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James Beard Foundation
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The James Beard Foundation Awards shine a spotlight on the best and brightest talent in the food and beverage industry.
“The Oscars of the food world.”
–Time magazine
Covering all aspects of the industry—from chefs and restaurateurs to cookbook authors and food journalists to restaurant designers and architects and more—the Beard Awards are the highest honor for food and beverage professionals working in North America. The awards are presented each spring at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Nominees and winners are fêted at a weekend of events in New York City that has become the social and gastronomic highlight of the year.
“My Beard Awards are a consecration
that validates all my years in the trade.”
–Jacques Pépin
The awards were established by the James Beard Foundation in 1990 through the merging of the two most prominent culinary awards in North America at the time: The R.T. French Tastemaker Cookbook Awards and Cook’s Magazine and Restaurant Business’s Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. For the first iteration, the James Beard Foundation in 1991 expanded the program to include Restaurant and Chef Awards; in 1992 the James Beard Foundation established the Journalism Awards; in 1993 the Electronic Media (now Broadcast Media) Awards were introduced; and in 1995 the first Restaurant Design (now Design and Graphic) Awards were presented.
“The Beard Awards provide an inspiration for young chefs.”
–Gray Kunz
In 2007 the Foundation grouped the Journalism and Broadcast Media Awards together into one ceremony called the James Beard Foundation Media Awards. These awards are announced a day or two prior to the awards gala at Lincoln center. In 2008, the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America were also pulled out of the main awards gala and announced at a separate ceremony.
In addition to the information contained on www.jamesbeard.org, specific event and related information for the James Beard Foundation Awards can be found at www.jbfawards.com.
