In addition, the Angeleno magazine has named it the finest in Los Angeles, and it has been chosen to be the House Purveyor for the James Beard Foundation.
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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.
Nischan serves on the boards of the Amazon Conservation Team, the James Beard Foundation and Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.
Both the James Beard Foundation and International Association of Culinary Professionals have nominated this book as 2005's best technical or reference book.
In 1996 Carmellini’s career shifted from Italian to French cooking when he returned to New York City for good to accept a sous chef job at Le Cirque followed by becoming chef de cuisine under Daniel Boulud at Café Boulud where he would remain for six years winning two James Beard Foundation Awards and a three-star review from the New York Times.