James Beard Award Winners 2019
- American Cooking
- Baking and Dessert
- Beverage
- Cooking from a Professional Point of View
- General Cooking
- Healthy Focus
- International
- Nonfiction
- Photography
- Restaurant and Professional
- Single Subject
- Reference, History and Scholarship
- Vegetable-Cooking
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American Cooking
A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures by Cynthia Chen McTernan

American Cooking
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day by JJ Johnson and Alexander Smalls, with Veronica Chambers
WINNER

American Cooking
Sweet Home Café Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking by Albert G. Lukas and Jessica B. Harris
Baking and Dessert
Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing by Jerrelle Guy

Baking and Dessert
Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies by Cathy Barrow

Baking and Dessert
SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East by Greg Malouf and Lucy Malouf
WINNER

Beverage
Apéritif: Cocktail Hour the French Way by Rebekah Peppler
Beverage
The Aviary Cocktail Book by Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Micah Melton, Allen Hemberger, and Sarah Hemberger


Reference, History and Scholarship
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry by Anna Zeide
WINNER

Reference, History and Scholarship
Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta by Julian Rankin

Reference, History and Scholarship
Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture by Justin Nystrom

General
Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook by Dorie Greenspan


General
Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi

Health and Special Diets
The Complete Diabetes Cookbook by Editors at America’s Test Kitchen


Health and Special Diet
More with Less by Jodi Moreno


International
The Food of Northern Thailand by Austin Bush
International
I Am a Filipino by Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad
Writing
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
WINNER

Writing
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
Writing

Photography
Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food by Nik Sharma

Photography
Wild: Adventure Cookbook by Luisa Brimble

Restaurant and Professional
Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong by Matt Abergel
WINNER

Restaurant and Professional
From the Earth: World’s Great, Rare and Almost Forgotten Vegetables by Peter Gilmore

Restaurant and Professional
Rich Table by Evan Rich and Sarah Rich

Single Subject
Bread & Butter: History, Culture, Recipes by Richard Snapes, Grant Harrington, and Eve Hemingway


Single Subject
Korean BBQ: Master Your Grill in Seven Sauces by Bill Kim
Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Almonds, Anchovies, and Pancetta: A Vegetarian Cookbook, Kind Of by Cal Peternell

Vegetable-Focused Cooking
Vegetarian Viet Nam by Cameron Stauch

Cookbook Hall of Fame: Jessica B. Harris