• The Wines of Burgundy
• Author: Clive Coates
• Publisher: University of California Press

• WineWise: Your Complete Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Enjoying Wine
• Authors: Steven Kolpan, Brian H. Smith, and Michael A. Weiss, The Culinary Institute of America
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Category: Cooking from a Professional Point of View

• Alinea
• Author: Grant Achatz
• Publisher: Achatz LLC/Ten Speed Press

• The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
• Author: Heston Blumenthal
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

• Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide
• Photography: Thomas Keller
• Co-Author: Deborah Jones
• Editor: Ann Bramson
• Publisher: Artisan Books

Category: General Cooking

• How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition)
• Author: Mark Bittman
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

• Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook
• Authors: Martha Stewart with Sarah Carey
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter

• The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook
• Author: Barbara Fairchild
• Editor: Pamela Chirls
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Category: Healthy Focus

• Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta
• Authors: Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of EatingWell
• Publisher: The Countryman Press
• Editor: Kermit Hummel
• Price: $24.95

• EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook
• Authors: Philip A. Ades, M.D. and the Editors of EatingWell
• Publisher: The Countryman Press

• The Food You Crave
• Author: Ellie Krieger
• Editor: Pam Hoenig
• Publisher: Taunton Press

Category: International

• Beyond the Great Wall
• Author: Jeffrey Alford
• Co-Author: Naomi Duguid
• Editor: Ann Bramson
• Publisher: Artisan Books

• Jewish Holiday Cooking
• Author: Jayne Cohen
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

• Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, & Singapore
• Author: Robert Danhi
• Publisher: Mortar & Press

Category: Photography

• The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
• Photographer: Dominic Davies
• Artist: Dave McKean
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

• Decadent Desserts
• Photographer: Thomas Dhellemmes
• Publisher: Flammarion

• Haute Chinese Cuisine from the Kitchen of Wakiya
• Photographer: Masashi Kuma
• Publisher: Kodansha International

Category: Reference and Scholarship

• Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
• Author: Anne Mendelson
• Publisher: Knopf

• The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity,
       Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
• Authors: Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

• The Science of Good Food
• Author: David Joachim
• Author: Andrew Schloss
• Co-Author: Philip Handel, Ph.D.
• Editor: Carol Sherman
• Publisher: Robert Rose Inc.

Category: Single Subject

• Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient
• Author: Jennifer McLagan
• Photographer: Leigh Beisch
• Editor: Clancy Drake
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press

• Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings
• Author: Joyce Goldstein
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

• The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever
• Author: Beatrice Ojakangas
• Publisher: Chronicle Books

Category: Writing and Literature

• In Defense of Food
• Editor: Michael Pollan
• Publisher: The Penguin Press

• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
• Author: Fuschia Dunlop
• Editor: Maria Guarnaschelli
• Publisher: W.W. Norton

• Raising Steaks
• Author: Betty Fussell
• Editor: Rebecca Saletan
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Besides cookbooks, the James Beard Foundation also nominates chefs, writers, designers and more for awards in other categories. For a full list, download the complete James Beard 2009 Award Nominees as a PDF file.

James Beard 2008 Cookbook Award Winners.

Also check out the 2008 James Beard Foundation—KitchenAid Book Award Winners and the 2009 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award Winners. Here's a link to search the James Beard awards site.

Cookbook Profile Archive

Created March 2009