In 2012, the ranking was: 1) Ristretto Roasters, 2) Barista Coffee, 3) Stumptown Coffee, 4) Heart, 5) Coava, 6) Coffeehouse NW, and 7) Extracto. For 2013, everything has changed.

Out of 1704 votes:

1. Barista Coffee - 18.74% of the total vote. Our review

• Barista I - Pearl District: 539 Northwest 13th Avenue, Portland. Map
• Barista II – Alberta St.: 1725 NE Alberta St., Portland. Map
• Barista III – 529 SW 3rd avenue, Portland 97214. Map

2. Ristretto Roasters - 7.56% Our review

• 2181 NW Nicolai St., Portland 97210  Map
• 3520 NE 42nd Ave, Portland 97213  Map
• 3808 N Williams Ave, Portland 97227  Map

3. Case Study Coffee – 5.90% Our review

• 5347 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland 97221 Map
• 802 SW 10th ave., Portland 97205 Map

4. Water Avenue Coffee 4.25% Map Our review

• 1028 SE Water Ave., Portland 97205 Map

Social media played a place this year, with companies like Kobos, Nossa Familia, Oblique Coffee Roasters and Rose City Coffee moving up in the ranking. Some notable changes: With the exception of Barista Coffee and Ristretto Roasters, none of the coffeehouses that made last years’ list placed in the top ten in 2013. Heart Roasters, which came out of nowhere last year to place 4th, plummeted, getting only 20 votes, followed closely by Coava Coffee Roasters, Coffeehouse NW, Jim & Patty’s and Extracto. Stumptown dropped way down, receiving 18 total votes; it is interesting that they won the 2013 survey for Best Roaster, but were half way down for Best Coffeehouse.

For those who are interested, the 2011 rankings were

• Stumptown Coffee Roasters,

Later this afternoon we’ll do a drawing for the winner of the $25 gift certificate to Barista Coffee, and will be notifying them by email.

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Aviary Warm Snap Pea and Barley Salad
Photo Antoinette Bruno, Francoise Villeneuve, Courtesy Aviary

Portland Dining Month is returning for the month of June. This year more than 80 restaurants are offering a special three-course dinner for $29.00. The promotion includes big name restaurants like Aviary, Biwa, Bluehour, Genoa, Lincoln and Paley’s Place as well as new businesses like Imperial, Oven & Shaker, Racion, Raven & Rose and Coppia.

Dining Month is a great way to check out local restaurants you’ve always wanted to go to, but couldn’t afford the cost. Here is an example of the Paley’s Place offerings:

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• Ristretto Coffee Roasters – 27.9%
• Stumptown Coffee Roasters – 27.2%
• Coava Coffee Roasters – 9%
• They were followed distantly by Sterling, Water Avenue and Courier Coffee Roasters

This year we received many more votes – 1288 vs. 736 last year ( the power of social media at work). This has caused a bit of a switch in the outcome. It is interesting to note that For 2013 a total of 38 businesses received votes (I didn’t vet that they were all roasters), which shows how common it is for a coffeehouse to also roast.

For 2013, out of 1308 votes,

Stumptown Coffee
Photo by Tim Roth Pupil Photo

1. Stumptown Coffee Roasters with 13.82% of the vote

• 4525 SE Division St., Portland 97206 Map
• 3356 SE Belmont St, Portland 97214 Map
• 128 SW 3rd Ave, Portland 97205 Map
• 3352 SE Belmont St., Portland 97214 Map
• 1026 SW Stark, Portland 97205  Map

2. Ristretto Roasters - 9.16%

• 2181 NW Nicolai St., Portland 97210 Map
• 3808 N Williams Ave, Portland 97227 Map

3. Coava Coffee Roasters - 7.3%

• 1300 SE Grand Ave, Portland 97214. Map Our review

The next two roasters all placed very closely in the vote tally with about 6.9%:

Heart Roasters, Water Avenue.

The rest of the field was way behind.

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Hugh Acheson – Top Chef, Five & Ten, The National, Empire State South – Atlanta, GA

Danny Bowien – San Francisco Mission Chinese

Floyd Cardoz – North End Grill, NYC

Jason Franey – Canlis, Seattle

Stephanie Izard – The Girl & The Goat, Chicago

Christopher Kostow – Meadowood, Napa Valley, CA

Matt and Ted Lee - The Lee Bros., Charleston, S.C.

