It’s an honor to be nominated!

The Chicago Reader and Sky Full of Bacon earned a nomination at the James Beard Awards today, the biggest awards in the food world. The Whole Hog Project, consisting of Mike Sula’s extensive series of articles and blog posts on mulefoot pigs, plus There Will Be Pork, my two-part video podcast on the same subject, was nominated in the Food Journalism/Multimedia category.

Here are the two parts, if you’ve never seen them:


Sky Full of Bacon 05: There Will Be Pork (pt. 1) from Michael Gebert on Vimeo


Sky Full of Bacon 06: There Will Be Pork (pt. 2) from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.

Incidentally, three of the restaurants featured in those podcasts are up for restaurant awards: Paul Kahan of Blackbird for best chef, Koren Grieveson of Avec (she’s not in it, but one of her chefs, Justin Large, is) for best chef Great Lakes, and The Publican for design/graphics. Other Chicago nominees include Monica Eng (twice), Carol Mighton Haddix and Phil Vettel of the Trib, Steve Hungry Hound Dolinsky, and the Alinea cookbook.

Here’s the Reader’s announcement, which mentions Sky Full of Bacon.

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Posted in: Media | 23 March 2009 | by: Michael Gebert #189

4 Responses to “It’s an honor to be nominated!”

  1. consumatron Says:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Congratulations! I have forwarded There Will Be Pork to many of my friends around the world and am so happy to see one of my favorite local food writers up for a Beard!

  2. E L Says:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    wow. congrats!

  3. The Local Beet: Chicago » Beard Nominates Whole Hog Project Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    [...] The project has been nominated in the Food Journalism/Multimedia category for the mulefoot pig series of articles and videos. Read more about it at Sky Full of Bacon. [...]

  4. rob mchenry Says:
    April 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Hope you win. It’s a major award!
    Rob