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2026 James Beard Nominee

The James Beard Media Awards are one of the most prestigious honors in food literature, and highlight excellence in books, broadcast media, and journalism covering food or drink-related content. Learn more about the James Beard Foundation here.

Umma
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BOOKPLATE-SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE! Learn Korean cooking alongside social media star Sarah Ahn as her umma passes down 100+ family recipes and decades' worth of kitchen wisdom. Sarah Ahn’s viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational...
Umma : A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes

Sarah Ahn, Nam Soon Ahn

The Korean Vegan: Homemade
Joanne Molinaro, author of the New York Times Bestselling and James Beard Award Winning  Korean Vegan Cookbook, returns with fresh new dishes with Korean twists Joanne Molinaro is everyone’s favorite storytelling vegan cook. On her platform, The Korean Vegan, she’s known for her personal narrative voiceovers, which accompany mouthwatering videos of her...
The Korean Vegan: Homemade : Recipes and Stories from My Kitchen

Joanne Lee Molinaro

The Madrusan Cocktail Companion
The most ambitious cocktail companion ever published: 2800+ of the world's greatest drinks curated by the best in the business Welcome to The Madrusan Cocktail Companion, the impeccably comprehensive one-stop guide to classic drinks from every era, plus the best modern cocktails, curated by oracle Michael Madrusan with contributions from world-leading bartenders....
The Madrusan Cocktail Companion

Zara Madrusan, Michael Madrusan

Comida Casera
Discover delicious, plant-based Mexican recipes from a Culinary Institute of America-trained Mexican chef.When Dora Ramírez gave up eating animal-based foods, she worried that it meant giving up her favorite Mexican dishes. But once she started reinventing her favorite recipes, she realized that plant-based ingredients actually enhance the dishes. In Comida Casera, Dora...
Comida Casera : More Than 100 Vegan Recipes, from Traditional to Modern Mexican Dishes

Dora Ramírez (Ramirez)

Something from Nothing
Something from Nothing is Alison Roman’s latest book featuring over 100 deceptively simple, casually stylish, impossibly delicious recipes that make the most of your pantry.In Something from Nothing, New York Times bestselling author Alison Roman gives you a collection of simple, smart, timeless recipes that rely on a home cook's best kept secret:...
Something from Nothing : A Cookbook

Alison Roman

The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
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Bookplate-signed copies available!  Discover the centuries-old practices of Japanese pickling and fermenting, and learn to make delicious preserved vegetables at home.In The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting, preserving expert Yoko Nakazawa shares her lifelong passion of pickling and fermenting ingredients using age-old techniques that have been passed down the generations....
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting : Preserving vegetables and family traditions

Yoko Nakazawa

Cook Like a King
In her debut cookbook, Top Chef All-Stars champion and award-winning chef Melissa King shares 120 of her favorite dishes, blending her California sensibility with the Chinese cuisine of her childhood.From the moment she could see over the kitchen counter, King would spend hours in the kitchen with her mom. For King, the...
Cook Like a King : Recipes from My California Chinese Kitchen

Melissa King, with JJ Goode

Wine Pairing for the People
Signed copies now available! A first-of-its-kind guide to pairing wine with foods from Africa and beyond, including a tour of wine regions across the globe and a foreword by Stephen Satterfield, from renowned Certified Sommelier Cha McCoy. The wine world often says food and wine that grow together, go together,...
Wine Pairing for the People : The Communion of Wine, Food, and Culture from Africa and Beyond

Cha McCoy

Mali Bakes
Embark on a journey through cake making, the Mali Bakes way. This beautiful book is your ultimate guide to baking and decorating the cakes of your dreams! Start your adventures with simple cakes like apple and yuzu upside-down cake or Thai tea chiffon cake, before progressing to layer cakes in uniquely delicious...
Mali Bakes : Make and decorate the retro cakes of your dreams

Patti Chimkire

Eating Behind Bars
A 2026 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee in Food Issues and Advocacy A vivid exploration of the food crisis affecting millions of incarcerated Americans, Eating Behind Bars sheds new light on the power—and peril—of what’s on our plates “This eye-opening book will convince you that everyone—absolutely everyone—is deserving of nourishing food that...
Eating Behind Bars : Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison

Leslie Soble, Alex Busansky, Aishatu R. Yusuf, Impact Justice

The Last Sweet Bite
A powerful and heartwarming exploration of cuisine in conflict zones, highlighting the heroic persistence of people struggling to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violenceWar changes every part of human culture: art, education, music, politics. Why should food be any different? For nearly twenty years,...
The Last Sweet Bite : Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found

