Winners were announced on Monday, May 4, for the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the food and beverage industries. During a ceremony hosted by Cat Cora, Emeril Lagasse, and Stanley Tucci at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, John Currence of Oxford, Mississippi, owner of City Grocery, Bouré, Big Bad Breakfast, and Snackbar, was named Best Chef: South. Martha Hall Foose of Pluto and Greenwood, Mississippi, took home the award for the Best Cookbook about American Cooking for her book Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook. John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, contributing editor for Gourmet, and monthly columnist for the New York Times, was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Though members represent a diverse cross section of the food and beverage industry—from chefs to journalists to farmers to business executives to scholars—each has been identified by his or her peers as having displayed remarkable talent and achievement. Every member of the Who’s Who has contributed in some substantial way to America’s constantly evolving culinary scene.
Melissa Booth Hall
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