#Shanti Carson

[genevieveetguy]

It's just like the 60's. Only with less hope.

Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell (2006)

[alias-milamber]

Today I completed a Blades in the Dark campaign

Lessons learned:

Blades in the Dark isn't great for a short story-focused campaign

BitD works well for a single-session or a long campaign with the territory/growth rules it defines, less well for short campaigns

Even when I think I'm making a short campaign, it might last a year.

Full improvisation is fun, but if you don't take notes you'll goozle yourself.

"Your Theorycrafting about the nature of the plot is entirely correct" is a vicious Devil's Bargain

As is "I'm not going to tell you, but it gets you two dice"

Write a vague prophetic dream, and use the details later to make them pay attention when you need to.

You can build an entire year long arc on the stupid pun "the bad guy is called Carson. He wants to turn everyone into crabs"

"He wants the whole world in his claws, the shellfish bastard"

A shop full of monkeys-paw magical artifacts that you improvise on the fly is like catnip to players.

Keep a list of random threads you haven't looped back to. Don't bother to check them off, things can mean two things.

If in doubt, add more cultists.

If in doubt, venetian masks.

If in doubt, add an NPC's mirror-verse twin.

"Everyone gets nightmares about being shelled and covered in Mary-rose sauce."

Three handouts:

A Dream Of Seafood

(after a player has eaten of the sacred flesh, disguised as a prawn vol-au-vent)

The world is cold and wet, and you like it that way. The sandy floor below you, the stars above, as it has always been and will always be. In the distance you hear the song of the leviathans, cutting through the ocean water like bagpipes over a mountain hillside. The words mean nothing to you, their song as alien as yours would be to them.

You do not sing your song, sound isn't what you're made for. You are, you see, you feed, you eat.

You obey.

The sandy floor rises up below you in ribbons - you never even process the net that has caught you. Your life flashes before your eyes, hits this moment, and goes beyond into the future.

You see the world above the ocean briefly, before darkness. The smell of wood and others for a long time, and a long descent into clean water. The water scalds and burns, and the life life leaves you, without your presence going with it.

You haunt the flesh of yourself as your shell is peeled back from you. A bath of pink sauce and a bed of puff pastry. Music, and strange people.

A mouth, and darkness.

And despair.

A Dream Of Shellfishness

(The first character to atune to a sacred artifact)

Within your dream you awake. You are underwater, and this seems oppressive and terrifying until you realise that you're breathing the water without difficulty, and then it just seems oppressive and differently terrifying. You breathe in brine, it fills your lungs and then you breathe out again, and beyond your initial panic, a deeper worry sets in.

You are surrounded by stars, refracted by a perfectly clear sea. Above and below you, constellations unrecognised, twinkling gently in the pitch black night. A moving black patch above you can only be a leviathan, its gigantic form gliding through the pitch black sea like a bird of prey. Behind it, the keel of a hunting ship disrupts the surface with its infernal motorised screw engine spinning to try to keep up, but the monstrous creature swims away with no apparent concern. Around you is a barnacle encrusted cage, glowing runes engraved on a wooden frame that you somehow know cannot be broken, even by you.

That's no mean feat, you discover, as a sense of scale kicks in and your perspective shifts. You realise that you could hold that leviathan in the palm of your hand, should you be able to break the cage that surrounds you. You beat against the bars soundlessly, unheard and imperceptable.

A voice, a sound like the antithesis of music, and you see one of the glowing runes go dark on your prison.

Vengeance will be won.

The Crab God's Shanty

(To the tune of the work song from Les Mis)

We sit, we row. Fourty fathoms low. We sail, wind blow, Forty Fathoms Low.

We load cargo, Forty fathoms low, We lift, we stow, Forty fathoms low

The stars, they glow, Forty fathoms low, The tide will flow, Forty fathoms low.

The deep, plateau, Forty fathoms low We see, he know Forty fathoms low.

The undertow, Forty fathoms low, Will make us go, Forty fathoms low

He speaks, bestow, Forty fathoms low, We feed, he grows, Forty fathoms low.

Our life, forgo, Forty fathoms low, The world will know, Thirty fathoms low.

Give up, let go, Twenty fathoms low, He rise shadow, Now ten fathoms low.

He rises slow, Just five fathoms low, Yo ho, heave ho. Claws at your ship bow.

[beelzaarts]

(here have some animatronic redesigns for an au i have in mind-)

(starting off):

Freddy:

(human: Thomas Wilson, 34) has a sort of "leader mentality" loves to sing A bit oblivious. careful around children.

Chica:

(human Gloria Hanson, 38)

"the oldest" professional chef Party planner w/ Bonnie Loves throwing parties for the children has multiple outfits

Bonnie:

(Human: Robert Hanson, 37)

He and chica are a party planning duo Loves playing guitar Rule enforcer loves telling stories

Foxy:

(human: Fritz Martin, 34)

Loves recounting pirate storys Loves singing sea shanties very careful around children

(now for the toys)

(the toys were originally in their late/early teens)

Toy freddy:

(human: Lional Carson, 16)

"ringleader" A Big softie Loves singing very caring A Little oblivious

Toy Chica:

(human: Melanie Callahan, 17)

Loves baking party planner w/ toy bonnie sassy

Marionette:

(human: Octavia Burton, 13)

(i made a small mistake)

Keeps a close eye on the children Rule enforcer Protective Sneaky Soft Wants revenge

[emilybeemartin]

Anyway, I also like sea shanties.

---Me, trying to stay relevant in January 2021

[heroesandlovers]

Nancy Drew 2x02 "The Reunion of the Lost Souls"

Trying slightly new structure. Often the different plots of each episode are so entertwined that it's hard to just follow one character rather than chronological but sometimes it DOES make it easier to write. Here I've tried to group by overall plot and then subplots. Hopefully it makes sense? Also trying a new section called "Aceisms" because...well....

Main plot

The Drew Crew find Hannah who is tracing gravestones in the cemetery (Do we ever find out what she was doing? Updating her records maybe).

They all comment how they haven’t slept in XX hours. Nick points out he still doesn’t even have a place to stay.

Nancy says distractedly- “You can stay with me. Carson moved out”.

Nick gets a deer in headlights face and glances at George who says “Yeah, you should totally stay with Nancy”

So, the mirror pointed them to a sea shanty that will hold the story of the Aglaeca’s life. Hannah finds where there was a single recording of the sea shanty by a dude named Mac... who they track down to a bar.

Unfortunately, “Johnny Mac” was hit by a semi 40 years ago. Nancy points out that people being dead doesn’t necessarily preclude them from talking to them. They try to get some of his belongings so they can try and "call" him.

So…Nancy, Bess, and Nick are all staying together. Nick is visited by a nighttime visitor who wants a drink. Nick recalls the same guy at the Marvin’s party. Somehow, Nancy figures out that this is actually “Johnny Mac”. He appears to Nick because he reminds him of his black friend Buddy (🙄). They try to find some info about the orphanage he grew up in but can’t get anywhere.

Nancy: “We’re just gonna have to consult a professional”- SHE RESPECTS ACE’S BRAIN SO MUCH.

It’s not Ace’s hacking skills that find the orphanage though. He learns from Carson about Fernwood (OMG HOW DID I NOT REMEMBER THAT THIS IS WHERE THEY FIRST FIND THE ORPHANAGE THAT WAS SO PROMINENT IN S3?)

Fernwood is sus. It looks like it was literally just…abandoned. They find a picture of Johnny..and Nancy realizes she has seen all of the people in this photo (how insane that some of this was already planted in S1).

Well done writers...

The team figures out that all of the people in the picture died the same day. They had all been cursed by the Aglaeca. BUT…one person doesn’t seem to be reported dead…until they find a body upstairs in the orphanage.

But…the body isn’t the missing person in the photo…it’s Buddy. The one guy who apparently knew where the Sea Shanty record was. The Crew figures out that Buddy must have hid the record at the bar. Playing the sea shanty brings all the ghosts back…but then they just vanish.

Ace analyzes the record and is able to isolate a French woman singing.

“Hear the truth. I was no man’s wife.

They stole my fortune and took my life.

My chaperone betrayed me. The captain moved against me.

Now you ask of me but do not pay my toll.

So seven days later, I’ll come for your soul

Sending omens beyond your wildest fear.

Finally this song, the last you ever hear”

So…the Crew now know that they have seven days. And they’ve already used four. THEY HAVE THREE DAYS LEFT.

The Crew go to the cemetery to Mac’s grave. They find flowers left at the grave of all the Aglaeca victims. And they realize…the sixth person in that photo is still alive. And must know how to beat the Agleaca.

Ace and Carson

Ace comes across Carson and helps him carry the futon into his new…loft? Carson asks Ace to watch out for Nancy “Make sure she eats”. Ace interacting with Carson is so precious to me idk why.

He continues to help Carson get settled. And then he asks Carson to tell him his side of the story. “Help me understand why you did what you did”

Carson says that he was afraid telling Nancy the truth would mean he’d lose her. Change the family dynamic. I think this is a somewhat more selfish take than I would have thought of Carson. In S1, I genuinely got the vibe that his primary motivation was to protect Nancy. I think both are likely true.

Nancy catches Ace helping Carson. It’s a lovely scene. Nancy is again vulnerable with Ace. asking why Carson, for 19 years, didn’t tell her the truth. Ace is on her side. She’s right. But Ace also knows, that with the Aglaeca and their own mortality staring them in the face (literally sometimes), that Nancy may want to let Carson back in.

Nick and Nancy

“Guess we skipped the friend part the first time around. Yeah I guess we skipped over a lot of things”

Enough said. It makes me sad how sad their relationship seems to make them sometimes.

Nick and his Mom

Nick’s Mom is in town. But it’s not just for a visit. She wants him to come home..it’s been two years.

George and Nick’s Mom the “birdbrain tourist” didn’t exactly hit it off great. George is super awkward the whole episode around his Mom for much of the episode. But ultimately, George telling Nick’s Mom that she’s the perfect one to protect him. OK I SHIP IT. Also YES to the nickname Vicious for George.

I do love that Nick didn’t even hesitate to introduce George as his girlfriend (even though they haven’t told the Drew Crew yet? Or just Nancy?)

Welp, I guess Nancy knows about George and Nick now.

Aceisms

"$874? We should have brought Nick"

"Mr. D I think the guy at the store lied to you."

"My Mom spearheaded the changeover to CDs. I objected."

“Ma’am we also have lobsters. We have blueberries”

"The Aglaeca. Class of 1975 Reunion”

[storybook-lili]

I’ve been re-reading Gail Carson Levine’s book Fairest for an assignment, which is set in the fictional kingdom of Ayortha, where music and singing is an important and key part of the kingdom’s culture. As such, it’s inspired me to make a post about my OC’s skills and experiences with music and singing.

Note: To better express Tara’s bigender identity, I will now be switching Tara’s pronouns every so often between she/her and he/him. I may make a post later on how I’m going to do this, but this is for anyone who are confused as to why Tara is now suddenly being referred here with masculine pronouns.

Etain Amell: She can’t sing. At all. Don’t ask her to sing, we beg you. If you value your hearing, you would avoid listening to her sing at all costs. Why use magic to defeat the darkpawn, when she could just wipe them all out with her singing? We don’t need Solas to destroy Thedas, Etain could do that just by singing. Please don’t ask her sing. P l e a s e.

She has absolutely no talent or knowledge in music, but to be fair, why would she? She’s lived in a Circle her almost her whole life, her time dedicated to her magical studies. Who has time to study something so trivial like music? She also tends to hate being in or near noisy areas, so she’s not a big fan of loud music. She does like listening to Leliana playing the lute once in a while, of course.

Tara Hawke: Everyone is always surprised when they first hear Tara’s singing, which is a beautiful, smoky alto. He’s able to express the emotions of a song very well, especially when the song is bitter or melancholic.

