Only one chef from the Bay Area took home a James Beard medal last night.
to diversify the people involved in the judging process, prompting further changes before atmosphere returned to Chicago Monday night. And it was very Oscar-like, including a comedic cold-open monologue from chef and author Kwame Onwuachi that referenced Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock that took over the internet for a few days back in March.
One thing was quite different this year for the Bay Area, though — an unusually low number of nominees. In the last six years, the Bay Area has increased its number of nominees from 10 in 2016, to 17 in 2020. This year, though, a year where the “regional categories were … shuffled in order to recognize more chefs,” the Bay Area only had seven nominees. Three of the seven were nominated in the same category making it extra difficult for more Bay Area winners.Blair Heagerty / SFGateThis is not by any means to say that the Bay Area should have had more winners.
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