (clockwise from top):
chef and host Bryan Caswell, JBF vice president Mitchell Davis,
author Amy Mills Tunnicliff, and chef Tim Love
Eye Candy: A Frank Makes His Mark at JBF LTD
Frank Castronovo of Frankies Spuntino and Prime Meats signs one of the JBF LTD tables at the end of his event, which also featured his partner, Frank Falcinelli, and Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Animal and Son of a Gun in Los Angeles.
See more photos of the dinner here.
Awards Watch: Readers’ Choice, TV Food Personality/Host
News Feed: May 4, 2011
A Mother's Day menu for breakfast in bed. [Saveur]
Counterfeit Emmentaler tracked down by Swiss experts. [Globe and Mail]
Today is National Orange Juice Day. [Eatocracy/CNN]
Christina Tosi crosses borders at Milk Bar. [NYT]
What exactly is cellulose, and why is it in my ice cream? [WSJ]
The Bookshelf: Stephen Fried's Delicious Southwest "Tour de Fred Harvey"
From the late 1800s through the 1950s, travelers were introduced to the culinary and cultural joys of the West by Fred Harvey, the founding father of the American hospitality industry and gastronomic culture. His revolutionary family business—running restaurants and hotels between Chicago and California along the Santa Fe railroad and later Route 66, including the historic inns still in use at the Grand Canyon and in Santa Fe—changed the way we eat, drink, travel, even the way we see our country.
Stephen Fried, author of Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the West—One Meal at a Time (named one of the top ten books of the 2010 by the Wall Street Journal and just out in paperback), offers a “Tour de Fred” of the remaining, and still wonderful, Harvey Houses.
Awards Watch: Readers' Choice, Best New Restaurant
To get an early start on the upcoming festivities, we're bringing back our Readers' Choice Awards, in which our audience gets to cast votes for their favorite JBF nominees. It's simple: we set up a snazzy poll and you make your pick.
Our first category is Best New Restaurant. This year's BNR noms are especially impressive, and likely backed by passionate legions of fans on their home turf, so we're expecting this contest to be pretty intense.
So size up the contenders below and vote! We'll close this poll at noon tomorrow, then launch another round in the afternoon.
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Note: these results have absolutely no bearing on who will win a bona fide Beard Award. (You can read about the Awards nomination and voting procedure
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