James Beard Nominations Announced-Chitown does well

Chitown represent!

Rising Star Chef

Graham Eliot Bowles - Avenues

Best Chef Midwest

Shawn McClain - Spring, Green Zebra, and Custom House

Best New Restaurant

Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas-Alinea

In addition to those folks, others who got nods include: Rick Bayless, Charlie Trotter, Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune, Carol Mighton Haddix and the whole Chicago Tribune food section, Everest, and Spiaggia.

In case anyone wants to hear recent interviews with Chef Bowles or Chef McClain, we got em at Hungry Magazine

carrie nahabedian was nominated for best midwest chef

Here's a more complete list of local nominees, with a link to the Beard site, which has all of the nominations:

Chicago's Beard nominees

How could you possibly forget Carrie Nahabedian as best chef in the Midwest? (NAHA) She is awesome!!!

you might want to read the entire (short) thread

HI,

There is a missing link to the James Beard nominations from the Chicago area. There is a new category for the awards: websites. One nominated website is Spatullatta, whose creator has posted on LTHforum.

James Beard Nominations wrote:A new category—Webcasts on Food—was added to the James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards, presented by Viking Range Corporation, to recognize the growing number of food-related webcasts. Entries were original programs produced for the Internet. The 2006 nominees in this category include All You Can Eat (www.pacificpalate.com), Hear and Now (www.here-now.org) and Spatulatta.com (www.spatulatta.com), the Awards’ first-ever nominated show with co-hosts under the age of 11. The broadcast media Awards are for television shows, radio shows, and webcasts on food and beverage aired in 2005.

The same entity has also made a film on artisinal cheese production, which will be the basis of a Chicago Foodways Roundtable program later this year.

Regards,