Here are the 2022 Media Award Nominees
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Today, we announce the 2022 Media Award Nominees in advance of the returning James Beard Awards® ceremonies presented by Capital One. During a live ceremony at Pier 57 within Hudson River Park in New York City, we released the full list of nominees covering outstanding achievements in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism. This is the first time in the Foundation’s history that an event was held dedicated to the Media Award Nominee announcement. Additionally, the Emerging Category, first introduced in the Journalism Awards program, will expand to include Broadcast and Book. The winners will be announced at the Media Awards ceremony in Chicago on the campus of Columbia College Chicago on Saturday, June 11, hosted by award-winning journalist, author, and host and executive producer of the new series Take Out on HBO Max, Lisa Ling.
Now, on to the nominees!
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2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominees
Cookbooks and other non-fiction food- or beverage-related books that were published in English in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021 were eligible to enter the 2022 James Beard Book Awards
Baking and Desserts
Cheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking
Cheryl Day
(Artisan Books)
Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries
Kristina Cho
(Harper Horizon)
Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution
Roxana Jullapat
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Beverage with Recipes
Death & Co Welcome Home: A Cocktail Recipe Book
Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan with Devon Tarby and Tyson Buhler
(Penguin Random House)
The Japanese Art of the Cocktail
Masahiro Urushido and Michael Anstendig
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Way of the Cocktail: Japanese Traditions, Techniques, and Recipes
Julia Momosé with Emma Janzen
(Penguin Random House)
Beverage without Recipes
Foot Trodden: Portugal and the Wines that Time Forgot
Simon J. Woolf and Ryan Opaz
(Interlink Books)
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
Mallory O'Meara
(Hanover Square Press)
The Noble Rot Book: Wine from Another Galaxy
Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew
(Quadrille)
General
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories
Nigella Lawson
(Ecco)
Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave)
David Chang and Priya Krishna
(Clarkson Potter)
Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health
Gregory Gourdet with JJ Goode
(Harper Wave)
International
Falastin: A Cookbook
Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley
(Ten Speed Press)
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean
Hawa Hassan with Julia Turshen
(Ten Speed Press)
Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus
Yasmin Khan
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Reference, History, and Scholarship
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Adrian Miller
(University of North Carolina Press)
The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained + More Than 100 Essential Recipes
Nik Sharma
(Chronicle Books)
Koji Alchemy: Rediscovering the Magic of Mold-Based Fermentation
Rich Shih and Jeremy Umansky
(Chelsea Green Publishing)
Restaurant and Professional
Mister Jiu's in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food
Brandon Jew and Tienlon Ho
(Ten Speed Press)
Modernist Pizza
Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya
(The Cooking Lab)
Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy's Greatest Food, with Recipes
Missy Robbins and Talia Baiocchi
(Ten Speed Press)
Single Subject
Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes
Joe Yonan
(Ten Speed Press)
Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way with Grains
Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg
(Artisan Books)
The Hog Book: A Chef's Guide to Hunting, Butchering and Cooking Wild Pigs
Jesse Griffiths
(Wild Hog Project)
U.S. Foodways
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Bryant Terry
(4 Color Books)
Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou
Melissa M. Martin
(Artisan Books)
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
Marcus Samuelsson with Osayi Endolyn
(Voracious Books)
Vegetable-Focused Cooking
The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma's Kitchen
Joanne Lee Molinaro
(Avery)
To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories from the Heart
Hetty McKinnon
(Prestel Publishing)
Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes
Bryant Terry
(Ten Speed Press)
Visuals
monk: Light and Shadow on the Philosopher's Path
Yuka Yanazume and Julia Hasting
(Phaidon)
Sushi Shokunin: Japan's Culinary Masters
Andrea Fazzari
(Assouline)
Take One Fish: The New School of Scale-to-Tail Cooking and Eating
Rob Palmer and Daniel New
(Hardie Grant)
Writing
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain
(Liveright)
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
(Princeton University Press)
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
John Birdsall
(W.W. Norton & Company)
2022 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Award Nominees
The Broadcast Media Awards are open to all works in English from digital and terrestrial media—social media, radio, television broadcasts, podcasts, documentaries, online sites—covering food and beverage topics appearing widely for the first time in the United States in 2020 and 2021.
