Since 1990, the association sponsored conferences in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, Providence, Baltimore, Dallas, and Seattle.
Both the James Beard Foundation and International Association of Culinary Professionals have nominated this book as 2005's best technical or reference book.
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In 2008, the International Association of Culinary Professionals gave an award for best food styling and photography to Good Spirits, by A.J. Rathbun.
Goldman's first book known as Melons for the Passionate Grower (Artisan, 2002), won an American Horticultural Society 2003 Annual Book Award, and was nominated for several other awards, including the Garden Writers Association of America 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement, various Bookbinder's Awards for design and production, A James Beard Foundation Award (Reference Books category) and the International Association of Culinary Professionals award for Best Design.