The James Beard Foundation
2008 Cookbook Award Nominees

Presented by Green & Black's®

For cookbooks published in English in 2007.

Winners were announced June 8, 2008. Here are the James Beard 2008 Cookbook Award Winners.

 

Category: Asian Cooking

• My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
• Author: Niloufer Ichaporia King
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Editor: Hannah Love
• Price $27.50

• Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook
• Author: Fuchsia Dunlop
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
• Editor: Maria Guarnaschelli
• Price: $29.95

• The Seventh Daughter:
  My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco
• Author: Cecilia Chiang with Lisa Weiss
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Amanda Berne
• Price: $35.00

Category: Baking and Dessert

• A Baker's Odyssey
• Author: Greg Patent
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Editor: Pamela Chirls
• Price: $34.95

• Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads:
  New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
• Author: Peter Reinhart
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Meghan Keeffe
• Price: $35.00

• Pure Dessert
• Author: Alice Medrich
• Publisher: Artisan
• Editors: Ann Bramson/Judith Sutton
• Price: $35.00

Category: Cooking from a Professional Point of View

• Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking
• Authors: Laurent Tourondel and Michele Scicolone
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Editor: Pamela Chirls
• Price: $34.95

• The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine
• Authors: The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
• Editor: Leslie Stoker
• Price: $75.00

• Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
• Author: Masaharu Morimoto
• Publisher: DK Publishing
• Editor: Anja Schmidt
• Price: $40.00

Category: Entertaining

• Dish Entertains
• Author: Trish Magwood
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Editor: Kirsten Hanson
• Price: $44.95 CDN

• Great Bar Food at Home
• Author: Kate Heyhoe
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Editor: Justin Schwartz
• Price: $17.95

• Welcome to Michael's: Great Food, Great People, Great Party!
• Author: Michael McCarthy
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Editor: Michael Sand
• Price: $40.00

Category: Americana

• The Glory of Southern Cooking
• Author: James Villas
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Editor: Justin Schwartz
• Price: $34.95

• Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections
• Author: Jean Anderson
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Editor: Hugh Van Dusen
• Price: $32.50

• Rosa's New Mexican Table
• Author: Roberto Santibanez
• Publisher: Artisan
• Editors: Trent Duffy/Judith Sutton
• Price: $35.00

Category: General

• Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook
• Author: Jacques Pépin
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
• Editor: Leslie Stoker
• Price: $45.00

• Cooking
• Author: James Peterson
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Lorena Jones
• Price: $40.00

• How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
• Author: Mark Bittman
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Editor: Linda Ingroia
• Price: $35.00

Category: Healthy Focus

• The EatingWell Diet
• Authors: Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of EatingWell
• Publisher: The Countryman Press
• Editor: Kermit Hummel
• Price: $24.95

• Super Natural Cooking:
  Five Ways to Incorporate Whole & Natural Ingredients
  into Your Cooking
• Author: Heidi Swanson
• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Editor: Meghan Keeffe
• Price: $20.00

• The Wine and Food Lover's Diet: 28 Days of Delicious Weight Loss
• Author: Phillip Tirman
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Editor: William LeBlond
• Price: $24.95

Category: International

• The Country Cooking of France
• Author: Anne Willan
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Editor: William LeBlond
• Price: $50.00

• Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes
  from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most
• Authors: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Editor: Judith Jones
• Price: $35.00

• Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen
• Authors: Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman
• Publisher: Artisan
• Editors: Ann Bramson/Judith Sutton
• Price: $35.00

Category: Reference

• Food: The History of Taste
• Editor: Paul Freedman
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Price: $39.95

• Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide
  to Oyster Eating in North America
• Author: Rowan Jacobsen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Editor: Kathy Belden
• Price: $24.95

• The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
• Authors: Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Brie Mazurek
• Price: $29.95

Category: Single Subject

• Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials
• Author: Laura Werlin
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
• Editor: Leslie Stoker
• Price: $24.95

• The River Cottage Meat Book
• Author: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Editor: Clancy Drake
• Price: $40.00

• Vegetable Harvest
• Author: Patricia Wells
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Editor: David Sweeney
• Price: $34.95

Category: Wine and Spirits

• The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
• Author: Julia Flynn Siler
• Publisher: Gotham Books
• Editor: Patrick Mulligan
• Price: $28.00

• IMBIBE! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, A Salute in Stories
  and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
• Author: David Wondrich
• Publisher: Perigee
• Editor: Marian Lizzi
• Price: $23.98

• To Cork or Not To Cork:
  Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle
• Author: George M. Taber
• Publisher: Scribner
• Editor: Brant Rumble
• Price: $26.00

Category: Writing on Food

• American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes
• Editor: Molly O'Neill
• Publisher: The Library of America
• Price: $40.00

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Author: Barbara Kingsolver
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Editor: Terry Karten
• Price: $26.95

• Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss
  and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
• Author: Gina Kolata
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Editor: Paul Elie
• Price: $24.00

Category: Photography

• The Country Cooking of France
• Photographer: France Ruffenach
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Editor: William LeBlond
• Price: $50.00

• Crust
• Photographer: Jean Cazals
• Publisher: Kyle Books
• Editor: Sophie Allen
• Price: $35.00

• Egg
• Photographer: Grant Symon
• Publisher: Éditions Flammarion
• Editor: Kate Mascaro
• Price: $45.00

 

The Cookbook of the Year and Cookbook Hall of Fame winners were announced on June 8, 2008. Here are the James Beard 2008 Cookbook Award Winners.

 

Also check out the latest International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards (includes Julia Child Award).

 

Full list of latest James Beard Foundation Cookbook Awards

Cookbook Profile Archive

 

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