James Beard Foundation honors chefs, restaurants, writers, photographers, and other key professionals for their excellence through the James Beard Awards. This year’s nominees across all these categories have been released by the Foundation, and the winners will be announced in June. This highly prestigious award offers the appreciation that the talented professionals deserve.
Highlights
- The James Beard Foundation has revealed nominees in multiple categories
- The 2025 James Beard Media Awards nominees were announced on May 7, 2025.
- Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism categories are included in the Media Awards.
James Beard Foundation Announced Nominees for Different Awards for Excellence
The James Beard Foundation was established in 1986 in honor of James Beard, an American chef, writer, and host. The foundation recognizes excellent talents in the culinary industry, whether it is restaurants, chefs, mixologists, or writers.
On May 7, 2025, the Foundation released its list of nominees for the James Beard Foundation Media Awards. Under this, cookbooks and nonfiction works in the food and beverage industry are identified and awarded for their excellence.
2025 James Beard Foundation Book Awards Categories
Under the Book awards, different types of cookbooks and nonfiction culinary-related books published in 2024 are included. The books should either be published in the U.S. or have a copyright for the U.S. Different categories of books for which nominees have been selected are listed below:
- Baking and Desserts
- Beverage with Recipes
- Beverage without Recipes
- Bread
- Food Issues and Advocacy
- General
- International
- Literary Writing
- Professional and Restaurant
- Single Subject
- Reference, History, and Scholarship
- U.S. Foodways
- Vegetable-Focused Cooking
- Visuals
2025 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Award Nominees
Nonfiction works related to food and beverages in the English language that appeared in any type of media for the first time in the U.S. in 2024 are included in this category. A list of subcategories is included further.
- Audio Programming
- Audio Reporting
- Commercial Media
- Documentary Visual Media
- Docuseries Visual Media
- Instructional Visual Media
- Social Media Account
- Travel Visual Media
2025 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award Nominees
The Journalism Award again includes the same criteria. The work must be nonfiction, the domain should be the culinary industry, and it must have been published in 2024. The type of works that are nominated can be categorized under the following:
- Beverage
- Columns and Newsletters
- Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award
- Dining and Travel
- Feature Reporting
- Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
- Foodways
- Health and Wellness
- Home Cooking
- Investigative Reporting
- Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
- MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
- Narrative Photography
- Personal Essay
- Personal Essay with Recipes
- Profile
The winners for the James Beard Foundation Media Awards under each category and subcategory will be announced on June 14, 2025. To go through the details of the Awards, visit the website. The tickets for the event are already available, and interested people are advised to book them now to not miss this opportunity!