Sarah Simmons - City Grit, NYC

Michael Voltaggio – Ink, Los Angeles, CA

Local Talent Including Greg Denton, Gregory Gourdet, Jenn Louis, Vitaly Paley, Naomi Pomeroy, Andy Ricker, Gabriel Rucker and Cathy Whims

PORTLAND, ORE. – May 17, 2013 – Like the chefs, artisans, farmers, winemakers, brewers, and distillers who will appear at Bon Appétit Presents: Feast Portland: A Celebration of Oregon Bounty, the flagship food and drink festival of the Pacific Northwest has sown, watered, loved and nurtured a second epic year of events, September 19-22, 2013. Break out the handiwipes as tickets go on sale Monday, May 20 at www.feastportland.com with a schedule of more than 40 events around Portland, Oregon. Attendees will once again Feast to fight childhood hunger, with net proceeds from the festival donated to Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon and Share Our Strength.

In keeping with its founding philosophy of facilitating collaborations between local chefs and some of the world’s most renowned names as well as fresh faces, Feast Portland 2013 promises a lineup as unique to food and drink festivals as Portland itself — from large-scale tasting events like the The Widmer Brothers Brewing Sandwich Invitational, Oregon Bounty Grand Tasting presented by Alaska Airlines, The USA Pears Night Market presented by Snake River Farms, and High Comfort at The Nines, to intimate sit-down dinners, hands-on classes, live culinary demonstrations, thought-provoking speakers, and industry get-togethers. Aaron Barnett (St. Jack), Jason Barwikowski (The Woodsman Tavern), Greg Denton (Ox), Patrick Fleming (Boke Bowl), Jason French (Nedd Ludd), Rick Gencarelli (Lardo), Benjamin Gonzales (Nuestra Cocina), Gregory Gourdet (Departure), Christopher Israel (Grüner), Jenn Louis (Lincoln), Vitaly Paley (Paley’s Place), Trent Pierce (Roe), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast), Andy Ricker (Pok Pok), newly minted 2013 James Beard Foundation (JBF) award winner Gabriel Rucker (Le Pigeon), Adam Sappington (The Country Cat), Scott Snyder (Levant), Erik Van Kley (Little Bird), Johanna Ware (Smallwares), Cathy Whims (Nostrana) and others welcome a roster of visiting chefs including Hugh Acheson (The National), 2013 JBF award winner Danny Bowien (Mission Chinese Food), 2013 JBF award winners Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski (State Bird Provisions), Sean Brock (McCrady’s), Floyd Cardoz (North End Grill), Tom Douglas (Tom Douglas Restaurants, Lola), Renee Erickson (The Walrus and the Carpenter), Jason Franey (Canlis), Aaron Franklin (Franklin BBQ), Duff Goldman (Charm City Cakes), 2013 JBF award winner Stephanie Izard (The Girl and the Goat), 2013 JBF award winner Christopher Kostow (Meadowood), Matt and Ted Lee, Matt Lightner (Atera), David McMillan and Frédéric Morin (Joe Beef), Thomas McNaughton (Flour + Water), Sarah Simmons (CITY GRIT), Christina Tosi (Momofuku Milk Bar), Michael Voltaggio (ink.) and Kris Yenbamroong (Night + Market).

Tickets, which can be purchased at feastportland.com, are for more than 40 events around Portland, Oregon, and offer a broad range, from the free Whole Foods Market Best Butcher Contest & Fishmonger Face-Off to individual event tickets starting at just $10 to “The Package,” which includes one ticket each to the Friday Oregon Bounty Grand Tasting, Saturday Oregon Bounty Grand Tasting, Sandwich Invitational, Night Market, and High Comfort, at $465.

“Feast Portland was created to capture the current energy and enthusiasm that’s driving America’s food renaissance in one of its epicenters, Portland, Oregon. We’re excited for another year of showcasing regional culinary talent and Pacific Northwest bounty alongside internationally recognized chefs, industry leaders, influential media, and other top food-world influencers,” said festival co-founders Mike Thelin and Carrie Welch.

“I’ll just go ahead and say it: Portland has the most dynamic, delicious, and straight-up fun food scene in the country,” said Adam Rapoport, editor in chief of Bon Appétit. “And this is a festival that captures all those qualities. Just ask all the big-name chefs hungering to get on board with it.”