Leandra gave him some training when she realized he had a gift for singing, but otherwise he’s never been professionally trained in music. He can kind of read music sheets, but mostly just sings based on memory. Aside from singing, he can’t play any other musical instruments.

Kallen Lavellan: While she doesn’t have a grand or illustrious voice, Kallen’s singing is no less pleasant or comforting to listen to. Her singing voice is soft and silvery, and she’s able to sing fairly high if she puts enough effort into it. She prefers to sing in a group over solo, since she finds singing much more fun when in good company.

Her close friend, Iyo, had a far better singing voice, as well write her own music. Because Kallen always forgot the lyrics of a song, Iyo developed a unique style of singing for Kallen where the singer only had to sing the vowels of a song. It works well for Kallen, since she preferred singing with long vowels over consonants.

She can also play the ocarina, having been given her late-grandmother’s old one when she was little. She’ll sometimes separate herself from her clan or party and just play by a river, pond, or the sea. She’s probably a better ocarina player than singer.

Alaia Shepard: Her singing is only slightly better than her dancing, but that’s not much of a compliment. It’s not terrible, but it’s not great either. She’s never expressed interest in singing or music, so she possesses no musical talents or knowledge whatsoever.

Chloe Ryder: She has a perfectly nice singing voice, having a typical indie-girl style of singing. Singers like Amanda Palmer and Alanis Morissette had a big influence in the kind of music Chloe likes to listen to and play.

She’s self-taught in the guitar, and brought her acoustic guitar with her to the Andromeda Galaxy. She’s by not means a perfect guitarist, but she still enjoys playing and prefers playing her guitar over singing.

Also, have this funny comic of Chloe performing for Vetra I did a few years ago, lol.

Saga Peg’asi: ‘Beautiful’ doesn’t even come close to describing Saga’s singing. She has an alluring, almost ethereal singing voice that captures anyone within earshot. At the palace, Nerissa would refer to her as the ‘sirena of the stars’, while the crew of the Andromeda Six sometimes refer to her as the ‘space siren’. She likes to sing sea shanties when it's her turn to clean the ship, although sometimes she has to be scolded by Calderon to get back on track.

Along with singing, Saga is trained to play other musical instruments, but her favourite instruments are the harp, lyre, and kutiyapi. She had an especially beautiful harp back the palace that she loved to play, which she misses dearly. While she can’t have a harp on the Andromeda Six, she was able to obtain a small lyre that she’ll play in her room.

While Saga disliked most of her tutoring, she always looked forward to her music lessons. At the palace, she spent more time in the music room than anywhere else and would either sing and play instruments there, or sing on the balcony of her bedroom to herself. Sadly, no one but Nerissa showed interest or pride over Saga’s musical talents, but Saga was content with just performing for Nerissa. Nerissa would often request Saga to sing her favourite, “The Cost of the Crown”.

Music not only brought her joy, but she could express her feelings more clearly in her singing than any other way. It’s tied so tightly to her identity, that she feels she wouldn’t be herself without it. When she lost her memory after being rescued by the A6 crew, her songs were the first memories to resurface, and she would sing them to herself while exploring the ship.

Dana De Sardet: Her singing is fine, but it’s not one of her finest traits. Her singing can be best described as “technically competent”, but lacks real emotion or style. She was taught some basic music lessons when she was a child, but she’s always been more interested in science and medicine than art and music.

While she has no real love for singing or playing music herself, she enjoys listening to Constantin play or sing. Whether he’s actually musically talented is a matter of opinion, but she likes how enthusiastic and immersed he gets when performing, and always stops what she’s doing when he does.

[janesramblings]

Hey i like your Nace analysis, could you compare each time Nancy has panicked with something that has happened to any of the Drew Crew? And tell me what you think makes it different with Ace.

Hi! Thank you and yes I can. There have been moments with every member with the Drew Crew at this point I think so here we are:

The first one was George. She was possessed by Tiffany and Nancy’s first reaction was... get answers? Like, she just wanted to speed through the murder solving process and Tiffany was her answer. Obviously, there was animosity between her and George and she backed down after the “only a few hours and then George dies” thing, but not until she saw the way George lived and realized that she was the breadwinner for the family. I really think she saw George as a pawn in that moment more than a person, and it wasn’t until the reality check of the way George’s younger sisters lived that she understood the gravity of her situation. Also, she was so willing to mess up George’s reputation since Tiffany acted like she was still married to Ryan. She must have known how scarring a relationship with an older man was for George and she was ready to exploit that.

And then there was the drama with the Marvins and Bess. Understandably, Nancy was sort of not present since she was, you know, kidnapped. But afterwards, she seemed to brush past Bess’s pain. I mean, Ace was the one who ended up staying with Bess, even though they were both in Nancy’s house. And she could have been really influential with getting Bess back into the family. The Marvins don’t seem to mind her, especially since she was getting justice for the Bonny Scott crew. If she’d just explained to Aunt Diana what had happened, I’m sure Diana would have understood. Also, Nancy never followed up on the Lisbeth stuff? She really could have given Bess a shoulder to lean on there. Especially since you could argue that Nancy was partially responsible.

And when Nick lost his memory, Nancy bailed. I mean, like, straight up left everyone at her house and dealt with her own stuff. Obviously, Ryan made it sound really dramatic and it was, I mean Celia is dangerous, but she really could have been a little more helpful. Especially since Carson was representing Nick. And when that guy was trying to kill Nick because he thought he was the bartender that hid the sea shanty whatever (I’ve literally already forgotten what it was) she again used Nick to further her investigation, like she did with George when she was possessed. Even though Nick was clearly about to be killed.

Which is where she was so different in 2x12. That entire episode, she had her own stuff to deal with, just like she did when Bess was kicked out of her family and when Nick lost his memory (I mean lets be honest she was really only invested when she herself lost her memories). But the biggest difference was that she pushed that aside. She was at the food festival with Celia but she didn’t say a word to her. She was there with Ryan too, still nothing was said. Because she was entirely focused on Grant and Ace. And when Daniel West was talking about the Road Back and the Holt Group, you could see her gears turning, you could see how invested she was. But she didn’t ask any more questions, because unlike when Tiffany possessed George, she wasn’t invested in the mystery. She was invested in saving Ace. She gave the names away in a heartbeat, she gave up the answers to something she knew she wanted to solve, to save his life. 

And I think that’s the biggest difference. Nancy doesn’t want to solve mysteries and figure stuff out when it comes to Ace, because those things are to be done with Ace, not at the expense of Ace. Which is why there was not a lot of mystery solving per say in this episode. Because she was so focused on making sure he was okay. She doesn’t use him as a pawn. She never has, and frankly, she never will. 

[see-arcane]

Ok I love the teacher au so much and just A. the discovery that the cryptid in tweed also apparently was the lead singer of concept band in college B. The teachers discovering him doing dramatic readings of creepypasta at lunch C. I don't know if England has anything like the DARE program but Daisy walks into class one day, says don't do drugs, and walks out. None of the students ever do drugs after that encounter.

A. “No. No, no, no, I’m calling bullshit, he can’t be Jonny fucking d’Ville on top of everything else. I won’t buy it.”

Before her friend can carry on with the article, they hear ‘Jonny’ drop into a few verses from “Pump Shanty” right behind them. They jump and whirl around to see Mr. Sims strolling away, pretending to sip his coffee.

B. Mr. Sims is a walking coat rack as it is, and Mrs. Cartwright is worried. They tell her not to bother. Mr. Sims is an oddball, so it’s safe to assume that maybe he has a reason to not be around when everyone else is having the midday break.

“Probably nibbling on a heart somewhere,” Mr. Carson, the gym coach hums over his sandwich, “Or maybe he does that psychic vampire thing where he eats your brain.”

“Or,” says Ms. Wendell over her microwaved takeout, “the guy has dietary issues. My cousin’s got a liquid diet thing that makes her look like a stick. It happens. Don’t worry about him, Viv.”

“I’m telling you,” Mr. Carson goes on, smiling around his rye, “He’s having a fresh brain right now. Has to keep his X-Men powers all fed up.”

“If that’s the case, I’m sure you’re the safest person here.”

Mrs. Cartwright leaves them as they throw napkins and plastic cutlery at each other like they’re their students’ age. She brings half her own meal with her, determined to leave some solid food with the scrawny oddity of Mr. Sims. 

Because, yes, he is odd, but in a way that reminds her of her grandson. A brilliant boy, but so, so forgetful about taking care of himself. Sometimes he passed out in his room, still working on a program or a new gadget because he’d skipped eating and sleeping for a couple days. 

So she looks for Mr. Sims.

And finds him only by pure accident. He’d not been in his classroom. Or the cafeteria. Or any other empty room. No, she spotted him outdoors, leaning like a scarecrow in the shade of an equipment shed. Mrs. Cartwright went out to him. Sneaking a smoke break, maybe? No.

No.

He doesn’t notice her even when she calls to him twice. He’s absorbed in a handful of papers he’s leafing through. It’s a stationery she doesn’t recognize beyond the header at the top. The Magnus Institute. 

Yes, she’s heard the gossip. Yes, she’s aware of the Work-Related Accident meme the kids are passing around. She doesn’t puzzle over it long. Not when she can hear Mr. Sims reciting the awful, gruesome story printed on those sheets.

Narrating it as if he were the poor, doomed man in its lines. The witness to the terrifying fate of his best friend at the hands of...of a thing that has no place being described so clearly. So much so that she can see it in her mind. 

She can feel its touch melting into her skin, spoiling it like bad meat. All of her that is not bone begins to soften and melt and fall away in rotten, putrid chunks...

“--Statement ends. ...Oh. Oh, God, Vivian! Mrs. Cartwright, can you hear me?”

She does. At some point the bagged leftovers had fallen from her hands. Mr. Sims scoops it up and tries to hand it back to her. She takes it back gingerly, as if the cold meatloaf inside--she shudders now, thinking of meat--is somehow tainted.

“Y-You--what was that?”

“A, ah, guilty pleasure,” he says, and looks truly, deeply guilty. “Playing Vincent Price.”

He hadn’t sounded like Vincent Price. He’d sounded like a man describing the liquefaction of his best friend’s flesh while the poor bastard’s skeleton continued to scream and live against its will. 

“You have a talent,” is all she can think to say. She walks away with her meatloaf and tosses it into the bin before heading back inside. She starts a vegetarian diet the next day.

C. The Beast that was once Daisy Tonner has been following the scent for days. Slow in the day, faster at night. Her quarry waits out here somewhere. Prey? Not prey? She has trouble remembering, sometimes. She knows she had wanted him to die once. Then a thing had happened. Crushing, crunching. The quarry had found her there. The quarry had freed her. 

Quarry still? Or Pack? The other one, the one chasing her, the one who is something important--she cannot remember the word ‘love’--had been the only one she considered Pack before. But the quarry changed that. Quarry was weak. Quarry should not be on his own. Quarry had to fix this. Make things quiet again.

So she Hunts. She finds his scent everywhere here, a ground he walks day after day. She doesn’t know that this day is a Saturday and that he will not be here now. She is deciding between laying in wait for an ambush or following the trail to where he lives when she smells smoke. 

A cluster of young things, passing something between each other, puffing. 

Just enough of Daisy Tonner remains in the Beast to be incensed at such young things falling into the habit. She hadn’t liked when--Jon? Was it Jon?--did it either. The Beast is simply not a fan of the stink. It hurts her nose. 

The Beast takes a slight detour from the Hunt to politely insist they kill such a habit immediately and permanently. 

For their health.

[shadowq75]

most important information about “Trolls 3″ [ please read to the end! ]

Hi to all!

