PALACE, TOWER TOP RECIPIENTS AT BEARD FOUNDATION AWARDS.Byline: Tom Sietsema Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, Washington, United States, the other being the Seattle Times. History The P-I, Seattle's first newspaper, was founded on December 10, 1863 as the Seattle Gazette The venerable Commander's Palace, a New Orleans home to gracious Southern hospitality and lusty lust·y adj. lust·i·er, lust·i·est 1. Full of vigor or vitality; robust. 2. Powerful; strong: a lusty cry. 3. Lustful. 4. Merry; joyous. Southern-Creole cooking, was named Outstanding Restaurant at the sixth annual James Beard Foundation Awards, the food world's version of the Oscars. A clearly surprised Jeremiah Tower of the glittery Stars restaurant in San Francisco received the Outstanding Chef Award during ceremonies recently. Having been nominated several times before without winning, Tower joked he had become ``the Susan Lucci of chefs,'' a reference to the soap-opera star whose annual pilgrimage to the Daytime Emmys always leaves her empty-handed. In other top categories: Douglas Rodriguez of the new-wave Latino restaurant Patria PATRIA. The country; the men of the neighborhood competent to serve on a jury; a jury. This word is nearly synonymous with pais. (.q.v.) in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of was named Rising Star Chef of the Year, an honor granted to a chef age 30 or younger. ``Flatbreads and Flavors: A Bakers Atlas,'' by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid (William Morrow & Co.; $30) won Cookbook of the Year. New York restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. Danny Meyer garnered Humanitarian of the Year honors for his work with charities such as City Harvest, Food & Hunger Hotline and Share Our Strength. Alan Wong of Alan Wong's in Honolulu won the Northwest Best Chef award. Other winners of regional Best Chef awards were: Thomas Keller of the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif.; Sanford D'Amato of Sanford Restaurant in Milwaukee; Chris Schlesinger of East Coast Grill/Blue Room in Cambridge, Mass; Guenter Seeger of the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta, Ga.; Roberto Donna of Galileo in Washington, D.C.; Jean-Georges Vongerichten of JoJo/Vong in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ; and Mark Miller of Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, N.M. Julia Child, whose appearance on stage brought about 1,500 guests to their feet, was presented with two awards: one for her cookbook ``In Julia Child's Kitchen With Master Chefs''; the other for her PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, series of the same name. One of the evening's highlights featured clips from Child's TV cooking shows, going back decades. Members of the audience roared as they watched a much-younger Child flip burned crepes and malfunctioning equipment into the trash, introduce a row of plucked chickens by name and don a raincoat to avoid getting splattered splat·ter v. splat·tered, splat·ter·ing, splat·ters v.tr. To spatter (something), especially to soil with splashes of liquid. v.intr. while making one dish. Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the nonprofit Beard Foundation celebrated the memory of James Beard, the Oregon native and self-styled dean of American cooking, who died at age 81 in 1985. To coincide with the anniversary of the first cookbook written by an American and published in America - Amelia Simmons' ``American Cookery,'' which appeared in 1796 - the ceremonies celebrated the recipes of 18 award-winning cookbook authors and chefs. |
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