Without any Restaurant and Chef Awards, a series of presentations hammered home the desire to keep restaurants 'Open for Good'
.) Instead, the September 25 live Twitter broadcast was held to honor the nominees and previous award winners in categories like Leadership, Lifetime Achievement, and America’s Classics.
The evening began with an address from James Beard Foundation CEO Clare Reichenbach, who acknowledged the unusual circumstances of the evening: “We recognize this shift is a disappointment to many,” she noted, before outlining the Foundation’s efforts to support the restaurant industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is our collective duty to do all we can to get restaurants through this,” she said.
Reichenbach handed off the ceremony to its host, Chicago media personality Ji Suk Yi, who stood on a real stage, as she made it clear that the Foundation needed to fulfill its contract with the Chicago tourism board. It was a recurring theme: Throughout the night, Yi highlighted Tweets commenting on the broadcast; they appeared on a screen behind her and many appeared to be pre-Tweeted messages from sponsors.
In the weeks leading up to the non-ceremony this year, the James Beard Awards encountered a problem when, and the Foundation’s commitment to do better by this community was another prominent theme of the awards. Near the beginning of the broadcast, James Beard VP of community Colleen Vincent and chef Sean Sherman re-announced the Foundation’s newest initiative: the James Beard Foundation
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