James Beard Award winners of the Best Chef Award share what they are most proud to have brought to their communities.

"Every week, my husband, Jesse, would go out and fish. He’d walk over to the nearby creek, and he would come back with overflowing buckets of fish—anything from whiting to shrimp to spottail bass, and ...

Today, we’re proud to announce the 2024-25 Legacy Network cohort! The James Beard Foundation Legacy Network presented by ...

Today, we are excited to announce the 2024 fall cohort of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (WEL) program. The flagship initiative of our Women’s Leadership Programs, WEL is an advanced ...

For this delicious take on French onion soup, J. J. Kingery uses mushrooms from a local farm and bourbon from Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky. This recipes employs the flambé technique, so make ...

One of James Beard’s greatest culinary influences was Jue Let, the Beard family’s Chinese cook. Beard often wrote that everything Let made, from simple rolls and breads to intricate Chinese dishes, ...

The James Beard Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to celebrate, support, and elevate the people behind America’s food culture and champion a standard of good food anchored in ...

These faux “onion rings” are a classic James Beard hors d’oeuvre that have been popular since the 1965 publication of Menus for Entertaining. The edges of the tea sandwiches are rolled in finely ...

"Created during World War II by Donn Beach, the name is Morse code for 'Victory.' The garnish cleverly represents the Morse code. The three cherries are the 'dots, and the 'dash' was, traditionally, ...