2009 James Beard Cookbook Awards

Cookbook

The James Beard Foundation
2009 Cookbook Award Winners

Presented by Green & Black's®

For cookbooks published in English in 2008.

Winners were announced May 4, 2009.

Cookbook of the Year

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

Cookbook Hall of Fame

Jane Grigson, for her entire body of work, including:
Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Category: American Cooking

Screen Doors and Sweet Tea:
Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook
Author: Martha Hall Foose
Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Category: Baking

Bakewise
Author: Shirley O. Corriher
Publisher: Scribner

Category: Beverage

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

Category: General Cooking

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

Category: Healthy Focus

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

Category: Photography

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

Category: Reference and Scholarship

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

Category: Single Subject

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

Category: Writing and Literature

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

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 Winners as a PDF file.

James Beard 2008 Cookbook Award Winners.

Also check out the 2007 James Beard Foundation—KitchenAid Book Award Winners and the 2009 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award Winners.

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