There is already the first informations about "Trolls 3"!

the first important information is it: The release date will take place on July 10, 2024 and the first trailer is expected to appear on December 20, 2020.

second important information concerns the plot of the film ( what will happen, what we will be able to see in the fairy tale ).

and we will be able to see in a fairy tale such things as: The Wedding of Branch and Poppy, Their Children [ Children - pay attention to the plural ] with the names Aloe, Lily and a child created by the fandom - Willow. And the sweetest thing in the world - Branch's meeting with his parents. Everything will take place when the oldest of the children - Willow - is almost grown up - The branch and Poppy will be around 30 years old And the whole story will start with the aforementioned wedding. It is not yet known what the other two children and parents of the main character will look like.

New characters will appear such as:

Neck ( Pop Troll ) - Tom Hanks Grass ( It is not known what origin ) - Cody Carson Scout  ( Rock Troll ) - Brendon Urie Berry (  It is not known what origin ) - JinJoo Lee Dart (  It is not known what origin ) - Iain Alexander Marr Ivan ( A new type of Troll - Shanties Troll ) -  Kevin McNally Cerry (  It is not known what origin ) - Amy Sheppard Starling ( Rock Troll ) - Rebel Wilson Lotus ( Hip-Hop Troll ) - Brittany Snow Captain Mercy ( Shanties Troll ) -  Lindsey Stirling Briar ( It is not known what origin ) - Andy Grammer Liam ( Reggaeton Troll ) -  Ben El Tavori Johny ( It is not known what origin ) -  Keanu Reeves Willow ( Pop troll ) - Hailee Steinfeld Lily ( Pop Troll ) -  Cathy Ang Aloe ( Pop Troll ) -  Levi Miller

No more information about the cast.

Third information:

In the fairy tale there will be such iconic hits as:

Rick Astley | Never gonna give you up - sung in a fairy tale by Branch.

Daniel Powter | Bad Day  - which Branch also sings.

Irish Rovers | Drunken Sailor - sung by Troll from shanties music, in a more child-friendly version

Deorro x Chris Brown |  Five More Hours - song at the beginning of the fairy tale ( in Trollstopia )

Kris Kross | Jump - in the land of Hip-Hop Trolls

Miley Cyrus | Party In The U.S.A. - Poppy will sing it along with the other (new) Trolls

Olly Murs ( ft. Snoop Dogg ) | Moves - Branch sings, trying to impress Poppy and defeat the Troll who tries to seduce her

What will the plot be like?

It all starts with a flashback of the wedding of the main characters. And the opening song in Trollstopia [Five More Hours], where we meet the children Branch and Poppy for the first time. The squad will have nightmares and various flashbacks (from childhood). He will be reminded of the place where he was born and he will decide to find it. He leaves the house at night, but Poppy knew Branch was up to something and was waiting for him in one of the rooms by the exit. They decide to go on an adventure together, leaving the children in the care of Willow (writing on the card: take care of Lily and Aloes) just this. By the way, Branch and Poppy meet the evil pirates, but the captain is Mercy, who knows Branch and offers to help him. It is later revealed that she brought Branch's to the Pop Troll Village. He would be in danger otherwise.

Who is Branch really? We'll find out in “Trolls 3″ - “Trolls Lost World”.

And now the most important information about this fairy tale:

This is all joke and nonsense, and there is currently no specific information regarding "Trolls 3".

Have a nice day! :)

[yogaadvise]

Yoga lingo for beginners

* one is a yoga exercise posture, the other is a fried burrito

If you're brand-new to yoga (or even if you're not), you may have heard words in class that you don't recognise. It may feel like your instructor is talking in a language you've never heard ... in truth, they are. The language of yoga is Sanskrit which is the root of numerous Indian languages and also in reality among the earliest of all human languages.

If, like me, you have actually had the experience of being advised to 'engage your Mula Bandha', or to 'lift and spread your sit bones' yet not having a clue what they are, right here is a general glossary of some of things you might hear in your yoga course (due to the fact that let's face it, holding tree pose is testing enough, without attempting to identify what Vrksasana is!)

Let's start with the most obvious one ...

1. Yoga

- to 'yoke' or 'bind' - usually interpreted as 'union' (the union of breath, body as well as mind).

2. Asana

- actually converts as 'seat' - yet the much more modern interpretation of words signifies physical positions or poses.

3. Bandha

- internal muscular 'locks' that, when engaged, sustain the toning as well as lifting of tactical areas of the body. The 3 significant bandhas are:

Mula Bandha - the pelvic floor muscles

Uddiyana Bandha - the abdominals approximately the diaphragm

Jalandhara Bandha - the throat

Learn more: The Bandhas - protecting against yoga injuries

4. Chakra

- indicating 'wheel' - energy centres in the body located in between the base of the spine as well as the top of the head.

We have seven - Sanskrit names remain in brackets

the origin - (Muladhara), base of the spine

the sacral (Svadhisthana) - reduced abdomen

solar plexus (Manipura) - top abdomen

heart (Anahata) - centre of the chest

throat (Vishuddha) - throat area

third eye (Ajna) - forehead, between the eyebrows

crown (Sahasrara) - the really leading of the head

For EkhartYoga members: Chakra series programme

5. Chaturanga

- 4 limbed staff pose or reduced slab, needs arm, shoulder as well as core strength.

Learn more: Chaturanga - the four-limbed staff pose

EkhartYoga members: Desire an excellent Chaturanga? - here's some homework!

6. Core

- typically believed of as the abdominal muscle mass. It's even more precise to believe of it like an apple core, running from the top of your head to the inner arcs of your feet.

Learn more: Core stamina in your yoga practice

EkhartYoga members: Gentle strengthening of the core

7. Down pet (Adho Mukha Svanasana)

- among the most typical yoga exercise poses, like an upside down 'V' shape.

Learn more: Posture of the week - downward facing dog

EkhartYoga members: Downward dealing with pet deconstructed - boost your down encountering pet with the aid of the wall, chair as well as obstructs - 40 min, all degree class with Adela Serrano

8. Drishti

- prime focus of gazing throughout meditation or yoga technique (beneficial during balancing presents!)

EkhartYoga members: Basics of yoga - factor of focus - concentrate your mind by concentrating the look - 40 min, Hatha course, all levels with Adela Serrano

9. Hatha

- referred to as yoga exercise for the physique. In Sanskrit, 'Ha' stands for sunlight and also 'tha' stands for moon. Hatha is the fundamental style of yoga exercise that forms the basis for most styles of yoga, frequently used to define slower-paced classes without any flow to them.

Learn more: Hatha yoga explained

10. Mantra

- a word, audio or expression repeated either aloud (shouting) or in the mind - stated to increase concentration while meditating.

Learn more: Concept as well as vibration - a magnificent path to union

11. Mudra

- a hand placement/ gesture utilized to help concentration, focus and also link to on your own throughout your reflection and also asana technique. The most common are Anjali (pressing palms with each other at the heart) as well as Jnana (pronounced nyah-nah) (forefinger and also thumb touching to develop a circle, the other 3 fingers extending away)

EkhartYoga members: An introduction to mudras - Improve the benefits of yoga exercise by presenting Mudra to your practice - 15 min class with Francesca Giusti

12. Nadi

- the power networks through which prana or life force flows. Pranayama uses the breath to route and expand the circulation of prana in our power networks - the nadis.

Learn more: Pranayama - the benefits

13. Namaste

- about meaning 'the light within me acquiesces the light within you' and also normally claimed at the end of a yoga course, bowing the head with palms compressed at the heart.

14. Om

- (A-U-M) - a concept generally chanted at the start and also end of yoga classes - a tiny word with a plethora of significances - stated to be the origin of all audios and the seed of creation. Frequently priced estimate as the 'universal audio of awareness'.

EkhartYoga members: Whatever alters - on the mantra AUM - 10 min talk/ meditation with Irina Verwer

15. Patanjali

- 2nd/ third BCE sage stated to have compiled the Yoga Sutras, a guide or 'instruction guidebook on just how to reside in order to development along a spiritual course in the direction of knowledge.

Learn more: An introduction to the Yoga exercise Sutras

EkhartYoga members: Yoga exercise Sutras - asana - A short look at the framework of the Yoga exercise Sutras and a thorough expedition of the 2 knowledgeables (out of 196!) that associate with asana practice - 20 min talk with David Dodd

16. Prana

- life energy; life force.

EkhartYoga members: Internal core as well as breath - learn just how to find and trigger the deeper muscular tissues of the physical body to hold and move power (prana) - 50 minutes, level 1/2 class Vinyasa flow class with Sandra Carson

17. Pranayama

- breathing exercises which get rid of the physical and psychological obstacles in our body to release the breath and so the circulation of prana - life energy.

Learn more: What is Pranayama?

EkhartYoga members: 10 days of Pranayama - establish a normal pranayama experiment this ten day programme

18. Sacrum

- a triangular-shaped bone in the lower back.

Learn more: The spinal column: the eternal youth

EkhartYoga members: Easing pain in the reduced back - a simple method which assists to launch the muscle mass that affix to the tailbone, therefore soothing tension in the whole reduced spine - 15 minutes, yoga exercise treatment with James Reeves

19. Savasana

- implying Remains posture - relaxation posture, generally at the end of a yoga exercise class.

Learn more: Struggling with Savasana

EkhartYoga members: Relaxation time - Esther Ekhart talks you through a lovely guided relaxation - 12 mins

20. Shanti

- meaning 'peace' - usually chanted 3 times in class.

21. Sit / Sitting bones

- part of the pelvis - both bony outcroppings on the bottom of the buttocks that are most conveniently felt when remaining on a tough surface.

22. Sternum

- breastbone - long, level slim bone that runs vertically down the centre of the chest.

23. Surya Namaskar

- Sun salutations - a series of asanas. This vibrant yang sequence is an extremely popular series frequently used to heat up the body at the beginning of a yoga exercise class.

Learn more: The beginning of the sunlight salutation

EkhartYoga members: 3 sunlight salutations A/ 2 sun salutations B - develop strength as well as endurance, starting with 3 of the Surya Namaskar (Sunlight Salutation) A variant, and 2 of the Surya Namaskar B variant - 10 mins with Esther Ekhart

24. Tailbone

- the little bone at the end of your spinal column. Aiming your tailbone down assists to align the pelvis.

25. Ujjayi

- generally translated as the 'successful breath' or sea breath due to the sound the breath makes at it enters as well as leaves the a little restricted throat.

EkhartYoga members: Breathing with noise - ujjayi - explore the sound of the Ujjayi breath - 10 mins, pranayama class with Joey Miles

26. Upanishad

- collection of texts of religious as well as thoughtful nature, created in India possibly between c. 800 BCE as well as c. 500 BCE.

27. Vinyasa

- activity connected with breath. Poses are strung with each other in a short or much longer flow.

Learn more: Explore Vinyasa yoga

28. Yang yoga

- design of yoga that is a lot more balanced, recurring and also energised - terrific for developing stamina and also fitness

Learn more: Balancing the Yin and also Yang in your practice

29. Yin yoga

- series of long-held, easy floor poses that target the fascia as well as connective cells in the body. We require a mix of Yin as well as Yang in yoga (as in life!) to keep us balanced and healthy.

Learn more: The benefits of Yin yoga

EkhartYoga members: 7 Days of Yin Yoga programme

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November 18th Playlist

This week’s episode initially lacked some inspiration and motivation after the fun we had with the “Shanty” episode. But after randomly hearing some brand new music from Courtney Barnett and Aimee Mann, we took off from there. Speaking of taking off, no show next week because of it’s Thanksgiving and you don’t want to hear us talking and playing music with our mouth full! Look for us in December! Now to the deets of this week’s episode. 

