UPDATE: Monica Eng’s nominated slaughterhouse piece (which, again, is highly recommended reading) has a new, more readable link here.
As I found when I did a book on movie awards some years ago, the same organizations that make such a fuss over their ceremonies for awards often give short shrift to anyone’s ability to see what was considered award-worthy, or even to know what it actually was— there were titles from the major foreign film festivals, for instance, which had vanished completely (what were you, Golden Harvest of the Witwatersrand, that Venice gave you an award in the 30s?)
So I’m going to try to track down a bunch of the Beard-nominated food journalism and give you the chance to check it out for yourself. Someday, online award lists will have links. Until then, here for starters are the newspaper nominees. Enjoy some good eatin’-readin’.
NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING ABOUT RESTAURANTS AND/OR CHEFS
Monica Eng, Phil Vettel
Chicago Tribune
“Big Night. Big Mystery: Why Did Michael Carlson Vanish the Day After Serving Dinner to the Greatest Chefs in the World?”
WINNER: Katy McLaughlin
The Wall Street Journal
“Sushi Bullies”
Tom Sietsema
The Washington Post
“Sound Check” (I think this piece is the correct one, though it has a different title here)
NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING WITHOUT RECIPES
Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune
“Morality Bites: Mustering Some Sympathy for the Bedeviled Ham and Beef”
WINNER: Kristen Hinman
Riverfront Times
“The Pope of Pork”
Craig LaBan
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“The Tender and the Tough”
NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING WITH RECIPES
WINNER: Rebekah Denn
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“High on the Hairy Hogs: Super-Succulent Imports are Everything U.S. Pork Isn’t” (abstract onlyfull article now!)
David Leite
The New York Times
“Perfection? Hint: It’s Warm and Has a Secret”
Kathleen Purvis
The Charlotte Observer
“The Belly of the Beast”
NEWSPAPER FOOD SECTION
Chicago Tribune
Carol Mighton Haddix
San Francisco Chronicle
Jon Bonné and Miriam Morgan
WINNER: The Washington Post
Joe Yonan
Incidentally, Monica Eng’s ham and beef piece is the one about slaughterhouses which I linked to when I posted the “There Will Be Pork” podcasts, it is definitely worth reading (not that most of them aren’t). The one that’s a mystery to me is David Leite’s one about aging your cookie dough overnight before baking cookies. One, it hardly seems a journalistic breakthrough, two, I tried it and I didn’t see what the big fuss was….
Other Nominees:
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