Last night, the 2010 James Beard Award winners were announced. The award highlights the year’s best cookbooks in several different subject areas. We at BookPage were especially pleased to see Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home, cookbook columnist Sybil Pratt’s 2009 favorite, take home the prize for General Cooking. Get your taste buds ready, because this week’s recipe will be Thomas Keller’s delicious take on Pineapple Upside Down Cake, from the pages of Ad Hoc at Home. Did anyone try David Lebovitz’s Nonfat Gingersnaps over the weekend?
2010 James Beard Award Winners (links take you to the BookPage review)
American Cooking
Real Cajun by Donald Link with Paula Disbrowe
Baking and Dessert
Baking by James Peterson
Beverage
Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology by Randall Grahm
Cooking from a Professional Point of View
The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts by The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
General Cooking
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
Healthy Focus
Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes by Anna Thomas
International
The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews
Photography
Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way by Francis Mallmann and Peter Kaminsky
Reference and Scholarship
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini de Vita
Single Subject
Pasta Sfoglia by Ron and Colleen Suhanosky with Susan Simon
Writing and Literature
Save the Deli by David Sax
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