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Write a List of Things to Look Forward To-Courtney Barnett Speedy Ortiz-Speedy Ortiz Old Man Blank-Lemonheads War on War-Low Monkey Man-Rolling Stones Kingston Calypso-Count Basie Orchestra High Society-Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue No Secrets-Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue

Side B

After All This Time-Michael Chapman The Banjo-Sean and Tony Trischka Early in the Morning-Harry Nilsson  Don’t You Think I Feel it Too-Carson McHone You Could Have Been a Roosevelt-Aimee Mann The Roving-Bonny Light Horseman Trouble Town-Gill Landry Miri-Bassekou Kouyayte & Ngoni Ba (no way was I going to pronounce this artist’s name correctly)

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How the late night talk show set became an American icon Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN “The Story of Late Night,” a new CNN Original Series on the history of the iconic genre, airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Listen to the companion podcast, “Behind the Desk: The Story of Late Night,” here. For more than six decades, American late night talk show hosts have sat behind large wooden desks, with guests in cushioned chairs or couches to their right. Behind them, the wall may be painted to mimic an open vista; around them, a brightly lit studio set is made more inviting through warm wood tones, mugs on a desk or — in Johnny Carson’s case — a couple of well-placed house plants. As much as the programs themselves are part of Americans’ nightly rituals, the late night talk show set has become an iconic — and predictable — fixture in television, today inhabited by comics including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, following in the lineage of Jay Leno and David Letterman, and further back, Carson, Steve Allen and Dick Cavett. Johnny Carson (pictured with Dolly Parton) remains televisions longest-running late night talk show host, spending four decades behind the desk for “The Tonight Show.” Credit: Alice S. Hall/NBC/Getty Images “It’s funny how late night sets have not changed much since they started,” said Robert Thompson, a media scholar and professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, in a video interview. “It’s an attempt to show some semblance of our idea of an American living room. But an American living room where one of the people, the owner of the living room, sits behind a desk.” When it was first introduced around 1949, late night was a different beast than the already familiar entertainment of evening variety like “The Ed Sullivan Show” or daytime talk show programming like “The Today Show.” The late show concept had a very low bar for success, as the CNN original series “The Story of Late Night,” details. Prior to the debut of the then-novel, post-11pm programming, the nightly news would give way to a test pattern, and then static — a foreign visual today, in an era when there is always something to stream. Watch a brief history of late night talk shows “Late night began as a way to kill time,” host Conan O’Brien, who just announced the end of his long-running program on TBS, said in the docuseries. “It was the networks realizing… ‘let’s kick the football a little further down the road and see what happens at 11:30.'” Today, late night talk shows have branched out beyond network television, and have begun to include more women and hosts of color, including new shows helmed by Seth Meyers’ writer Amber Ruffin and popular YouTuber Lilly Singh. Yet the desk setup largely remains, and it’s notable when a host tries to do away with the formula — like when Bill Maher sat among his guests on the ’90s show “Politically Incorrect.” Last year, Samantha Bee explained the reason her weekly show “Full Frontal” is deskless in an interview for the Television Academy Foundation, saying the traditional approach made her feel “super confined.” Comedian Steve Allen first introduced the talk show desk during the often experimental 1950s show “Tonight Starring Steve Allen” — the first iteration of “The Tonight Show.” Credit: NBC/Getty Images Still, the spirit of the 1950s and ’60s era of set design has largely persisted. “Every time you see a late night show, it seems like everybody starts with the same formula,” said Keith Raywood, a production designer who has built sets for O’Brien and Fallon, in a video interview. “They just dress it differently.” Designed for power dynamics The pioneer of the late night talk show was actually a woman, the actress Faye Emerson, who hosted interviews and gave her own political commentary in 1949 on “The Faye Emerson Show,” often from a couch in a living room. But then women were relegated to the realm of daytime television, where advertisers could appeal to stay-at-home wives, media historian Maureen Mauk explained in “The Story of Late Night.” “The men started to take over (late night), and the women were really never to return, in a lot of ways,” Mauk said. (The next female host to nab a nighttime talk show was Joan Rivers in 1986, but Fox cancelled “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” the following year. A decade later, Cynthia Garrett became the first network late night Black female host, but her NBC show “Later” was axed after a single season.) Joan Rivers was often a guest host for Carson on “The Tonight Show,” as pictured here with Oprah Winfrey, but wound up competing against him with her own short-lived Fox show. Credit: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/Getty Images Comedian Steve Allen first introduced the desk during his wacky and experimental programming that was the first iteration of “The Tonight Show” — which included him dipping into vats of jello and happily pie-smashing his guests. According to “The Story of Late Night,” Allen’s successor, Jack Paar, added the content format we’re still familiar with today: a monologue, interview and performance. But it was Johnny Carson, host of “The Tonight Show” for over four decades, whose affable, family-friendly charm became synonymous with late night. And his long-running show also cemented the hierarchy implicit in the layout of the set. “The desk is occasionally breached,” said Thompson. During the first taping of the “Late Show with David Letterman,” Bill Murray spray painted Letterman’s desk. Credit: Alan Singer/CBS/Getty Images “It’s less democratic, less egalitarian, if someone is sitting behind a desk in an elevated position, and his guests are not equal in stature in terms of how they’re being seated,” Raywood said. Thompson points out the setup “leaves the guests to be fully exposed.” Cavett, whose talk show slots included late night, preferred to sit more casually on comfortable chairs with his guests, putting them on equal ground. Arsenio Hall (here with Eddie Murphy) shook up late night as the first Black host — and notably did away the desk format. Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Getty Images But one magnetic personality aimed for an even more personal way of engaging with his guests. Arsenio Hall, who in 1989 became the first Black host to helm a late night talk show, sat close to his guests, who were on a couch, and leaned in with rapt attention. “We see him in his entirety,” Thompson said of Hall. “He would lean into his interviews…which gave it a sense of intimacy.” Carson, on the other hand, “had an emotional distance to him,” Thompson said. “The idea of him leaning in in that friendly, familiar way that Arsenio did would have been unthinkable. And I think it’s one of the reasons (“The Arsenio Hall Show”) really had some voltage and some energy — because it looked less like what we had seen so many times over and over again.” Reworking the formula Some of the most creative takes on talk show sets have come out of the parodies, which have become as ubiquitous as late night itself. The original spoof, Norman Lear’s “Fernwood 2 Night” from 1977, and its grandchild, Zach Galifianakis’s “Between Two Ferns,” which premiered in 2008, directly referenced the ever-present greenery on Carson’s set. President Obama was famously tapped for Galifianakis’s Funny or Die series, which took place on a simple black set with two towering green ferns. During his interview, Obama deadpanned to the comedian: “When I heard that people actually watch this show, I was actually pretty surprised.” Eric Andre and Semere Etmet at “The Eric Andre Show Live!” The sketch comedy series parodies public-access talk shows with a wild dose of surrealism. Credit: Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Meanwhile, “The Eric Andre Show,” the absurdist Adult Swim show that debuted in 2012 and repeatedly destroys its set, heightened all of the strangeness that Steve Allen had established in the Wild West of late night, and that Letterman continued early in his career. “Older late night television had a real sense of that iconoclastic,” Thompson said. But Thompson has noted how even kitsch and subversion has become cliché. It’s only recently that another substantial shift in late night set design has occurred, he said, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which forced late night hosts to tape from home for an extended period of time. “All of a sudden, the set of the talk show itself was totally downsized, because people were doing it from home,” he said. “Colbert started in his bathtub the very first day.” As Colbert suited up in his bubble bath the first night for “The Late Show” on CBS, Meyers posted up at his in-laws’ house for “Late Night” on NBC. After 68 episodes there, a painting of a sea captain, which had become an animated “guest” throughout the remote shows, said goodbye with a jaunty sea shanty. Late-night TV marks anniversary of pandemic “In a strange way, the liberation from those Carson-era studio sets was actually, creatively, a good thing for late night talk shows,” Thompson said. Instead of guests stopping by the set, they could dial in from wherever, using Zoom backgrounds or sharing the intimacy of their homes. “Sometimes it’s more interesting to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger from his house, than it is to have Arnold Schwarzenegger wander onto the stage, which is so artificial, so prepped,” Thompson said. Raywood also signaled that it’s time for something new, after nearly seven decades of following the same formula. “I think we could easily be due for a change in format for late night television,” he said. “Every generation veers into another direction — how they look at things, how they dress, the kind of music they listen to — so why are we doing the same show every (time)?” He added: “You need producers who are creative enough, and brave enough.” This article has been updated to correct the title and year of Joan Rivers’ late-night show with Fox, and to include additional context regarding the Dick Cavett set. 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Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 4 Review: The Fate of the Buried Treasure

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This NANCY DREW review contains spoilers.

Nancy Drew Season 2, Episode 4

Leave it to Nancy Drew to humanize a monstrous sea spirit, but that’s precisely what “The Fate of the Buried Treasure” does, an hour that that not just provides context around the life of the woman who ultimately became the Aglaeca, but reveals that she was really just the first in an apparent line of women whose life was ruined by the horrible men of Horseshoe Bay.

(Plus, it looks like Ryan and Nancy have more in common than we thought, in an adorable crime-solving sort of way.)

The Drew Crew decides that their best shot at stopping the Aglaeca lies in the use of a dybbuk box, an object from Jewish folklore believed to be capable of trapping a spirit. But in order to use it, they need a meaningful object from their target’s life as well as a token from their death. The latter, they have covered, thanks to poor dead Owen Marvin, but for the second, they need to figure out the truth of who the Aglaeca used to be.

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We already know that she was once Odette Lamar, a rich French heiress who also happened to be a brilliant businesswoman in her own right when Douglas Marvin brought her to America. The sea shanty the group uncovered revealed her true fate, and it didn’t involve dying tragically of consumption. In truth, she was murdered and her death covered up, all so that a greedy group of men could steal her fortune.

To prove it, Nancy and Bess head to the historical cottage where Captain Marvin used to live, where they discover that Odette wasn’t the only woman whose life he stole. His second wife Agnes reportedly went mad and was imprisoned in the basement, and some memory of her lingers there still, a terrifying imprint that haunts the dank room where she scraped nonsensical messages on the walls.         

While there, Nancy ends up facing off with a mansplaining Horseshoe Bay tour guide, who is all too eager to declare that Odette was only memorable – and therefore only valuable – because she married a town founder. It’s satisfying that our heroine, currently with less than two days to live before the ghost of this same woman brutally murders her, still takes the time to stand up for her memory, highlighting the violence of what was done to her, and how that ultimately benefited the same town that now ignores her life.

That it feels something akin to the way that Horseshoe Bay embraced the story of Lucy Sable as a cautionary tale for unruly young women without acknowledging the town’s complicity in the things that drove her to her death is not an accident.

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Perhaps that is also why Nancy is so loathe to believe that Agnes Marvin was truly crazy, when she’s seen so much evidence of the ways that women’s stories are often twisted to benefit the lives of the men around them And, as a result, she manages to track down, not just the necklace, but proof that Odette Lamar would likely never have married Douglas Martin – or any man, for that matter – in the form of love letters to a woman back in England.

 The clever way that the episode reveals this twist, that Agnes was smart enough to craft a cipher from the hymnal she was allowed to keep with her and leave a trail for someone capable of figuring out her message, is deeply satisfying. Just another example of men underestimating the women around them to their own detriment.

Though the fact that Agnes died alone and probably a little mad after all in that sad room is beyond depressing. What good is being an exceptional woman when the system is so blatantly stacked against you from jump?

The fact that Ryan Hudson, of all people, is intrinsic to this part of the story is a deft way for Nancy Drew to underline that the two are kind of alike. I’m looking forward to seeing them hash out whatever this prickly connection between them is, even if that ultimately looks like them being more friends than sharing any kind of real father-daughter bond.

Though I’m curious to see how Nancy explains the destruction of the very expensive magic box Ryan bought for her… assuming she and her friends survive their date with death next week.

Additional Thoughts

The music choices throughout this episode were absolutely fantastic. Anybody know the name of the song when Nancy was digging around in the confessional?

I cannot believe this show wants me to believe that something called ghost goggles not only exist but actually sort of work?

