[Sca-cooks] 2009 James Beard Nominees

[Johnna Holloway]

Here are the James Beard nominees for cookbooks published in English in 
2008.

Johnnae

            AMERICAN COOKING

/*Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited*/
by Arthur Schwartz
(Ten Speed Press)

/*Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of
New Orleans*/
Edited by: Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker
(Chronicle Books)

/*Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook*/
by Martha Hall Foose
(Clarkson Potter)


            BAKING

/*Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking*/
by Shirley O. Corriher
(Scribner)

/*Baking for All Occasions: A Treasury of Recipes for Everyday
Celebrations*/
by Flo Braker
(Chronicle Books)

/*The Art and Soul of Baking*/
by Cindy Mushet, Sur La Table
(Andrews McMeel Publishing)


            BEVERAGE

/*The Harney and Sons Guide to Tea*/
by Michael Harney
(The Penguin Press)

/*The Wines of Burgundy*/
by Clive Coates
(University of California Press)

/*WineWise: Your Complete Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and
Enjoying Wine*/
by Steven Kolpan, Brian H. Smith, and Michael A. Weiss, The Culinary
Institute of America
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)


            COOKING FROM A PROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW

/*Alinea*/
by Grant Achatz
(Achatz LLC/Ten Speed Press)

/*The Big Fat Duck Cookbook*/
by Heston Blumenthal
(Bloomsbury USA)

/*Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide*/
by Thomas Keller
(Artisan)


            GENERAL COOKING

/*How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition)*/
by Mark Bittman
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

/*Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook*/
by Martha Stewart with Sarah Carey
(Clarkson Potter)

/*The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook*/
by Barbara Fairchild
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)


            HEALTHY FOCUS

/*Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta: Recipes from the
World-Famous Spa*/
by Deborah Szekely and Deborah M. Schneider, with Jesús González
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang)

/*EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook*/
by Philip A. Ades, M.D. and the Editors of EatingWell
(The Countryman Press)

/*The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life*/
by Ellie Krieger
(The Taunton Press, Inc.)


            INTERNATIONAL

/*Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China*/
by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
(Artisan)

/*Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover’s Treasury of Classics and
Improvisations*/
by Jayne Cohen
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

/*Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand,
Vietnam, Malaysia, & Singapore*/
by Robert Danhi
(Mortar & Press)


            PHOTOGRAPHY

/*The Big Fat Duck Cookbook*/
Photographer: Dominic Davies
Artist: Dave McKean
(Bloomsbury USA)

/*Decadent Desserts*/
Photographer: Thomas Dhellemmes
(Flammarion)

/*Haute Chinese Cuisine from the Kitchen of Wakiya*/
Photographer: Masashi Kuma
(Kodansha International)


            REFERENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP

/*Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages*/
by Anne Mendelson
(Knopf)

/*The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on
the Wisdom of America’s Most Imaginative Chefs*/
by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
(Little, Brown and Company)

/*The Science of Good Food*/
by David Joachim and Andrew Schloss, with A. Philip Handel, Ph.D.
(Robert Rose Inc.)


            SINGLE SUBJECT

/*Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes*/
by Jennifer McLagan
(Ten Speed Press)

/*Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and
Mix-and-Match Dressings*/
by Joyce Goldstein
(W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

/*The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever*/
by Beatrice Ojakangas
(Chronicle Books)


            WRITING AND LITERATURE

/*In Defense of Food*/
by Michael Pollan
(The Penguin Press)

/*Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China*/
by Fuchsia Dunlop
(W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

/*Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef*/
by Betty Fussell
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)