Michael Shaikh

Dal Chawal
A celebration of the two food categories—pulses and rice—that form the foundation of a traditional, homestyle Indian vegetarian diet. Dal Chawal celebrates traditional Indian comfort food through dal and rice, which together form the foundation of a homestyle Indian vegetarian diet. Dal is a Hindi word commonly used to describe all...
Dal Chawal : 85 Vegetarian Indian Recipes Combining the Power of Dal and Rice

Sapna Punjabi

Turtle Island
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Bookplate signed copies available! Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 150 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard Award–winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman.Growing up on South Dakota’s Pine...
Turtle Island : Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

Sean Sherman, with Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly

Kwéyòl / Creole
James Beard Award-winning chef Nina Compton shares recipes that tell the story of her thrilling culinary journey from St. Lucia to Jamaica, Miami, and New Orleans, and celebrate the diverse African heritage that threads these cuisines together.Growing up in St. Lucia, a small island in the Eastern Caribbean, chef Nina...
Kwéyòl / Creole : Recipes, Stories, and Tings from a St. Lucian Chef's Journey

Nina Compton, Osayi Endolyn

House of Nanking
From a beloved San Francisco culinary landmark, a showstopper cookbook that honors a family legacy and celebrates ingredient-driven, multi-regional Chinese cooking in America.Since it opened in 1988, House of Nanking has been a popular spot for countless tourists, honeymooners, celebrities, and everyday San Franciscans who have lined up—for decades—for their...
House of Nanking : Family Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite Chinese Restaurant

Kathy Fang, Peter Fang

Flavour Heroes
Flavour-packed dishes celebrating 15 essential pantry ingredients "Gurdeep makes things simple: he shows that with a well-stocked pantry and an open mind, ingredients can transport you anywhere you want to go. This book is full of flavour and practical ideas for every cook." – Yotam OttolenghiFlavour Heroes is a collection of...
Flavour Heroes : 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking

Gurdeep Loyal

By Heart
Learn to make elevated, professional-quality meals in your own kitchen with over 100 creative, seasonal recipes from Hailee CatalanoGrowing up cooking the Sunday gravy, meatballs, and pasta alongside her Italian American grandmother, Hailee Catalano developed a huge passion for food. This passion led her to the Culinary Institute of America,...
By Heart : Recipes to Hold Near and Dear

Hailee Catalano

Dobre Dobre
Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120+ recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.Poland’s distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to...
Dobre Dobre : Baking from Poland and Beyond

Laurel Kratochvila

Tequila Wars
Paperback edition A revelatory history of the vast tequila empire born from the fires of the Mexican Revolution. At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family’s humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise...
Tequila Wars : José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico

Ted Genoways

Homemade Ramen
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Bookplate signed copies now available Like pizza or hamburgers, ramen is a bundle of traditions, conventions, cultural trends, proscriptions, and strong opinions. In his debut cookbook, Japanese American food writer Sho Spaeth offers insight into those traditions, elucidates core techniques, and demonstrates how to make a range of different ramen...
Homemade Ramen

Sho Spaeth

Russ & Daughters
From the legendary New York destination for Jewish appetizing, a beautiful and inspiring cookbook that encompasses history, tradition, and absolutely delicious food. In 1907, a Jewish immigrant named Joel Russ landed in New York City, where he took a pushcart of herring and built a legacy that would pass down...
Russ & Daughters : 100 Years of Appetizing Smoked Fish - Caviar - Bagels - Bakery & More

Niki Russ Federman, Josh Russ Tupper, Joshua David Stein

Dirty Kitchen (paperback)
In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America.Jill Damatac left the United States in 2015 after living there as an...
Dirty Kitchen (paperback) : A Memoir of Food and Family

Jill Damatac

Dirty Kitchen
In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America.Jill Damatac left the United States in 2015 after living there as an...
Dirty Kitchen : A Memoir of Food and Family

Jill Damatac

THAI
Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere is the highly anticipated cookbook from culinary sensation and Australian MasterChef winner Nat Thaipun. A celebration of her Thai Australian heritage and global culinary adventures, this vibrant and delicious collection of recipes brings Thai cuisine to home kitchens everywhere with an approachable twist.  Nat’s love for Thai...
THAI : Anywhere and Everywhere

Nat Thaipun