I want an entire episode that is Ace, Carson and Ryan on a roadtrip somewhere. Every scene with the three of them was hilarious and charming – Ace’s “do not make me turn this car around” energy in the midst of the Drew vs. Hudson sniping was so good.

Ace’s apology for not knowing Ryan was lactose intolerant and therefore couldn’t drink the coffee he’d gotten him made me laugh out loud.

I kind of hate to admit this but I had truly forgotten that Lisbeth was still part of this show?

I wish I were more invested in these two and their relationship, because I adore Bess and want her to be happy, but….ugh, to me she and Lisbeth are just snoozeville.

“Rich people tchotchkes are usually your catnip” is perhaps the most succinct description of Bess ever.

Thank goodness that George is not ready to drop the L-word to Nick…I mean, I get that near-death experiences make the heart grow fonder and all, but y’all have been dating like a month!!

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7days Book Cover Challenge #3 いつもお世話になって刺激を頂いてるマルチな先輩 @2accojapan さんからバトン頂きました！今までに刺激を受けた本達を1日1冊、1週間アップさせて頂きます。 David Carson「The End of Print」 1990年代頭に音楽雑誌『RAY GUN』のアートディレクション、デザインを手掛けていた彼の作品集。テキストは判読不能にされ、デザインも良い意味でグチャグチャで、内容の全くわからない誌面が大胆に構成されていました。以前までにない紙面の作り方は圧巻でした。 #bookcoverchallenge #stayhome #davidcarson #surf #shanti https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJgiMqjE3y/?igshid=1b9g06pksz7qf

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Here Are the 2020 James Beard Awards Restaurant, Chef, and Media Finalists

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Today, on what would have been the 30th annual James Beard Awards ceremony, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2020 James Beard Awards, which honors the year’s outstanding restaurants and chefs, as well as food journalism, books, and broadcast media. The announcement was originally scheduled for March 25, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the Foundation to cancel the planned Philadelphia event and postpone both the finalists reveal and the awards themselves.

COVID-19 has left the restaurant industry in a precarious position, to put it mildly. Restaurants are pivoting their operations to stay in business, closing temporarily, and in some cases, closing for good. When the Foundation opted to postpone the finalist announcement, it acknowledged that it did so in part to focus on rebuilding the restaurant industry, awards being the last thing on anyone’s mind. And so it came as a bit of a surprise when on April 27 the Foundation announced plans to move forward with a virtual finalist announcement and, eventually, the 2020 James Beard Awards. Today, the Foundation revealed the Restaurant and Chef Awards Gala will take place in late September, and the Media Awards will take place in late May.

In a post on the James Beard Foundation website, chief strategy officer Mitchell Davis explained that the Foundation consulted with chefs, restaurateurs, and others in the industry and determined that the James Beard Awards finalists, like the list of semifinalists announced in late February, deserved recognition for their work in 2019. “Those we consulted felt the Awards could also offer a glimmer of hope to an industry looking for light in a very dark time,” he writes. Davis acknowledged that it is also a particularly dark time for the media, which will be recognized for the first time in the 2020 James Beard Awards cycle with the finalists announcement.

Given the ongoing restrictions related to COVID-19, the format for the 2020 James Beard Awards is still undecided — but they will go on, and “take place” in Chicago at some date later this year. “We want every James Beard Award winner to have a chance to have their moment in the spotlight,” Mitchell writes. “We have partners who support this industry, who support the Foundation, who are willing to work with us to figure out what’s best for all.”

Visit Philadelphia, which stands to lose millions due to the coronavirus pandemic, is still sponsoring the virtual event. Last year, Houston hosted the finalist announcement and although there was plenty of Texas representation on the semifinalists list, including 11 chefs and restaurants from Houston, the city’s restaurants and chefs were completely shut out of the whittled down finalists list. Philadelphia didn’t see the same fate.

Below, the 2020 James Beard Awards finalists.

James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards Finalists

Best New Restaurant

Automatic Seafood & Oysters, Birmingham, AL

Demi, Minneapolis

Eem, Portland, OR

Fox & the Knife, Boston

Gado Gado, Portland, OR

Gianna, New Orleans

Kalaya, Philadelphia

Nightshade, Los Angeles

Pasjoli, Santa Monica, CA

Verjus, San Francisco

Outstanding Baker

Graison Gill, Bellegarde Bakery, New Orleans

Zachary Golper, Bien Cuit, NYC

Lisa Ludwinski, Sister Pie, Detroit

Avery Ruzicka, Manresa Bread, Los Gatos, CA

Maura Kilpatrick, Sofra Bakery, Cambridge, MA i

Outstanding Bar Program

Anvil Bar & Refuge, Houston

Expatriate, Portland, OR

Kimball House, Decatur, GA

Lost Lake, Chicago

Trick Dog, San Francisco

Outstanding Chef

David Kinch, Manresa, Los Gatos, CA

Corey Lee, Benu, San Francisco

Donald Link, Herbsaint, New Orleans

Missy Robbins, Lilia, NYC

Ana Sortun, Oleana, Cambridge, MA

Marc Vetri, Vetri Cucina, Philadelphia

Outstanding Hospitality

Brigtsen’s, New Orleans

Canlis, Seattle

Saison, San Francisco

Swan Oyster Depot, San Francisco

Zingerman’s Roadhouse, Ann Arbor, MI

Outstanding Pastry Chef

Lincoln Carson, Bon Temps, Los Angeles

Juan Contreras, Atelier Crenn, San Francisco

Margarita Manzke, République, Los Angeles

Diane Moua, Spoon and Stable, Minneapolis

Natasha Pickowicz, Flora Bar, NYC

Miro Uskokovic, Gramercy Tavern, NYC

Outstanding Restaurant

FIG, Charleston, SC

Frasca Food and Wine, Boulder, CO

Jaleo, Washington, D.C.

Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix

Quince, San Francisco

Outstanding Restaurateur

Paul Bartolotta, The Bartolotta Restaurants, Milwaukee (Ristorante Bartolotta, Harbor House, Lake Park Bistro, and others)

Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer, JK Food Group, Boston (Little Donkey, Toro, Coppa)

JoAnn Clevenger, Upperline Restaurant, New Orleans

Alex Raij and Eder Montero, NYC (La Vara, Saint Julivert Fisherie, Txikito)

Jason Wang, Xi’an Famous Foods, NYC

Outstanding Wine Program

Bacchanal, New Orleans

Canard, Portland, OR

COTE, NYC

Miller Union, Atlanta

Night + Market Sahm, Venice, CA

Spiaggia, Chicago

Outstanding Wine, Beer or Spirits Producer

Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall, High Wire Distilling Co., Charleston, SC

Cathy Corison, Corison Winery, St. Helena, CA

Drew Kulsveen, Willett Distillery, Bardstown, KY

Todd Leopold and Scott Leopold, Leopold Bros., Denver

Rising Star Chef of the Year

Will Aghajanian and Liz Johnson, The Catbird Seat, Nashville

Irene Li, Mei Mei, Boston

Gaby Maeda, State Bird Provisions, San Francisco

Ashleigh Shanti, Benne on Eagle, Asheville, NC

Paola Velez, Kith/Kin, Washington, D.C.

Jon Yao, Kato, Los Angeles

Best Chef: California

Jeremy Fox, Birdie G’s, Santa Monica, CA

Brandon Jew, Mister Jiu’s, San Francisco

Jessica Koslow, Sqirl, Los Angeles

Mourad Lahlou, Mourad, San Francisco

Joshua Skenes, Angler, San Francisco

Pim Techamuanvivit, Kin Khao, San Francisco

Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH)

Gene Kato, Momotaro, Chicago

Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, Chicago

Noah Sandoval, Oriole, Chicago

John Shields and Karen Urie Shields, Smyth, Chicago

Erick Williams, Virtue, Chicago

Lee Wolen, Boka, Chicago

Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (D.C., DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)

Amy Brandwein, Centrolina, Washington, D.C.

Nicholas Elmi, Laurel, Philadelphia

Rich Landau, Vedge, Philadelphia

Cristina Martinez, South Philly Barbacoa, Philadelphia

Jon Sybert, Tail Up Goat, Washington, D.C.

Cindy Wolf, Charleston, Baltimore

Best Chef: Midwest (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI)

Steven Brown, Tilia, Minneapolis

Michael Corvino, Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room, Kansas City, MO

Michael Gallina, Vicia, St. Louis

Jamie Malone, Grand Café, Minneapolis

Christina Nguyen, Hai Hai, Minneapolis

Best Chef: Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)

Carrie Baird, Bar Dough, Denver

Jen Castle and Blake Spalding, Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm, Boulder, UT

Jeff Drew, Snake River Grill, Jackson, WY

Caroline Glover, Annette, Aurora, CO

Dana Rodriguez, Super Mega Bien, Denver

Kelly Whitaker, The Wolf’s Tailor, Denver

Best Chef: New York State

Sean Gray, Momofuku Ko, NYC

Brooks Headley, Superiority Burger, NYC

Junghyun Park, Atomix, NYC

Daniela Soto-Innes, ATLA, NYC

Alex Stupak, Empellón, NYC

Best Chef: Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Vien Dobui, CÔNG TỬ BỘT, Portland, ME

Ben Jackson, Drifters Wife, Portland, ME

Tiffani Faison, Orfano, Boston

Krista Kern Desjarlais, The Purple House, North Yarmouth, ME

Greg Mitchell and Chad Conley, Palace Diner, Biddeford, ME

Cassie Piuma, Sarma, Somerville, MA

Best Chef: Northwest & Pacific (AK, HI, OR, WA)

Peter Cho, Han Oak, Portland, OR

Gregory Gourdet, Departure, Portland, OR

Chris Kajioka and Anthony Rush, Senia, Honolulu

Katy Millard, Coquine, Portland, OR

Kristen Murray, MÅURICE, Portland, OR

Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi, Joule, Seattle

Best Chef: South (AL, AR, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, FL, LA, MS)

Jose Enrique, Jose Enrique, San Juan, PR

Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus, Coquette, New Orleans

Michael Gulotta, Maypop, New Orleans

Mason Hereford, Turkey and the Wolf, New Orleans

Isaac Toups, Toups’ Meatery, New Orleans

Best Chef: Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV)

Katie Button, Cúrate, Asheville, NC

Cassidee Dabney, The Barn at Blackberry Farm, Walland, TN

Cheetie Kumar, Garland, Raleigh, NC

Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Memphis, TN

Julia Sullivan, Henrietta Red, Nashville

Best Chef: Southwest (AZ, NM, NV, OK)

Dan Krohmer, Other Mama, Las Vegas

Jonathan Perno, Campo at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM

Chrysa Robertson, Rancho Pinot, Scottsdale, AZ

Silvana Salcido Esparza, Barrio Café Gran Reserva, Phoenix

Jeff Smedstad, Elote Cafe, Sedona, AZ

James Trees, Esther’s Kitchen, Las Vegas

Best Chef: Texas

Kevin Fink, Emmer & Rye, Austin

Michael Fojtasek, Olamaie, Austin

Anita Jaisinghani, Pondicheri, Houston

Steve McHugh, Cured, San Antonio

Trong Nguyen, Crawfish & Noodles, Houston

America’s Classics Awards

Previously announced

El Taco de Mexico, Denver, Colorado

Lassis Inn, Little Rock, Arkansas

Oriental Mart, Seattle, Washington

Puritan Backroom, Manchester, New Hampshire

Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que, Brownsville, Texas

Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth, Frankenmouth, Michigan

Humanitarian of the Year:

Jessica B. Harris

Leadership Awards:

Phillip and Dorathy E. Barker, Operations Spring Plant

Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community Development (C2C)

Abiodun Henderson, The Come Up Project

Mark and Kerry Marhefka of Abundant Seafood

Caleb Zigas, La Cocina

James Beard Restaurant Design Awards

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Chez Panisse

Outstanding Restaurant Design, 75 Seats and Under:

SIMPLICITY for HALL by o.d.o

Heliotrope Architects for Rupee

Vermillion Architects, LLC for Spoonbill Watering Hole and Restaurant

Outstanding Restaurant Design, 76 Seats and Over:

Hacin + Associates for Shore Leave;

Ken Fulk, Inc for Swan & Bar Bevy

Klein Agency and ORA for Auburn

2020 James Beard Foundation Book Awards

For cookbooks and other non-fiction food- or beverage-related books that were published in the U.S. in 2019. Winners, including the Book of the Year Award and the Cookbook Hall of Fame inductee will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

American Books with recipes focused on the cooking or foodways of regions or communities in the United States.

Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World; Chris Shepherd and Kaitlyn Goalen, (Clarkson Potter)

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking; Toni Tipton-Martin, (Clarkson Potter)

South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations; Sean Brock, (Artisan Books)

Baking and Desserts Books with recipes focused on breads, pastries, desserts, and other treats.

Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers; Nicole Rucker, (Avery)

Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making; Daniel Leader and Lauren Chattman, (Avery)

Pastry Love: A Baker’s Journal of Favorite Recipes; Joanne Chang, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Beverage with Recipes Books focused on recipes for how to make beverages.

Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time; Brad Thomas Parsons, (Ten Speed Press)

The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World’s Greatest Drink, with Recipes; Robert Simonson, (Ten Speed Press)

The NoMad Cocktail Book; Leo Robitschek, (Ten Speed Press)

Beverage without Recipes Beverage-focused books and guides that either don’t contain recipes or that may have minimal recipes but aren’t recipe-centric.

The Complete Guide to Japanese Drinks: Sake, Shochu, Japanese Whisky, Beer, Wine, Cocktails and Other Beverages; Stephen Lyman and Chris Bunting, (Tuttle Publishing)

Red & White: An Unquenchable Thirst for Wine; Oz Clarke, (Little, Brown Book Group)

World Atlas of Wine 8th Edition; Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, (Mitchell Beazley)

General Books with recipes that address a broad scope of cooking, not just a single topic, technique or region.

All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice; Molly Stevens, (W. W. Norton & Company)

Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook; Christopher Kimball, (Voracious)

Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook; Carla Lalli Music, (Clarkson Potter)

Health and Special Diets Books with recipes related to health and nutrition, or that address specific health issues, such as allergies or diabetes.

The Beauty Chef Gut Guide: With 90+ Delicious Recipes and Weekly Meal Plans; Carla Oates, (Hardie Grant Books)

Cannelle et Vanille: Nourishing, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Meal and Mood; Aran Goyoaga, (Sasquatch Books)

Gluten-Free Baking at Home: 102 Foolproof Recipes for Delicious Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and More; Jeffrey Larsen, (Ten Speed Press)

International

Books with recipes focused on food and cooking traditions of countries or regions outside of the United States.

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light; Caroline Eden, (Quadrille Publishing)

Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa; Yohanis Gebreyesus, (Interlink Publishing)

The Food of Sichuan; Fuchsia Dunlop, (W. W. Norton & Company)

Photography

American Sfoglino: A Master Class in Handmade Pasta; Eric Wolfinger, (Chronicle Books)

Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics; Esther Choi, (Prestel)

Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico; Quentin Bacon, (Abrams Books)

Reference, History, and Scholarship Includes manuals, guides, encyclopedias, and books that present research related to food or foodways.

Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind; Nico Slate, (University of Washington Press)

A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia; Bernard L. Herman, (The University of North Carolina Press)

The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration; Chris Smith, (Chelsea Green Publishing)

Restaurant and Professional Books written by a culinary professional or restaurant chef with recipes that may include advanced cooking techniques, use specialty ingredients, and require professional equipment. This includes culinary arts textbooks.

Dishoom: From Bombay with Love; Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, and Naved Nasir, (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Eleven Madison Park: The Next Chapter, Revised and Unlimited Edition; Daniel Humm, (Ten Speed Press)

The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think; Josh Niland, (Hardie Grant Books)

Single Subject Books with recipes focused on a single or category of ingredients, a dish, or a method of cooking – such as lobster, seafood, grains, pasta, burgers, or canning. Exceptions: baking and desserts books, vegetable-focused books, health and special diets books, restaurant and professional books, and beverage books should be entered in those respective categories.

From the Oven to the Table: Simple Dishes That Look After Themselves; Diana Henry, (Mitchell Beazley)

Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook: The Secrets of Italy’s Best Home Cooks; Vicky Bennison, (Hardie Grant Books)

Sour: The Magical Element That Will Transform Your Cooking; Mark Diacono, (Quadrille Publishing)

Vegetable-Focused Cooking Books that feature recipes for how to prepare and serve vegetables and plant-based ingredients. Books may be vegetarian, vegan, or vegetable-focused with minimal reference to meats.

Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables; Abra Berens, (Chronicle Books)

Vegetables Illustrated: An Inspiring Guide with 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes; Editors at America’s Test Kitchen, (America’s Test Kitchen)

Whole Food Cooking Every Day: Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar; Amy Chaplin, (Artisan Books)

Writing Narrative nonfiction books, including memoirs, culinary tourism, investigative journalism, food advocacy, and critical analysis of food and foodways for a general audience.

Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer; Bren Smith, (Knopf)

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir; Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein, (Knopf)

Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters; Charlotte Druckman, (Abrams Press)

2020 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards

For radio, television broadcasts, podcasts, webcasts, and documentaries appearing in 2019. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Audio Program

The Food Programme – The Search for Esiah’s Seeds; Airs on: BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chili; Airs on: Audible

The Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation; Airs on: iTunes, Sporkful, Spotify, and Stitcher

Audio Reporting

California Foodways – The Curious Second Life of a Prather Ranch Cow: Biomedical Research; Trans Man Finds – and Creates – Refuge in His Family’s Small-Town Cafe; Legalizing Cannabis Impacts Food, Farming in Humboldt; Reporter: Lisa Morehouse; Airs on: KQED, California Foodways, iTunes, Google Play, Radio Public, SoundCloud, and Stitcher

Food Actually – Junk Food Actually; Reporter: Tamar Adler; Airs on: Luminary

Gravy – Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-Fried Chicken; Reporter: Betsy Shepherd; Airs on: southernfoodways.org and iTunes

Documentary

Harvest Season; Airs on: PBS

Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy; Airs on: Premiered at SXSW in March 2019

That’s My Jazz; Airs on: Vimeo

Online Video, Fixed Location and/or Instructional

Chef Studio: The Crumby Bits – Cricket Macarons; Airs on: YouTube

Grace Young – Wok Therapist; Airs on: GraceYoung.com and YouTube

Ready Jet Cook - How to Make Pad Thai with Jet Tila; Airs on: FoodNetwork.com and YouTube

Online Video, on Location

Eat, Drink, Share, Puerto Rico Food – El Burén de Lula; Airs on: YouTube

Handmade – How Knives Are Made for New York’s Best Restaurants; How a Ceramics Master Makes Plates for Michelin-Starred Restaurants; Airs on: Eater and YouTube

In Real Life – Why Eating This Fish Could Save Coral Reefs; Airs on: YouTube and AJ+

Outstanding Personality/Host

Alton Brown, Good Eats: The Return; Airs on: Food Network

David Chang, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner; Airs on: Netflix

Roy Choi; Broken Bread with Roy Choi; Airs on: Tastemade and KCET

Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location

Good Eats: The Return – American Classic: Chicken Parm; Airs on: Food Network

Lidia’s Kitchen – Trattoria Favorites; Airs on: PBS

Pati’s Mexican Table – A Local’s Tour of Culiacán; Airs on: WETA; distributed nationally by American Public Television

Television Program, on Location

Chef’s Table – Asma Khan; Airs on: Netflix

Las Crónicas del Taco (Taco Chronicles) – Canasta; Airs on: Netflix

Street Food – Bangkok, Thailand; Airs on: Netflix

Visual and Audio Technical Excellence

Chef’s Table; Adam Bricker, Chloe Weaver, and Will Basanta; Airs on: Netflix

Street Food; Alexander D. Paul, Matthew Chavez, and Shane Reed; Airs on: Netflix

The Taste of Place – Wild Rice; Jesse Roesler and Kevin Russell; Airs on: Vimeo

Visual Reporting (on TV or Online)

Fork the System – Moro Food of Muslim Mindanao: This is Filipino, Too; Reporters: Joi Lee and HyoJin Park; Airs on: Al Jazeera English Digital, YouTube, and Facebook

In Real Life– Why This $300 Clam Is so Important to Native Americans and China; Reporters: AJ+ Staff; Airs on: YouTube and AJ+

Rotten – The Avocado War; Reporters: Christine Haughney, Erin Cauchi, and Gretchen Goetz; Airs on: Netflix

2020 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Finalists

For articles published in English in 2019. Winners, including the Emerging Voice Award, will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Columns

What She’s Having: “Popeyes’ Fried Chicken Sandwich: A Delicious Distraction, a Cultural Lesson”; “Every Season Is Soup Season”; “Why a Somali Nook in East Boston Is One of the Country’s Best New Restaurants” — Devra First, The Boston Globe

Power Rankings: “The Official Fast Food French Fry Power Rankings”; “The Official Spicy Snack Power Rankings”; “The Official Domestic Beer Power Rankings” — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times

Rooted in Place: “In Service”; “Hair, Food, and Hustle”; “The Best That We’ve Got” — Rosalind Bentley, Gravy

Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award

“Le Colonial Is an Orientalist Specter”; “The Ultimate Chaat Truck Crawl”; “The Fantasy — and Reality — of Dining at Chez Panisse” — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle

“NYC’s Buzziest New Sushi Parlors Are Transcendent, If You Can Handle the Bros”; “Wall Street’s Underground Russian Spa Is a Dining Destination for the Soul”; “Estiatorio Milos Is One of the Last Big Restaurant Scams in New York” —Ryan Sutton

Eater New York

“Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.”; “The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain”; “Benno, Proudly Out of Step With the Age”

Pete Wells

The New York Times

Dining and Travel

“In Pursuit of the Perfect Pizza”

Matt Goulding

Airbnb Magazine

“Interview With the Vampiro”

Dylan James Ho

Taste

“These Are the World’s Best Restaurants: North America, South America, Africa and Middle East”

Besha Rodell

Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine

Feature Reporting

America’s farmers in crisis during Trump’s trade wars: “Left Behind: Farmers Fight to Save Their Land in Rural Minnesota as Trade War Intensifies”; “’I’m Gonna Lose Everything’: A Farm Family Struggles to Recover after Rising Debt Pushes a Husband to Suicide”; “In Trump Country, a Season of Need on Family Farms”

Annie Gowen

The Washington Post

“The Great Land Robbery”

Vann R. Newkirk II

The Atlantic

“Value Meal”

Tad Friend

The New Yorker

Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication

The Bitter Southerner

Gastro Obscura

The New Yorker

Foodways

“An Indigenous Community in Mexico Finds Its Voice — and Strength — in Wild Mushrooms”

Michael Snyder

Los Angeles Times

“On Hawaii, the Fight for Taro’s Revival”

Ligaya Mishan

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

“A Real Hot Mess: How Grits Got Weaponized Against Cheating Men”

Cynthia R. Greenlee

MUNCHIES | Food by VICE

Health and Wellness

“The AGEs Puzzle: How We Cook Food Is Killing Us. Scientists in SC Know Why.”; “9 Easy Ways to Eat Fewer AGEs: A Stress-Free Guide”

Tony Bartelme

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

“How Washington Keeps America Sick and Fat”; “Meet the Silicon Valley Investor Who Wants Washington to Figure Out What You Should Eat”

Catherine Boudreau and Helena Bottemiller Evich

Politico

“Protein Nation”

Shaun Dreisbach

EatingWell

Home Cooking

“6 Holiday Cookies That Will Win You the Cookie Swap”

