Entries for the 2024 James Beard Book Awards were accepted for all cookbooks and other nonfiction food and beverage books published in the U.S. in 2023. Books from foreign publishers were eligible if they bore a 2023 U.S. copyright date or were distributed in the U.S. during 2023.
This year’s winners, announced tonight at Columbia College, were:
Baking and Desserts
Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival Baking from Belgium, the Heart of the Low Countries
Regula Ysewijn
(Weldon Owen)
Beverage with Recipes
Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More Danny Childs
(Hardie Grant North America)
Beverage without Recipes
Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro Piñera
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Food Issues and Advocacy
Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis: Essays and Recipes
Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
(Rutgers University Press)
General
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
Sohla El-Waylly
(Alfred A. Knopf)
International
The World Central Kitchen Cookbook
José Andrés and World Central Kitchen with Sam Chapple-Sokol
(Clarkson Potter)
Literary Writing
The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García
Laura Tillman
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Reference, History, and Scholarship
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
(University of Minnesota Press)
Restaurant and Professional
Fish Butchery: Mastering The Catch, Cut, And Craft
Josh Niland
(Hardie Grant Books)
Single Subject
Pasta Every Day: Make It, Shape It, Sauce It, Eat It
Meryl Feinstein
(Hachette Book Group)
U.S. Foodways
Love Japan: Recipes from Our Japanese American Kitchen
Aaron Israel and Sawako Okochi with Gabriella Gershenson
(Ten Speed Press)
Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds
Hetty Lui McKinnon
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Visuals
The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp
Yudi Echevarria
(Ten Speed Press)
Cookbook Hall of Fame
Pierre Thiam
Emerging Voice
Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed
Abi Balingit
(HarperCollins)