Sponsors and partners of Feast Portland include: Bon Appétit, Travel Oregon, Whole Foods Market, USA Pears, Widmer Brothers Brewing Company, Alaska Airlines, Lincoln Motor Company, Snake River Farms, KitchenAid, SagaCity Media, Travel Portland, King Estate, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Union Wine Company, Nicky USA, Oregon State University: College of Agricultural Sciences, Pacific Natural Foods, Archery Summit, Hawks View Cellars, San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, William Grant & Sons, Chase Bank, Provenance Hotels, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Tillamook Cheese, Oregon Brewers Guild, Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission, Seafood Oregon, Bob’s Red Mill, Texas Pete’s Sauces, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Adelsheim Vineyard, Boedecker Cellars, Chehalem, Domaine Serene, Elk Cove Vineyards, Sokol Blosser, Willamette Valley Vineyards, Hotel Fifty, The Heathman Hotel, The Nines, Ecotrust, HOTLIPS, Le Cordon Bleu, Portland Art Museum, West Coast Events Productions, Young’s Market Company, KATU, Eater.com, The Oregonian, and Pollinate.

“Feast Portland takes place in the ingredient epicenter of the world – Oregon,” said Todd Davidson, CEO of Travel Oregon. “We invite visitors to come before and stay after the festival to see where the fresh, artisanal food comes from in Oregon, making it the premier culinary destination that it is.”

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
A complete listing of events and participants can be found on the Feast Portland Web site.
The Widmer Brothers Brewing Sandwich Invitational Presented By Lincoln Motor Company
Location: Director Park | Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 | Time: 6pm-9pm | Price: $95
What happens when 15 of America’s top chefs convene to harness their culinary ambition between two slices of bread? Enter the Sandwich Invitational; Feast Portland’s killer kick-off party, where wildly imaginative, chef’d-up interpretations redefine everything you thought the lowly sando could be. Enjoy sandwich bliss under the stars at Downtown Portland’s urbane Director Park, an experience paired with craft brews from legendary local Widmer Brothers Brewing plus Northwest wines and cocktails.

Oregon Bounty Grand Tasting Presented By Alaska Airlines: Friday and Saturday
Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square | Date: Friday, September 20, 2013 and Saturday, September 21, 2013 | Time: 12:00pm-5:00pm | Price: $60/day
Portland’s “living room,” Pioneer Courthouse Square, transforms into the city’s dining room for two days as dozens of the region’s most celebrated wineries, breweries, chefs, and artisans take over Downtown Portland’s most prime real estate for the festival’s premiere daytime event. Experience the scene, meet the chefs you’ve read about, discover the best Oregon wines and craft beers, and enjoy cooking demonstrations from celebrated chefs like Michael Voltaggio, Chris Cosentino, Jenn Louis, and Gabriel Rucker at the KitchenAid Main Demo Stage.

The USA Pears Night Market Presented By Snake River Farms
Location: Ecotrust Building | Date: Friday, September 20, 2013 | Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm | Price: $125
Join locally and nationally renowned chefs as they transform Portland’s historic Ecotrust building into the nation’s liveliest outdoor celebration of global street food. Called the nation’s best event of its kind by Food Republic, the Feast Portland Night Market is imbued with the spirit of the great bazaars of Southeast Asia and the Latin world. Enjoy a who’s who of craft beer, wine, and spirits to fuel an experience that embodies the sights, sounds, and smiles of a world culinary journey.

Whole Foods Market Best Butcher Contest & Fishmonger Face-Off
Location: Director Park | Date: Saturday, September 21, 2013 | Time: 11am-2pm | Price: FREE
After months of regional competitions at Whole Foods Market stores across the country, 12 butchers and fishmonger finalists are sharpening their knives to go head-to-tail for the glory of being named best in their craft. Come watch the sparks fly as the butcher and fishmonger finalists battle their way to the top. They will be judged by an expert panel that includes top chefs and media on presentation, craftsmanship and swagger in dazzling demos of knife work. Sample some surf-and-turf from Whole Foods Market’s meat and seafood partners, pause for live music, snap a picture in the photo booth, and even learn a thing or two about high-quality meat and sustainable seafood.

Whole Foods Market Speaker Series
Location: Portland Art Museum | Date: Friday September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2013 | Price: $10 each.

The Speaker Series showcases industry panels led by top culinary thought leaders in the world of restaurants, food, media, government, agriculture, business, and food policy.

