JBF Cookbook Nominees

This week, the James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for outstanding achievement in book, broadcast media, and journalism—aka the Oscars of the food world! After a brief hiatus, the 2022 awards are particularly competitive because all food-related books published in both 2021 and 2020 were eligible to enter. A big professional goal of mine is to see my name on this list (one day!), and I was completely thrilled to see several books that I worked on were honored among the nominees. Roxana Jullapat’s Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution is a finalist in the Baking and Desserts category. For the International category, two of the three nominees are books that I adapted for North American readers: Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley and Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus by Yasmin Khan. Congratulations to all the nominees!