Call for Columnists: Brainy, Artful Generalists, Rejoice!

Short Ends and Leader

Home>Moving Citations

Food

The Best Food Writing from the James Beard Awards

Discuss

Text:A A A

8:17 am

Thursday, May 19, 2011

by PopMatters Staff

by Good

Good (17 May 2011)

“If you don’t live near any of the restaurants honored in last week’s James Beard Awards, at least you can still read the great stories nominated in the journalism categories.

Here are a couple of my favorites (not all of them were official winners).”

Read the article

Latest in Food

How British Social History Is Written Through Our Cookbooks
— Felicity Cloake (New Statesman, 27 June 2011)

The Best Food Writing from the James Beard Awards
— Good (Good, 17 May 2011)

Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism
— Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic, 4 May 2011)

The New Geopolitics of Food
— Lester R. Brown (Foreign Policy, May 2011)

Why "Top Chef" Gets Me Cooking
— Allen St. John (Salon, 16 June 2010)

I'm a Burgundy Man
— Mike Steinberger (Slate, 12 April 2010)

Cocktails Cops Can't Resist
— Katherine Mangu-Ward (Reason, 2 April 2010)

Hipsters on Food Stamps
— Jennifer Bleyer (Salon, 15 March 2010)

Russia’s Evolution, Seen Through Golden Arches
— Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times, 1 February 2010)

Hipster Moonshine: Hooch Isn’t Just for Hillbillies Anymore
— Wayne Curtis (The Atlantic, April 2010)

Comments

Now on PopMatters

Features

Is Corporate Sponsorship Now Long-Form Journalism’s Last Hope?

Drawn Back Into Dreaming: Spotlight on Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

Columns

Ragnarök: Latitudes and Longitudes of Darkness: Four Remarkable 2013 Black Metal Albums

Blogs

Mixed Media: Mr Carmack – Birth Control / Hopscotch / Pay (For What) (streams)

Short Ends and Leader: '33 Postcards' Is a Classic Coming-of-Age Tale

Graphic Novelties: Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness

Sound Affects: Counterbalance No. 129: 'Saturday Night Fever'

Moving Pixels: Rectangles Are People Too in 'Thomas Was Alone'

Music

The Breeders: LSXX (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Reissue)

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood: Black Pudding

Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows

Little Boots: Nocturnes

Alex Calder: Time

Whitechapel: The Somatic Defilement

Film

'Stories We Tell': Sarah Polley Ponders Movies and Truths

The Pleasures of Collecting and... Grafting: 'The Fruit Hunters'

'Erased': A Father's Past is Inescapable, or Is It?

DVDs

Capitalism’s Self-Corrections: 'Repo Man'

'Shanghai Noon' / 'Shanghai Knights'

Books

'A Delicate Truth', An Ugly Business

Multimedia

Papo & Yo

We Aren't the Mods and Other Sorry Tales of a Fashion Slave (Columns)
From Thinking Steaks to TITANic Mistakes: The 'Star Trek' Films They Almost Made (Features)
Pink Floyd: The Prog Rock Archetype (Columns)
'Arrested Development' Season 4 Trailer & Banana Stand Pics (Mixed Media)
De-Loused in the Discography: A Look Back at the Mars Volta (Features)
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (Reviews)
'Spring Breakers', 'Pain & Gain' and Postmodern Folly at the Movies (Columns)
Five Reasons Remaking 'The Great Gatsby' in 2013 Was a Great Idea (Short Ends and Leader)
Queensryche: 21 April 2013 - San Francisco, CA (Reviews)
PR, Paramount, and the 'Star Trek' Disaster (Short Ends and Leader)
Dead Island: Riptide (Reviews)
Anti-Flag Rages on Against the Machine in 2013 (Features)
Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century (Features)
Savages: Silence Yourself (Reviews)
The 10 Best Early Billy Bragg Songs (Sound Affects)
How Do Film Adaptations of Books, Such As 'The Great Gatsby', Affect an Author's Literary Status? (Columns)
Rod Stewart: Time (Reviews)
R.E.M.: Green (25th Anniversary Edition) (Reviews)
Various Artists: The Great Gatsby Soundtrack (Reviews)
She & Him: Volume 3 (Reviews)

PM Picks

Announcements

Call for Columnists: Brainy, Artful Generalists, Rejoice!

Call for Feature Essays About Any Aspect of Popular Culture, Present or Past

Call for Electronic Music Critics and Bloggers

Call for UK-Based DVD and Music Critics

Open Call for Submissions for Popular Flashpoints Series

Call for Book Reviewers and Bloggers

Call for Papers: PopMatters Celebrates The Jam in Massive Special Section

Call for Papers: Director Spotlight: Orson Welles

Call for Papers: Dickens 200: Readings and Re-readings

Call for Blah, Blah Bloggers

Call for DVD Critics and TV Bloggers

Pop Past – It's 'Past', But It's Never 'Over'

© 1999-2013 PopMatters.com. All rights reserved.
PopMatters.com™ and PopMatters™ are trademarks
of PopMatters Media, Inc.

PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
PopMatters is a member of Spin Music, a division of SpinMedia, an advertising network.