High Comfort At The Nines
Location: The Nines Hotel | Date: Saturday, September 21, 2013 | Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm | Price: $175.
What happens when comfort food gets pushed out of its comfort zone? What would grandmother’s food taste like if grandma had a Michelin star, an immersion circulator, and a pantry full of Iberian ham, foie gras, and candy bars? The answer: High Comfort, the most decadent culinary event around. Last year’s event saw meat cereal, caviar sandwiches, and a charcuterie hall of fame without rival. This year, some of the best chefs from the US and Canada are taking it to the next level. Get ready to be fed silly and sip Oregon wines and champagne. Don’t plan anything early the next day.

Hands-On Classes & Tasting Panels
Location: Throughout Downtown Portland | Date: Friday, September 20, 2013 – Sunday, September 22, 2013 | Price: $45-125
For those who want to bring home more than just a wristband from the festival, the Hands-On Classes offer a unique setting to learn the tricks of the trade from the experts themselves. The Tasting Panels explore how Portland is at the forefront of a myriad of culinary industries, from cocktail infusions and nostalgic chocolate desserts to the return of the ever-popular competition, Wine vs. Beer.

Dinner Series
Location: Various Portland Restaurants | Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 – Sunday, September 22, 2013 | Time: 7pm | Price: $150
With each dinner combining the talents of a visiting chef and a Portland chef, the Feast Portland Dinner Series celebrates the spirit of culinary collaboration. These intimate dinners also feature selections from premier Oregon wineries and other local libations.

Brunch Series
Location: Various Portland Restaurants | Date: Sunday, September 22, 2013 | Time: 10am | Price: $75
A new addition to the Feast Portland lineup, the Brunch Series will combine the culinary talents of a visiting chef and a Portland chef. Each duo will create a collaborative menu for Portland’s most beloved meal, Sunday brunch.
In addition, visitors and media are invited to expand their Feast experience by taking advantage of pre- and post-event options that will take them to Oregon tastemakers’ favorite mouthwatering spots. Travel Oregon’s “Trails to Feast” inspirational itineraries give a firsthand look into Oregon’s bounty – meeting the farmers, fishermen, winemakers, foragers and food artisans who contributed the ingredients for Feast. For more information or to plan your tasty trail, go to TravelOregon.com/see-do/eat-drink. For more information regarding Feast media credentials and a hosted trip, go to FeastPortland.com/press.
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ABOUT BON APPÉTIT PRESENTS FEAST PORTLAND
Bon Appétit presents Feast Portland: A Celebration of Oregon Bounty is the flagship food and drink festival in the Pacific Northwest, capturing the current energy and enthusiasm driving America’s food revolution. Founded in 2012 by Mike Thelin and Carrie Welch, Feast Portland showcases local culinary talent and Pacific Northwest ingredients alongside internationally recognized chefs, culinary professionals and industry leaders. Feast Portland is also a festival with a mission, donating its net proceeds towards ending childhood hunger in Oregon and around the country through Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon and Share Our Strength. For more information visit www.feastportland.com and follow the festival on Facebook and Twitter (@FeastPDX).

ABOUT Bon Appétit Magazine
Bon Appétit and bonappetit.com , the fastest-growing epicurean site, deliver not just recipes, tips and techniques, but a world of lush travel, high-gloss entertaining and up-to-the-minute restaurant coverage. It’s a visually arresting publication, driven by excellent photography, clean graphics and headlines that pop. And notable faces, too: Each issue features of-the-moment tastemakers, from chefs and restaurateurs to fashion designers and celebrities. All of these elements combine to make Bon Appétit the largest epicurean magazine in America with the most affluent readership.

ABOUT TRAVEL OREGON
Oregon Tourism Commission, dba Travel Oregon, works to enhance visitors’ experience by providing information, resources and trip planning tools that inspire travel and consistently convey the exceptional quality of Oregon. The commission aims to improve Oregonians’ quality of life by strengthening economic impacts of the state’s $9.2 billion tourism industry that employs over 91,000 Oregonians. www.TravelOregon.com.

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It has been a hassle awarding the survey prizes over the past few years – people don’t return emails or they don’t like the prize and want to swap for something else, etc., so I have dropped the multiple prize donations in favor of a single prize for each section which I will pay for myself. For the coffee survey, the random drawing will be a $25 gift certificate to the winning business in the reader’s choice of Best Coffeehouse. Be sure to enter your email address if you’d like to be in the drawing. It will only be used to award the gift certificate, and they will then be erased. The survey will close when we have 1000 responses.

