James Beard Award Nominees and Winners 2013
- American Cooking
- Baking and Dessert
- Beverage
- Cooking from a Professional Point of View
- General Cooking
- Focus on Health
- International
- Photography
- Reference and Scholarship
- Single Subject
- Vegetable Focused and Vegetarian
- Writing and Literature
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IndexedAmerican Cooking
Fire in My Belly: Real Cooking by Kevin Gillespie and David Joachim
IndexedAmerican Cooking
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart
WINNER
IndexedAmerican Cooking
Southern Comfort: A New Take on the Recipes We Grew Up With by Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing
IndexedBaking and Dessert
Bouchon Bakery by Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel
IndexedBaking and Dessert
The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle by Tom Douglas and Shelley Lance
IndexedBaking and Dessert
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza by Ken Forkish
WINNER

Beverage
How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto by Eric Asimov

Beverage
Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World’s Most Ancient Pleasures by Paul Lukacs

Beverage
Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, and José Vouillamoz
WINNER
IndexedCooking from a Professional Point of View
Come In, We’re Closed: An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World’s Best Restaurants by Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy

Cooking from a Professional Point of View
The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Italian Cuisine by The International Culinary Center, Cesare Casella, and Stephanie Lyness

Cooking from a Professional Point of View
Toqué! Creators of a New Quebec Gastronomy by Normand Laprise
WINNER
Indexed
IndexedGeneral Cooking
Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet
IndexedGeneral Cooking
What Katie Ate: Recipes and Other Bits & Pieces by Katie Quinn Davies

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
WINNER
IndexedFocus on Health
The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods by Sara Forte
IndexedFocus on Health
True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure by Sam Fox and Andrew Weil with Michael Stebner
IndexedInternational
Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid
IndexedInternational
Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by Maricel E. Presilla
IndexedInternational
Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
IndexedPhotography
Bouchon Bakery Photographer: Deborah Jones

Photography
Toqué! Creators of a New Quebec Gastronomy Photographer: Dominique Malaterre
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IndexedReference and Scholarship
101 Classic Cookbooks: 501 Classic Recipes by Marvin J. Taylor and Clark Wolf
IndexedReference and Scholarship
The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World by Sandor Ellix Katz
WINNER

Reference and Scholarship
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook by Anne Willan with Mark Cherniavsky and Kyri Claflin

Single Subject
Afield: A Chef’s Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish by Jesse Griffiths
IndexedSingle Subject
Modern Sauces: More than 150 Recipes for Every Cook, Every Day by Martha Holmberg
Indexed
Vegetable Focused and Vegetarian
Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer’s Market by Tama Matsuoka Wong with Eddy Leroux
IndexedVegetable Focused and Vegetarian
Herbivoracious: A Flavor Revolution, with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes by Michael Natkin
IndexedVegetable Focused and Vegetarian
Roots: The Definitive Compendium with More Than 225 Recipes by Diane Morgan
WINNER

Writing and Literature
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan

Writing and Literature
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance by Thomas McNamee
