Remembering a James Beard Award Winning Restaurant Lost to Fire

On a cool October evening in 2006, a very peculiar and very particularly Charleston, SC culinary institution took fire. Bright flames illumined the marshes along Sol Legare Creek with the brief flare of vanishing...

75+ Recipes From James Beard Award Winning Chefs

With the majority of this year’s James Beard Award winning chefs and restaurants being based in New York City, it can be challenging for those of us who live outside of the NY Metro Area to enjoy the culinary...

2009 James Beard Award Restaurant Finalists Announced

The James Beard Foundation has just announced the finalists for the 2009 James Beard Awards which honor some of America’s most respected restaurants, chefs, food authors, journalists, and restaurants.This...

Food 'Oscar' winners announced

The James Beard awards, aka the food 'Oscars' were handed out earlier Sunday.  And the top chef award went to Grant Achatz, a star of the 'molecular gastronomy movement' (Remember that chi-chi restaurant...