To make it easier, I have added a checkbox for the businesses which have received two votes or more in the 2011 and 2012 surveys, but you can fill in any that are missing from the list at the bottom. If I see a large number of write in votes for a particular company, I’ll add them to the list.

I’ve been told that some people are having issues voting from Mac’s using Chrome browser. If you find that to be the case, try Safari. For other issues, please drop me a note!

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…a new initiative focused on the development of a regional food and drink brand as a tool for economic development. The goal is that the new regional food brand will drive consumer awareness, create jobs and support the tourism efforts of communities across the region. At the meeting, the Association welcomed some of the most fervent food, drink and tourism players in the region to discuss topics such as borders, agricultural hallmarks, local entrepreneurship and sustainability in Cascadia.

Erik Wolf, Executive Director of WFTA explained the vision, “At its very core, Cascadian Cuisine is about economic and community development – bringing awareness, infusing fresh cash from outside the area, creating jobs, and preserving communities and the culinary culture of our region.”

Cascadian Cuisine draws deeply on the passion and unsurpassed quality of food and drink found in the bio-region that includes northwestern California, Oregon, Washington, southwestern British Columbia, Idaho and western Montana. In other words, as Jason French, Chef/Owner at Portland’s popular Ned Ludd Restaurant, says “the quality of our food and drink is very much grounded in the quality of the agricultural products found in Cascadia.”

Jason Knibbs, a tourism specialist from Vancouver, BC, Canada said he was “glad that the Association started the discussion about Cascadian Cuisine – a regional partnership like this has great opportunities.”

Do we really need our own regional cuisine? How about “Good Food”? Maybe we should just designate neighborhoods – “Inner Northeast Portland Cuisine”. Where does it stop!?

Feel free to argue/educate me. More information here.

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Rucker, who won the foundation’s Rising Star Chef of the Year award in 2011 is chef at the highly regarded restaurants Le Pigeon and Little Bird in Portland.

Other accolades include Food & Wine’s “Best New Chef” distinction in 2007. He and Meredith Erickson with Lauren and Andrew Fortgang, will release their first cookbook, Le Pigeon: Cooking at the Dirty Bird (Ten Speed Press), on September 17, 2013. Forwarded by Chef Tom Colicchio, the cookbook is a serious yet playful collection of 150 recipes celebrating Rucker’s high-low extremes in cooking, combining the wild and the refined in a unique and progressive style.

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By psp2pdx

pea shoots and favas
bounty at my fingertips
who’s green with envy?

By Rachel

cooking in a space
barely enough to turn ’round
still fills me with joy

By FrediaLighthouse

I reach down and pluck
white arugula flowers
peppery beauty

The winner of the pair of tickets to the 2013 Taste of the Nation is Giraffington McGoo for:

Trout caught fresh from stream,
dirt clinging to chantrelle feet,
we stoke the campfire.

Thanks again to Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation at McMenamin’s Crystal Hotel & Ballroom. Join them on Tuesday May 7th for

 an evening with Oregon’s Best Chefs, Winemakers, Brewers & Distillers as they come together to end childhood hunger.

Each ticket purchased helps support Share Our Strength’s efforts in eliminating childhood hunger as well as our local beneficiaries. In the wake of staggering reports that nearly half of all children in the U.S. will be on food stamps at the some point in their life, there is no time to waste. The time to act is now.

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Diane Morgan’s Roots: The Definitive Compendium with More than 225 Recipes won for “Vegetable Focused and Vegetarian books”. In the “Cookbook Awards” section, Ken Forkish of Ken’s Bakery and Ken’s Artisan Pizza won for Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza.

Here is the complete list of Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards:

COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR
Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America
by Maricel E. Presilla (W.W. Norton & Company)
Cookbook Hall of Fame
Anne Willan

AMERICAN COOKING
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart (Gibbs Smith)

BAKING AND DESSERT
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals
of Artisan Bread and Pizza
by Ken Forkish (Ten Speed Press)

BEVERAGE
Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine
Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, and  José Vouillamoz (Ecco)

COOKING FROM A PROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Toqué! Creators of a New Quebec Gastronomy
by Normand Laprise (les éditions du passage)

FOCUS ON HEALTH
Cooking Light The New Way to Cook Light:
Fresh Food & Bold Flavors for Today’s Home Cook
by Scott Mowbray and Ann Taylor Pittman (Oxmoor House)

GENERAL COOKING
Canal House Cooks Every Day
by Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

INTERNATIONAL
Jerusalem: A Cookbook
by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi (Ten Speed Press)