Documentary/Docuseries Visual Media
Gather
Airs on: Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and Vimeo
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Airs on: Netflix
The Hungriest State
Airs on: Mississippi State University Television / Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Instructional Visual Media
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television
Airs on: American Public Television
Food Network Kitchen - Everything You Need to Know About Collard Greens
Airs on: Food Network Kitchen
The Wild Harvest with Alan Bergo
Airs on: Vimeo
Reality or Competition Visual Media
School of Chocolate - Flying Chocolate
Airs on: Netflix
SPARKLERS
Airs on: SOMM TV
Top Chef Family Style - Truffles, Caviar & Prawns -- Oh My!
Airs on: Peacock
Commercial/Sponsored Visual Media
Justin V. Barocas, Evan Hayes, and Dawn Porter
Uber Eats Presents: On the Rise with Marcus Samuelsson
Airs on: Eater, YouTube, Instagram
Sean O'Connor, Whitney Hassett, Kyle J. Glenn
I Hire Punks
Airs on: INFRA and Story Gorge outreach materials, website, and social media
Mando Rayo, Dennis Burnett
Made Right Here Road Trip
Airs on: YouTube
Visual Media—Short Form
Handmade - How 60,000 Metric Tons of Salt Are Harvested from One of the World’s Saltiest Lakes
Airs on: Eater
TrueSouth - Lake Village
Airs on: ESPN / SEC Network
Eat This with Yara - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Farm Work
Airs on: AJ+
Visual Media—Long Form
EatUp! New York
Airs on: ABC7 New York
Somebody Feed Phil -Chicago
Airs on: Netflix
Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition
Airs on: Hulu
Social Media Account
KJ Kearney
BlackFoodFridays
Airs on: TikTok and Instagram
Alexis Nikole Nelson
BlackForager
Airs on: TikTok and Instagram
Aleya Zenieris
Buzzfeed Tasty
Airs on: TikTok and Instagram
Audio Programming
Dish City - How American Chinese Food Became Delivery Food
Airs on: WAMU and various podcast platforms
Gastropod - Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal
Airs on: Vox Media Podcast Network and various podcast platforms
Good Food - 'We Are Each Other's Harvest': African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
Airs on: KCRW and various podcast platforms
Audio Reporting
Mackenzie Martin
A People's History of Kansas City - Kansas City's Barbecue King
Airs on: KCUR and various podcast platforms
Lisa H Morehouse
California Foodways - Home Baked: One Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS Crisis; Owls, Swallows, and Bluebirds: Farmers’ Secret Allies
Airs on: KQED and various podcast platforms
Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O’Hara
The Sporkful - A Reckoning At Bon Appétit; Update: Inside The Turmoil At Bon Appétit"
Airs on: Various podcast platforms
2022 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award Nominees
Work published—or self-published—in 2020 and 2021 in any medium are eligible for entry. Entries must be in English and cover food- or drink-related topics. Entries in other languages may be submitted if an English translation is also provided.
Columns and Newsletters
Tasting Home: “Travels with Papa”; “ Following the Thread”; “In Her Footsteps”
Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein
Food & Wine
Tex-Mexplainer: “Nixtamalization Is the 3,500-Year-Old Secret to Great Tortillas”; “Live a Little and Try Crunching on Chapulines, or Roasted Grasshoppers”; “Forget Everything You Think You Know About Mole”
José R. Ralat
Texas Monthly
Taste Matters: “Really, Is Everyone a Critic?”; “Stop Calling Chinese Food Cheap. It Can Be Exceptional at Every Price.”; “The Ingredients May Be New. The Quest For Deliciousness Is Eternal.”
Mahira Rivers
Resy
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award
“In Grand Central Market, a Beloved Chef Begins a New Chapter”; “Jumpstart Your Day at this Taiwanese Breakfast Pop-up in Chinatown”; “This Atwater Village Sushi Bar is what L.A. Fine Dining is all About”
Bill Addison
Los Angeles Times
“’Constant Evolution’”; “Restaurant Debuts as one of the Best in the Midwest”; “Pizzas Out of this World”
Louisa Chu
Chicago Tribune
“The Bay Area is Having a Love Affair with Smashburgers. This is the One You'll Want to Eat Again and Again”; “Impossible’s New Vegan Nuggets Taste Better than McNuggets. Sadly, that’s not Saying Much”; “S.F. Restaurant’s $72 Fried Rice Was a Runaway Hit. It Was Also the Chef's Nightmare”
Soleil Ho
San Francisco Chronicle
Dining and Travel
“Right Around the Corner”
Francis Lam
Condé Nast Traveler
“Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palate”
Ligaya Mishan
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
“The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia”
José R. Ralat
Texas Monthly
Feature Reporting
“Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing”
Ahmed Ali Akbar
Eater
“Tek Cyear uh de Root, Part One — The Schützenfest, Black Endurance, and Beer Culture in Old South Charleston”; “Tek Cyear uh de Root, Part Two — The Deliberate Reconstruction of the Charleston Schützenfest”; “Tek Cyear uh de Root, Part Three — The Lost Potential of Charleston Beer”
Jamaal Lemon
Good Beer Hunting
“Raising Cane”
Shane Mitchell
The Bitter Southerner
Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
The Bitter Southerner
The New Yorker
The Washington Post
Foodways
“‘We’re Reclaiming Beer Because It’s Ours’”
James Bennett II
Eater
“The American Dream in the Back of a Sunoco”
Trisha Gopal
Eater
“In the Arctic, Reindeer Are Sustenance and a Sacred Presence”
Ligaya Mishan
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Health and Wellness
“Cultivating Better Health”
Michael Behar
EatingWell
“Diet-Related Diseases Pose a Major Risk for Covid-19. But the U.S. Overlooks Them.”
