James Beard Foundation announces 2025 media award nominees, next cohort of Taste America chefs

James Beard Foundation announces 2025 media award nominees, next cohort of Taste America chefs

The James Beard Foundation on Wednesday announced its James Beard Awards book and media nominees, which include Chicago native Ashok Selvam, regional editor for Eater Midwest. The nominees for its book, broadcast media and journalism awards celebrate digital and traditional media — radio, television broadcasts, podcasts, documentaries, online sites, social media — covering food and beverage topics published or self-published in 2024. Selvam was …

Arkansas journalist Jordan P. Hickey nominated for 2025 James Beard Media Award

Hickey’s story “The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas,” written for Longreads, was honored in the profile category of the 2025 James Beard Media Awards.

James Beard Award semifinalist John Brown Underground perfects the intersection of cocktail and concoction

Let Me Be Clear (left) and Time For Slurp (right) are some of the current menu favorites. // Photo by Sophia Lail James Beard Award semifinalist John Brown’s Underground perfects the intersection of cocktail and concoction.  Bartending sometimes emulates pop culture’s take on witchcraft; combining elixirs, potions, and spirits. Liquor is carefully measured, herbs are pestled, and recipes are nailed down to a science. Some of Kansas’s best mixolo…