Midwesterners Land 2013 James Beard Awards
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The James Beard Foundation Awards showcase everything great about food in America.
Each year, the foundations recognizes innovative chefs and daring restaurants, as well as the authors, reviewers and other committed foodies who tell wonderful stories and help elevate our collective culinary standards.
The Skinny:
- James Beard Foundation
- jamesbeard.org/awards
- New York City
- 212.675.4984
The Midwest is well represented in this year’s cadre of award recipients, announced during celebrations May 3 and May 6.
Congratulations to the following Midwest winners:
Photo source: ninabarrett.com.
Radio Show/Audio Webcast
Fear of
Frying
Host:
Nina Barrett, Evanston, Ill.
Area:
WBEZ
Producer:
Lynette Kalsnes
Andrew Zimmern. Photo source: Twitter.
Outstanding Personality/Host
Host: Andrew Zimmern, St. Louis Park, Minn.
Show: Bizarre Foods America
Network: Travel Channel
Producers: Colleen Needles Steward and Andrew Zimmern
Photo source: Chicago Reader. Image by Peter Thomas Ryan.
MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
Mike Sula, Chicago
Chicago Reader
“Chicken of the Trees”
Colby and Megan Garrelts. Photo source: Bluestem.
Best Chef of the Midwest
Bluestem
Colby
Garrelts
Kansas
City, Mo.
Tracie McMillan. Photo source: Twitter.
Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment
Tracie
McMillan, Detroit native
The
American Prospect with the Food & Environment Reporting Network
“As Common
As Dirt”
Stephanie Izard. Photo source: Twitter
Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH)
Stephanie
Izard
Girl & the Goat
Chicago
Photo source: The Aviary.
Outstanding Bar Program
The Aviary
Chicago
Chef Paul Kahan. Photo source: Blackbird. Photo by Michael Stryder.
Outstanding Chef
Paul
Kahan
Blackbird
Chicago
Sausage dinner from Kramarczuk's. Photo source: Kramarczuk's.
America's Classics Award
Kramarczuk’s
Minneapolis
Owner:
Orest Kramarczuk
