James Beard Awards

The James Beard Foundation Award Nominees were just announced, and it's my pleasure to announce that my client, Andrew Weissman, has been nominated for a third consecutive year for Best Chef: Southwest.

Here are the nominees for the Book Awards:

ASIAN COOKING
My Bombay Kitchen by Niloufer Ichaporia King
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook by Fuchsia Dunlop
The Seventh Daughter by Cecilia Chiang with Lisa Weiss

BAKING AND DESSERT
A Baker's Odysseyby Greg Patent
Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads by Peter Reinhart
Pure Dessertby Alice Medrich

COOKING FROM A PROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Bistro Laurent Tourondel by Laurent Tourondel and Michele Scicolone
The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine by The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
Morimoto by Masaharu Morimoto

ENTERTAINING
Dish Entertains by Trish Magwood
Great Bar Food at Home by Kate Heyhoe
Welcome to Michael's by Michael McCarthy

AMERICANA
The Glory of Southern Cooking by James Villas
A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson
Rosa's New Mexican Table by Roberto Santibanez

GENERAL
Chez Jacques by Jacques Pépin
Cooking by James Peterson
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman

HEALTHY FOCUS
The Eating Well Diet by Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of Eating Well Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson
The Wine and Food Lover's Diet by Phillip Tirman

INTERNATIONAL
The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan
Lidia's Italy by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen by Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman

REFERENCE
Food: The History of Taste edited by Paul Freedman
A Geography of Oysters by Rowan Jacobsen
The Story of Tea by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss

SINGLE SUBJECT
Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials by Laura Werlin
The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Vegetable Harvestby Patricia Wells

WINE AND SPIRITS
The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler
Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash by David Wondrich
To Cork or Not To Cork by George M. Taber

WRITING ON FOOD
American Food Writing edited by Molly O'Neill
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata

PHOTOGRAPHY
The Country Cooking of France/Photographer: France Ruffenach
Crust/Photographer: Jean Cazals
Egg/Photographer: Grant Symon