PHOTOGRAPHY
What Katie Ate: Recipes and Other Bits & Pieces
Photographer: Katie Quinn Davies (Viking Studio)

REFERENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP
The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
by Sandor Ellix Katz (Chelsea Green Publishing)

SINGLE SUBJECT
Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard
by Nigel Slater (Ten Speed Press)

VEGETABLE-FOCUSED AND VEGETARIAN
Roots: The Definitive Compendium with More Than 225 Recipes
by Diane Morgan (Chronicle Books)

WRITING AND LITERATURE
Yes, Chef: A Memoir
by Marcus Samuelsson (Random House)

RADIO SHOW/AUDIO WEBCAST
Fear of Frying
Host: Nina Barrett Area: WBEZ
Producer: Lynette Kalsnes

SPECIAL/DOCUMENTARY
(Television or Video Webcast)
The Restaurateur
Network: PBS. Producer: Roger Sherman

TELEVISION PROGRAM, IN STUDIO OR FIXED LOCATION
CBS Sunday Morning: “Eat, Drink and Be Merry”
Host: Charles Osgood Network: CBS
Producers: Gavin Boyle, Amol Mhatre, Rand Morrison, Amy Rosner, Jason Sacca, and Robin Sanders

TELEVISION PROGRAM ON LOCATION
The Mind of a Chef
Host: Anthony Bourdain
Network: PBS. Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Joe Caterini, Alexandra Chaden, Jonathan Cianfrani, Christopher Collins, Peter Meehan, Michael Steed, and Lydia Tenaglia

TELEVISION SEGMENT
Friday Arts, Art of Food
Network: WHYY TV  Producer: Monica Rogozinski

VIDEO WEBCAST, FIXED LOCATION AND/OR INSTRUCTIONAL
How to Cocktail
liquor.com. Producers: Kit Codik, Scott Kritz, and Noah Rothbaum

VIDEO WEBCAST, ON LOCATION
The Perennial Plate: Real Food World Tour
theperennialplate.com Hosts: Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine. Producers: Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine

OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY/HOST
Host: Andrew Zimmern
Show: Bizarre Foods America
Network: Travel Channel. Producers: Colleen Needles Steward and Andrew Zimmern

PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR AWARD
ChopChop

COOKING, RECIPES, OR INSTRUCTION
Matt Goulding, Matthew Kadey with Tamar Adler, and Paul Kita
Men’s Health - “The Butcher is Back!,” “The Six-Pack Foods of Summer,” “Southern Food Rises Again”

CRAIG CLAIRBORNE DISTINGUISHED RESTAURANT REVIEW AWARD
Tejal Rao
Village Voice - “Bangkok Pop, No Fetishes,” “The Sweet Taste of Success,” “Enter the Comfort Zone at 606 R&D”

FOOD AND CULTURE
Ann Taylor Pittman
Cooking Light “Mississippi Chinese Lady Goes Home to Korea”

FOOD AND TRAVEL
Adam Sachs
Travel + Leisure - “The Best Little Eating Town in Europe”

FOOD COVERAGE IN A GENERAL-INTEREST PUBLICATION
Men’s Health
Adina Steiman

FOOD POLITICS, POLICY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Tracie McMillan
The American Prospect with the Food & Environment Reporting Network - “As Common As Dirt”

FOOD-RELATED COLUMN
Adam Sachs
Bon Appétit - The Obsessivore: “I’m Big On Japan,” “Everyone’s a Critic,” “The Tradition Starts Here”

GROUP FOOD BLOG
Dark Rye
darkrye.com

HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Rachael Moeller Gorman
EatingWell - “Solving the Sugar Puzzle”

HUMOR
Alice Laussade
Dallas Observer - “The Cheap Bastard’s ultimate Guide to Eating like a Total Cheap Bastard in Dallas”

INDIVIDUAL FOOD BLOG
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
honest-food.net
Hank Shaw

MFK FISHER DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARD
Mike Sula
Chicago Reader
“Chicken of the Trees”

PERSONAL ESSAY
Fuchsia Dunlop
Lucky Peach
“London Town”

PROFILE
Brett Martin
GQ
“Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test”

VISUAL STORYTELLING
Michele Outland and Fiorella Valdesolo
Gather Journal
“Starters,” “Dessert,” “Smoke & Ash”

WINE, SPIRITS, AND OTHER BEVERAGES
Michael Steinberger
vanityfair.com
“A Vintage Crime”

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