Hilary Cadigan and Rick Martinez

Bon Appétit

“Fry Time”

Nancy Singleton Hachisu

Saveur

“In Praise of Schmaltz”

Rachel Handler

Grub Street

Innovative Storytelling

“Best New Restaurants 2019”

Kevin Alexander, Nicole A. Taylor, and Adriana Velez

Thrillist

“Food and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”

Gary He, Matt Buchanan, and Meghan McCarron

Eater

“Made in America”

Tim Carman and Shelly Tan

The Washington Post

Investigative Reporting

“How USDA Distorted Data to Conceal Decades of Discrimination Against Black Farmers”

Nathan Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki

The Counter

“‘The Man Who Attacked Me Works in Your Kitchen’: Victim of Serial Groper Took Justice into Her Own Hands”

Amy Brittain and Maura Judkis

The Washington Post

“The Young Hands That Feed Us”

Karen Coates and Valeria Fernández

Pacific Standard

Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award

“Forget Democratic Votes. Which Presidential Hopeful Will Eat 16 Iconic SC Foods First?”; “A James Island Meat-and-Two Secretly Switched to Carolina Gold Rice. Here’s What Happened.”; “In Prisons Across South Carolina, It’s Not a Birthday Without Cake Made by a Fellow Inmate”

Hanna Raskin

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

“In Search of Hot Beef”; “Chef Jack Riebel Is in the Fight of His Life”; “Harry Singh on the Perfect Roti, Trinidad, and Life in the Kitchen”

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

“In a Wheelchair and Hungry”; “Where to Eat Regionally Inspired Mexican Food in New York City”; “How Sichuan Became NYC’s Dominant Chinese Cuisine”

Robert Sietsema

Eater New York

M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award

“A Mind to Stay Here”

Rosalind Bentley

Gravy

“My Mother’s Catfish Stew”

John T. Edge

Oxford American

“An Undeserved Gift”

Shane Mitchell

The Bitter Southerner

Personal Essay, Long Form

“The Dysfunction of Food”

Kim Foster

Kim-Foster.com

“Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri”

Rax King

Catapult

“Seeking Jewish Identity at the Sabra Hummus Factory”

Orr Shtuhl

The Forward

Personal Essay, Short Form

“For 20 Years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life”

M. Carrie Allan

The Washington Post

“How the Starbucks Macchiato Ruined My Indie Coffee Shop Experiences”

Nicole A. Taylor

Thrillist

“In Memoriam of Hominy Grill, the Restaurant That Defined Charleston”

Ali Rosen

Plate

Profile

“First Course”

Zoe Tennant

Granta

“The Fruit Saver”

Tejal Rao

Women on Food

(Abrams Press)

“The Provocations of Chef Tunde Wey”

Brett Martin

GQ Magazine

Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages

“How Climate Change Impacts Wine”

Eric Asimov

The New York Times

“May I Help You With That Wine List?”

Ray Isle

Food & Wine

“Seltzer Is Over. Mineral Water Is Forever.”

Jordan Michelman

PUNCH

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The full list of nominees

Today, on what would have been the 30th annual James Beard Awards ceremony, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2020 James Beard Awards, which honors the year’s outstanding restaurants and chefs, as well as food journalism, books, and broadcast media. The announcement was originally scheduled for March 25, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the Foundation to cancel the planned Philadelphia event and postpone both the finalists reveal and the awards themselves.

COVID-19 has left the restaurant industry in a precarious position, to put it mildly. Restaurants are pivoting their operations to stay in business, closing temporarily, and in some cases, closing for good. When the Foundation opted to postpone the finalist announcement, it acknowledged that it did so in part to focus on rebuilding the restaurant industry, awards being the last thing on anyone’s mind. And so it came as a bit of a surprise when on April 27 the Foundation announced plans to move forward with a virtual finalist announcement and, eventually, the 2020 James Beard Awards. Today, the Foundation revealed the Restaurant and Chef Awards Gala will take place in late September, and the Media Awards will take place in late May.

In a post on the James Beard Foundation website, chief strategy officer Mitchell Davis explained that the Foundation consulted with chefs, restaurateurs, and others in the industry and determined that the James Beard Awards finalists, like the list of semifinalists announced in late February, deserved recognition for their work in 2019. “Those we consulted felt the Awards could also offer a glimmer of hope to an industry looking for light in a very dark time,�� he writes. Davis acknowledged that it is also a particularly dark time for the media, which will be recognized for the first time in the 2020 James Beard Awards cycle with the finalists announcement.

Given the ongoing restrictions related to COVID-19, the format for the 2020 James Beard Awards is still undecided — but they will go on, and “take place” in Chicago at some date later this year. “We want every James Beard Award winner to have a chance to have their moment in the spotlight,” Mitchell writes. “We have partners who support this industry, who support the Foundation, who are willing to work with us to figure out what’s best for all.”

Visit Philadelphia, which stands to lose millions due to the coronavirus pandemic, is still sponsoring the virtual event. Last year, Houston hosted the finalist announcement and although there was plenty of Texas representation on the semifinalists list, including 11 chefs and restaurants from Houston, the city’s restaurants and chefs were completely shut out of the whittled down finalists list. Philadelphia didn’t see the same fate.

Below, the 2020 James Beard Awards finalists.

James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards Finalists

Best New Restaurant

Automatic Seafood & Oysters, Birmingham, AL

Demi, Minneapolis

Eem, Portland, OR

Fox & the Knife, Boston

Gado Gado, Portland, OR

Gianna, New Orleans

Kalaya, Philadelphia

Nightshade, Los Angeles

Pasjoli, Santa Monica, CA

Verjus, San Francisco

Outstanding Baker

Graison Gill, Bellegarde Bakery, New Orleans

Zachary Golper, Bien Cuit, NYC

Lisa Ludwinski, Sister Pie, Detroit

Avery Ruzicka, Manresa Bread, Los Gatos, CA

Maura Kilpatrick, Sofra Bakery, Cambridge, MA i

Outstanding Bar Program

Anvil Bar & Refuge, Houston

Expatriate, Portland, OR

Kimball House, Decatur, GA

Lost Lake, Chicago

Trick Dog, San Francisco

Outstanding Chef

David Kinch, Manresa, Los Gatos, CA

Corey Lee, Benu, San Francisco

Donald Link, Herbsaint, New Orleans

Missy Robbins, Lilia, NYC

Ana Sortun, Oleana, Cambridge, MA

Marc Vetri, Vetri Cucina, Philadelphia

Outstanding Hospitality

Brigtsen’s, New Orleans

Canlis, Seattle

Saison, San Francisco

Swan Oyster Depot, San Francisco

Zingerman’s Roadhouse, Ann Arbor, MI

Outstanding Pastry Chef

Lincoln Carson, Bon Temps, Los Angeles

Juan Contreras, Atelier Crenn, San Francisco

Margarita Manzke, République, Los Angeles

Diane Moua, Spoon and Stable, Minneapolis

Natasha Pickowicz, Flora Bar, NYC

Miro Uskokovic, Gramercy Tavern, NYC

Outstanding Restaurant

FIG, Charleston, SC

Frasca Food and Wine, Boulder, CO

Jaleo, Washington, D.C.

Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix

Quince, San Francisco

Outstanding Restaurateur

Paul Bartolotta, The Bartolotta Restaurants, Milwaukee (Ristorante Bartolotta, Harbor House, Lake Park Bistro, and others)

Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer, JK Food Group, Boston (Little Donkey, Toro, Coppa)

JoAnn Clevenger, Upperline Restaurant, New Orleans

Alex Raij and Eder Montero, NYC (La Vara, Saint Julivert Fisherie, Txikito)

Jason Wang, Xi’an Famous Foods, NYC

Outstanding Wine Program

Bacchanal, New Orleans

Canard, Portland, OR

COTE, NYC

Miller Union, Atlanta

Night + Market Sahm, Venice, CA

Spiaggia, Chicago

Outstanding Wine, Beer or Spirits Producer

Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall, High Wire Distilling Co., Charleston, SC

Cathy Corison, Corison Winery, St. Helena, CA

Drew Kulsveen, Willett Distillery, Bardstown, KY

Todd Leopold and Scott Leopold, Leopold Bros., Denver

Rising Star Chef of the Year

Will Aghajanian and Liz Johnson, The Catbird Seat, Nashville

Irene Li, Mei Mei, Boston

Gaby Maeda, State Bird Provisions, San Francisco

Ashleigh Shanti, Benne on Eagle, Asheville, NC

Paola Velez, Kith/Kin, Washington, D.C.

Jon Yao, Kato, Los Angeles

Best Chef: California

Jeremy Fox, Birdie G’s, Santa Monica, CA

Brandon Jew, Mister Jiu’s, San Francisco

Jessica Koslow, Sqirl, Los Angeles

Mourad Lahlou, Mourad, San Francisco

Joshua Skenes, Angler, San Francisco

Pim Techamuanvivit, Kin Khao, San Francisco

Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH)

Gene Kato, Momotaro, Chicago

Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, Chicago

Noah Sandoval, Oriole, Chicago

John Shields and Karen Urie Shields, Smyth, Chicago

Erick Williams, Virtue, Chicago

Lee Wolen, Boka, Chicago

Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (D.C., DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)

Amy Brandwein, Centrolina, Washington, D.C.

Nicholas Elmi, Laurel, Philadelphia

Rich Landau, Vedge, Philadelphia

Cristina Martinez, South Philly Barbacoa, Philadelphia

Jon Sybert, Tail Up Goat, Washington, D.C.

Cindy Wolf, Charleston, Baltimore

Best Chef: Midwest (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI)

Steven Brown, Tilia, Minneapolis

Michael Corvino, Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room, Kansas City, MO

Michael Gallina, Vicia, St. Louis

Jamie Malone, Grand Café, Minneapolis

Christina Nguyen, Hai Hai, Minneapolis

Best Chef: Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)

Carrie Baird, Bar Dough, Denver

Jen Castle and Blake Spalding, Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm, Boulder, UT

Jeff Drew, Snake River Grill, Jackson, WY

Caroline Glover, Annette, Aurora, CO

Dana Rodriguez, Super Mega Bien, Denver

Kelly Whitaker, The Wolf’s Tailor, Denver

Best Chef: New York State

Sean Gray, Momofuku Ko, NYC

Brooks Headley, Superiority Burger, NYC

Junghyun Park, Atomix, NYC

Daniela Soto-Innes, ATLA, NYC

Alex Stupak, Empellón, NYC

Best Chef: Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Vien Dobui, CÔNG TỬ BỘT, Portland, ME

Ben Jackson, Drifters Wife, Portland, ME

Tiffani Faison, Orfano, Boston

Krista Kern Desjarlais, The Purple House, North Yarmouth, ME

Greg Mitchell and Chad Conley, Palace Diner, Biddeford, ME

Cassie Piuma, Sarma, Somerville, MA

Best Chef: Northwest & Pacific (AK, HI, OR, WA)

Peter Cho, Han Oak, Portland, OR

Gregory Gourdet, Departure, Portland, OR

Chris Kajioka and Anthony Rush, Senia, Honolulu

Katy Millard, Coquine, Portland, OR

Kristen Murray, MÅURICE, Portland, OR

Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi, Joule, Seattle

Best Chef: South (AL, AR, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, FL, LA, MS)

Jose Enrique, Jose Enrique, San Juan, PR

Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus, Coquette, New Orleans

Michael Gulotta, Maypop, New Orleans

Mason Hereford, Turkey and the Wolf, New Orleans

Isaac Toups, Toups’ Meatery, New Orleans

Best Chef: Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV)

Katie Button, Cúrate, Asheville, NC

Cassidee Dabney, The Barn at Blackberry Farm, Walland, TN

Cheetie Kumar, Garland, Raleigh, NC

Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Memphis, TN

Julia Sullivan, Henrietta Red, Nashville

Best Chef: Southwest (AZ, NM, NV, OK)

