The Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America was an award from the James Beard Foundation that was given during the period of 1991-2018.
It was presented to members of the food and beverage industry who have been "identified by his or her peers as having displayed remarkable talent and achievement." The Who's Who awards were voted on by past honorees, with a ballot of 20 candidates distributed to the entire Who's Who group each year. The honors were initially awarded by Cook's Magazine (the predecessor to Cook's Illustrated), which inaugurated the award in 1984 but ceased publication in 1990. The award was administered by the James Beard Foundation from 1990 to 2018 and presented at the annual gala.
The foundation decided to retire the awards after 2018, citing a new commitment to inclusion. Including the inductees from the 1980s, the final Who's Who list included nearly 300 individuals. +Who's Who list by yearYearInducteesRef1991David Bouley, Ken Hom, Bryan Miller, Michel Richard, Nancy Silverton1992Albert Kumin, Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Drew Nieporent, Jane and Michael Stern, Patricia Wells1993Ariane and Michael Batterberry, Gael Greene, Robert M. Parker, Jr., Carl Sontheimer, Chuck Williams, Gregory Usher1994Jean Anderson, Cecily Brownstone, Narcisse Chamberlain, Ariane Daguin, George Faison, Joel Dean, Giorgio DeLuca, Zack Hanle, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Elizabeth Schneider, Jeff Smith, Tim and Nina Zagat1995Rick Bayless, Joachim Splichal, Harold McGee, Daniel Boulud, Milton Glaser, Madhur Jaffrey, Martha Stewart1996Lidia Bastianich, Christopher Kimball, Zelma Long, Nick Malgieri, Danny Meyer, Jean-Jacques Rachou, Charlie Trotter1997Flo Braker, Barbara Haber, Graham Kerr, Michael and Timothy Mondavi, Julian Niccolini, Alex von Bidder, Adam Tihany1998Paula Lambert, Carolyn O'Neil, Charles Palmer, Alan Richman, Jean-Georges Vongerichten1999R. W. Apple Jr., Ernest Gallo, Molly O'Neill, Bill Shore, Gail Zweigenthal2000Barbara Fairchild, Thomas Keller, Michael Romano, Jeffrey Steingarten, Larry Stone2001Mario Batali, Michael Ginor, Izzy Yanay, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Joan Nathan, Martin Yan2002Tom Colicchio, Alain Ducasse, Nobu Matsuhisa, Sara Moulton, Frank J. Prial2003Hubert Keller, Marion Nestle, Alain Sailhac, Jacques Torres, Norman Van Aken2004Michael Bauer, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Todd English, Andrea Immer, Eric Ripert2005Joseph Bastianich, Greg Drescher, Carol Field, Corby Kummer, Deborah Madison2006Sue Conley, Peggy Smith, Jean Joho, Gray Kunz, Kermit Lynch, Ari Weinzweig2007José Andrés, Jim Clendenen, Bobby Flay, Dorie Greenspan, Michael Pollan2008Dan Barber, Anthony Bourdain, Nancy Oakes, Russ Parsons, Zanne Early Stewart, Steve Sullivan2009David Burke, John T. Edge, Betty Fussell, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Clark Wolf2010Leah Chase, Jessica B. Harris, Paul C. P. McIlhenny, David Rockwell, L. Timothy Ryan, Susan Spicer2011Jonathan Gold, Lee Jones, Charles Phan, Frank Stitt, Nick Valenti2012Grant Achatz, Mark Bittman, Dana Cowin, Emily Luchetti, Marvin Shanken2013Eric Asimov, Dorothy Kalins, Barbara Lynch, Zarela Martinez, Michael Mina, Bill Yosses2014Edward Behr, John Besh, David Chang, Barry Estabrook, Paul Kahan, Sherry Yard2015Allan Benton, Dale DeGroff, Wylie Dufresne, Nathalie Dupree, Maricel Presilla2016Gina Gallo, Jim Lahey, Ed Levine, Temple Grandin, Marcus Samuelsson2017Suzanne Goin, Evan Kleiman, Roger Berkowitz, Michel Nischan, Rajat Parr2018Jody Adams, Lally Brennan, Ti Adelaide Martin, Allison Hooper, Daniel Johnnes
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