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4 unusual facts about James Beard Foundation Award


Anna Thomas

James Beard Foundation Award: Best Healthy Focus Cookbook, for Love Soup (2010).

Dark Rye

In 2013, Dark Rye won a James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast & Journalism Award for Best Group Food Blog.

Pierre Franey

Quickly becoming a hit, the series led to a companion book of the same title, followed by additional shows including “Cooking in America” and “Cooking in France,” which won the James Beard Foundation Award for the best cooking show in 1995, and finally “Cooking in Europe.”

The Original Pancake House

In 1999, the Original Pancake House in Portland received a James Beard Foundation Award as an American Classic.


Gabriel Frasca

Later on, he decided to become a chef, and by the age of 20 he was cooking French cuisine for James Beard Award winner named Gordon Hamersley at Hamersley’s Bistro.

Randy Caparoso

Yamaguchi, Caparoso and other partners went on to open more than thirty other Roy's restaurants from Tokyo to New York, garnering such distinctions as a James Beard Foundation Award, a Gault Millau "Top 50 In the U.S." ranking, and enshrinement in Nation's Restaurant News "Fine Dining Hall of Fame."


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