The Philadelphia food scene is in the spotlight again after several big wins at the 2023 James Beard Awards!
Philadelphia natives, husband and wife Chad and Hanna Williams, won the Outstanding Restaurant award during the ceremony at the Lyric Opera House.The Philadelphia food scene is now in the spotlight again after several big wins at the 2023 James Beard Awards in Chicago.Philadelphia natives, husband and wife Chad and Hanna Williams, won the Outstanding Restaurant award during the ceremony at the Lyric Opera House.
"I fell in love with this industry when I was a teenager, but it took me 25 years to realize a restaurant was the first place that I felt a true sense of belonging," Yin said. "To Philadelphia, you made me belong. Your ongoing commitment fostered a world class restaurant scene that represents our diversity, ethnicity, history and resiliency."
Co-hosts of the show were Eric Adjepong, Esther Choi, Andrew Zimmern and Gail Simmons, who apologized at the top of the show for being part of a combative and off-putting tone set by reality TV cooking shows that created "a generation of total monsters" who then went to restaurants with proclamations such as "that ramp butter needs more acid" and used the term "flavor profile.
Sherry Pocknett of Sly Fox Den Too in Charlestown, Rhode Island, became the first Indigenous woman to win a James Beard.Showcasing the influence of the awards, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made appearances at the broadcast.The nonprofit James Beard Foundation was established more than 30 years ago, shortly after "pioneer foodie" James Beard's death, "to celebrate, support and elevate the people behind America's food culture.
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