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The 2025 James Beard Foundation Media Awards took place on June 14 in Chicago, and Eater Chicago’s Ashok Selvam won the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award. The award recognizes, according to the Beards, “the work of an individual who engages readers through enterprising food and dining coverage, and whose work displays versatility in form, such as reviews, profiles, […]...

Congratulations are in order for many members of food media: Tonight during a ceremony in Chicago, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2025 Media Award winners, bestowing medals to food professionals working in cookbooks, journalism, and television and audio programming. The awards whittled down winners from a long list of finalists that was announced in early […]...

The James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards will take place on June 16, 2025, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. This year’s ceremony for the Restaurant and Chef Awards will see winners crowned from the list of nominees announced on April 2 (that list whittled down from the list of semifinalists announced January 22) and […]...

It’s the Friday morning rush at Paisanos in Boerum Hill. There’s a constant ding of the doorbell as people shuffle in and out of the neighborhood butcher shop. Private chef Maddy DeVita steps inside. Her eyes drift up to the 65-pound stravecchio provolone wheels hanging from the ceiling as she makes her way over to […]...

The day after the 2024 presidential election results were announced, Nicole Nicholas’s Flatbush, Brooklyn neighborhood was “eerily quiet.” She recalls how her cafe Aunts et Uncles, which she runs with her husband Mike Nicholas, became a place for emotional processing. “We sat outside, shared conversations with customers, and even shed tears.” At that moment, their […]...

If you’re the kind of person who finishes a jar of pickles and finds yourself tipping it to sip the last of the juice, kanji is the drink you didn’t know you were waiting for. Popular throughout India, it’s like a brine you can drink by the glassful: fiery, sour, and the same deep purple […]...

Street food is one of the essential joys of summer. After months spent hiding from the elements inside temperature-controlled restaurants, there’s nothing like sitting in the sunshine with barbecue from one of Austin’s most exciting food trucks, digging into a cream cheese-slathered Seattle-style hot dog outside the Mariners game, or cooling off with one of […]...

If you’re still blanking on what to buy Pops for Father’s Day, I come with deliverance. We’ve assembled the best last-minute Father’s Day gifts, all of which either off super-fast shipping or require none at all. You won’t be the black sheep of the family this year — or if you are, it’s not because failed […]...

Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 15, which means that this is the week to either put the finishing touches on your 30th “coupon book for free hugs,” or make this the year that you actually order a smokeless fire pit on time to help his s’mores fantasies come to life. Dads are surprising creatures. […]...