Helena Bottemiller Evich
POLITICO
“Deeply Rooted: An Endocrine Web Special Report on Race and Diabetes”
Adriana Velez
Endocrine Web
Home Cooking
“The Way of Clay”
Mary-Frances Heck
Food & Wine
“For Garlic Powder, a Working Seasoning Finally Gets its Turn in the Spice Limelight”
Ben Mims
Los Angeles Times
“The Secret Society of Marmalade Makers”
Leslie Pariseau
TASTE
Innovative Storytelling
“Arturo and the Rancho Zen of Washing Dishes”
Javier Cabral
Pop-Up Magazine
“How Black Foragers Find Freedom in the Natural World”
Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee, Adraint Bereal, and Wulf Bradley
The New York Times
“A Feast for Lost Souls”
Annelise Jolley and Zahara Gómez Lucini
The Atavist Magazine
Investigative Reporting
“NYC Food Delivery Workers Band to Demand Better Treatment. Will New York Listen to Los Deliveristas Unidos?”; “Food Delivery Workers Toiling Through Historic Flooding Call Skimpy Wages and Tips ‘A Cruel Joke’”; “New York City Passes Landmark New Protections for Food Delivery Workers”
Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Josefa Velasquez
THE CITY
“Palestine and the West Bank Agricultural Struggle”
Marianne Dhenin
Life & Thyme
“Revolt of the Delivery Workers”
Josh Dzieza
New York Magazine; The Verge
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
“‘Too Much to Lose.’ Why a Miami Man Moved into a Backyard Tent During Coronavirus Crisis”; “Salt Bae’s Restaurant Called Cops on Customer who Wouldn’t Pay for Gold-Wrapped Steaks”; “How to Eat Like a Local in Miami: A Local's Guide to Dining in the 305”
Carlos Frías
Miami Herald
“Innovation and the Incinerated Tongue: Notes on Hot Chicken, Race, and Culinary Crossover”; “Two Friends Talk about Black, White, and The Grey: On Cooking and Collaboration Across the Color Line”; “Pimento-cracy”
Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee
The Counter; Oxford American
“Growing Up on Los Angeles’s Black Barbecue”; “Downtown LA’s Once-Unstoppable Restaurant Scene Now Faces an Uncertain Future”; “Tonight’s Dinner Should Be Fried Chicken From an LA Grocery Store”
Mona Holmes
Eater LA
MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
“The Flavors of My Grief”
Yasmin Khan
Vogue
“Right Around the Corner”
Francis Lam
Condé Nast Traveler
“Life Was Not a Peach”
Hannah Selinger
Eater
Personal Essay, Long Form
“It's Time to Decolonize Wine”
Miguel de Leon
Punch
“All the Food You Can Eat and Only the Family You Can Stand”
Jackie Summers
Epicurious
“The Creature Comfort of Aunt Jemima”
Adia Victoria
The Bitter Southerner
Personal Essay, Short Form
“How It Feels to Close Your Restaurant for Good”
Kiki Aranita
Food & Wine
“Caribou Bones and Burgundy”
Elaine Chukan Brown
Wine & Spirits
“The Dangers of Bartending While Asian”
Kaylee Hammonds
Food & Wine
Profile
“Chef José Andrés Embraces the Chaos”
Jane Black
HuffPost Highline
“Patsy Young — American Brewer, Fugitive From Slavery”
Theresa McCulla
Good Beer Hunting
“The Man Who Sees a Future Where Indigenous Foods Are as Ubiquitous as Burgers”
Kate Nelson
Esquire
Follow us on Twitter on Saturday, June 11, when we announce the winners of the book, broadcast, and journalism awards at the Media Awards in Chicago.
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