Dan Krohmer, Other Mama, Las Vegas

Jonathan Perno, Campo at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM

Chrysa Robertson, Rancho Pinot, Scottsdale, AZ

Silvana Salcido Esparza, Barrio Café Gran Reserva, Phoenix

Jeff Smedstad, Elote Cafe, Sedona, AZ

James Trees, Esther’s Kitchen, Las Vegas

Best Chef: Texas

Kevin Fink, Emmer & Rye, Austin

Michael Fojtasek, Olamaie, Austin

Anita Jaisinghani, Pondicheri, Houston

Steve McHugh, Cured, San Antonio

Trong Nguyen, Crawfish & Noodles, Houston

America’s Classics Awards

Previously announced

El Taco de Mexico, Denver, Colorado

Lassis Inn, Little Rock, Arkansas

Oriental Mart, Seattle, Washington

Puritan Backroom, Manchester, New Hampshire

Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que, Brownsville, Texas

Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth, Frankenmouth, Michigan

Humanitarian of the Year:

Jessica B. Harris

Leadership Awards:

Phillip and Dorathy E. Barker, Operations Spring Plant

Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community Development (C2C)

Abiodun Henderson, The Come Up Project

Mark and Kerry Marhefka of Abundant Seafood

Caleb Zigas, La Cocina

James Beard Restaurant Design Awards

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Chez Panisse

Outstanding Restaurant Design, 75 Seats and Under:

SIMPLICITY for HALL by o.d.o

Heliotrope Architects for Rupee

Vermillion Architects, LLC for Spoonbill Watering Hole and Restaurant

Outstanding Restaurant Design, 76 Seats and Over:

Hacin + Associates for Shore Leave;

Ken Fulk, Inc for Swan & Bar Bevy

Klein Agency and ORA for Auburn

2020 James Beard Foundation Book Awards

For cookbooks and other non-fiction food- or beverage-related books that were published in the U.S. in 2019. Winners, including the Book of the Year Award and the Cookbook Hall of Fame inductee will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

American Books with recipes focused on the cooking or foodways of regions or communities in the United States.

Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World; Chris Shepherd and Kaitlyn Goalen, (Clarkson Potter)

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking; Toni Tipton-Martin, (Clarkson Potter)

South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations; Sean Brock, (Artisan Books)

Baking and Desserts Books with recipes focused on breads, pastries, desserts, and other treats.

Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers; Nicole Rucker, (Avery)

Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making; Daniel Leader and Lauren Chattman, (Avery)

Pastry Love: A Baker’s Journal of Favorite Recipes; Joanne Chang, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Beverage with Recipes Books focused on recipes for how to make beverages.

Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time; Brad Thomas Parsons, (Ten Speed Press)

The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World’s Greatest Drink, with Recipes; Robert Simonson, (Ten Speed Press)

The NoMad Cocktail Book; Leo Robitschek, (Ten Speed Press)

Beverage without Recipes Beverage-focused books and guides that either don’t contain recipes or that may have minimal recipes but aren’t recipe-centric.

The Complete Guide to Japanese Drinks: Sake, Shochu, Japanese Whisky, Beer, Wine, Cocktails and Other Beverages; Stephen Lyman and Chris Bunting, (Tuttle Publishing)

Red & White: An Unquenchable Thirst for Wine; Oz Clarke, (Little, Brown Book Group)

World Atlas of Wine 8th Edition; Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, (Mitchell Beazley)

General Books with recipes that address a broad scope of cooking, not just a single topic, technique or region.

All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice; Molly Stevens, (W. W. Norton & Company)

Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook; Christopher Kimball, (Voracious)

Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook; Carla Lalli Music, (Clarkson Potter)

Health and Special Diets Books with recipes related to health and nutrition, or that address specific health issues, such as allergies or diabetes.

The Beauty Chef Gut Guide: With 90+ Delicious Recipes and Weekly Meal Plans; Carla Oates, (Hardie Grant Books)

Cannelle et Vanille: Nourishing, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Meal and Mood; Aran Goyoaga, (Sasquatch Books)

Gluten-Free Baking at Home: 102 Foolproof Recipes for Delicious Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and More; Jeffrey Larsen, (Ten Speed Press)

International

Books with recipes focused on food and cooking traditions of countries or regions outside of the United States.

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light; Caroline Eden, (Quadrille Publishing)

Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa; Yohanis Gebreyesus, (Interlink Publishing)

The Food of Sichuan; Fuchsia Dunlop, (W. W. Norton & Company)

Photography

American Sfoglino: A Master Class in Handmade Pasta; Eric Wolfinger, (Chronicle Books)

Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics; Esther Choi, (Prestel)

Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico; Quentin Bacon, (Abrams Books)

Reference, History, and Scholarship Includes manuals, guides, encyclopedias, and books that present research related to food or foodways.

Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind; Nico Slate, (University of Washington Press)

A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia; Bernard L. Herman, (The University of North Carolina Press)

The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration; Chris Smith, (Chelsea Green Publishing)

Restaurant and Professional Books written by a culinary professional or restaurant chef with recipes that may include advanced cooking techniques, use specialty ingredients, and require professional equipment. This includes culinary arts textbooks.

Dishoom: From Bombay with Love; Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, and Naved Nasir, (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Eleven Madison Park: The Next Chapter, Revised and Unlimited Edition; Daniel Humm, (Ten Speed Press)

The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think; Josh Niland, (Hardie Grant Books)

Single Subject Books with recipes focused on a single or category of ingredients, a dish, or a method of cooking – such as lobster, seafood, grains, pasta, burgers, or canning. Exceptions: baking and desserts books, vegetable-focused books, health and special diets books, restaurant and professional books, and beverage books should be entered in those respective categories.

From the Oven to the Table: Simple Dishes That Look After Themselves; Diana Henry, (Mitchell Beazley)

Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook: The Secrets of Italy’s Best Home Cooks; Vicky Bennison, (Hardie Grant Books)

Sour: The Magical Element That Will Transform Your Cooking; Mark Diacono, (Quadrille Publishing)

Vegetable-Focused Cooking Books that feature recipes for how to prepare and serve vegetables and plant-based ingredients. Books may be vegetarian, vegan, or vegetable-focused with minimal reference to meats.

Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables; Abra Berens, (Chronicle Books)

Vegetables Illustrated: An Inspiring Guide with 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes; Editors at America’s Test Kitchen, (America’s Test Kitchen)

Whole Food Cooking Every Day: Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar; Amy Chaplin, (Artisan Books)

Writing Narrative nonfiction books, including memoirs, culinary tourism, investigative journalism, food advocacy, and critical analysis of food and foodways for a general audience.

Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer; Bren Smith, (Knopf)

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir; Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein, (Knopf)

Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters; Charlotte Druckman, (Abrams Press)

2020 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards

For radio, television broadcasts, podcasts, webcasts, and documentaries appearing in 2019. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Audio Program

The Food Programme – The Search for Esiah’s Seeds; Airs on: BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chili; Airs on: Audible

The Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation; Airs on: iTunes, Sporkful, Spotify, and Stitcher

Audio Reporting

California Foodways – The Curious Second Life of a Prather Ranch Cow: Biomedical Research; Trans Man Finds – and Creates – Refuge in His Family’s Small-Town Cafe; Legalizing Cannabis Impacts Food, Farming in Humboldt; Reporter: Lisa Morehouse; Airs on: KQED, California Foodways, iTunes, Google Play, Radio Public, SoundCloud, and Stitcher

Food Actually – Junk Food Actually; Reporter: Tamar Adler; Airs on: Luminary

Gravy – Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-Fried Chicken; Reporter: Betsy Shepherd; Airs on: southernfoodways.org and iTunes

Documentary

Harvest Season; Airs on: PBS

Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy; Airs on: Premiered at SXSW in March 2019

That’s My Jazz; Airs on: Vimeo

Online Video, Fixed Location and/or Instructional

Chef Studio: The Crumby Bits – Cricket Macarons; Airs on: YouTube

Grace Young – Wok Therapist; Airs on: GraceYoung.com and YouTube

Ready Jet Cook - How to Make Pad Thai with Jet Tila; Airs on: FoodNetwork.com and YouTube

Online Video, on Location

Eat, Drink, Share, Puerto Rico Food – El Burén de Lula; Airs on: YouTube

Handmade – How Knives Are Made for New York’s Best Restaurants; How a Ceramics Master Makes Plates for Michelin-Starred Restaurants; Airs on: Eater and YouTube

In Real Life – Why Eating This Fish Could Save Coral Reefs; Airs on: YouTube and AJ+

Outstanding Personality/Host

Alton Brown, Good Eats: The Return; Airs on: Food Network

David Chang, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner; Airs on: Netflix

Roy Choi; Broken Bread with Roy Choi; Airs on: Tastemade and KCET

Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location

Good Eats: The Return – American Classic: Chicken Parm; Airs on: Food Network

Lidia’s Kitchen – Trattoria Favorites; Airs on: PBS

Pati’s Mexican Table – A Local’s Tour of Culiacán; Airs on: WETA; distributed nationally by American Public Television

Television Program, on Location

Chef’s Table – Asma Khan; Airs on: Netflix

Las Crónicas del Taco (Taco Chronicles) – Canasta; Airs on: Netflix

Street Food – Bangkok, Thailand; Airs on: Netflix

Visual and Audio Technical Excellence

Chef’s Table; Adam Bricker, Chloe Weaver, and Will Basanta; Airs on: Netflix

Street Food; Alexander D. Paul, Matthew Chavez, and Shane Reed; Airs on: Netflix

The Taste of Place – Wild Rice; Jesse Roesler and Kevin Russell; Airs on: Vimeo

Visual Reporting (on TV or Online)

Fork the System – Moro Food of Muslim Mindanao: This is Filipino, Too; Reporters: Joi Lee and HyoJin Park; Airs on: Al Jazeera English Digital, YouTube, and Facebook

In Real Life– Why This $300 Clam Is so Important to Native Americans and China; Reporters: AJ+ Staff; Airs on: YouTube and AJ+

Rotten – The Avocado War; Reporters: Christine Haughney, Erin Cauchi, and Gretchen Goetz; Airs on: Netflix

2020 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Finalists

For articles published in English in 2019. Winners, including the Emerging Voice Award, will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Columns

What She’s Having: “Popeyes’ Fried Chicken Sandwich: A Delicious Distraction, a Cultural Lesson”; “Every Season Is Soup Season”; “Why a Somali Nook in East Boston Is One of the Country’s Best New Restaurants” — Devra First, The Boston Globe

Power Rankings: “The Official Fast Food French Fry Power Rankings”; “The Official Spicy Snack Power Rankings”; “The Official Domestic Beer Power Rankings” — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times

Rooted in Place: “In Service”; “Hair, Food, and Hustle”; “The Best That We’ve Got” — Rosalind Bentley, Gravy

Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award

“Le Colonial Is an Orientalist Specter”; “The Ultimate Chaat Truck Crawl”; “The Fantasy — and Reality — of Dining at Chez Panisse” — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle

“NYC’s Buzziest New Sushi Parlors Are Transcendent, If You Can Handle the Bros”; “Wall Street’s Underground Russian Spa Is a Dining Destination for the Soul”; “Estiatorio Milos Is One of the Last Big Restaurant Scams in New York” —Ryan Sutton

Eater New York

“Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.”; “The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain”; “Benno, Proudly Out of Step With the Age”

Pete Wells

The New York Times

Dining and Travel

“In Pursuit of the Perfect Pizza”

Matt Goulding

Airbnb Magazine

“Interview With the Vampiro”

Dylan James Ho

Taste

“These Are the World’s Best Restaurants: North America, South America, Africa and Middle East”

Besha Rodell

Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine

Feature Reporting

America’s farmers in crisis during Trump’s trade wars: “Left Behind: Farmers Fight to Save Their Land in Rural Minnesota as Trade War Intensifies”; “’I’m Gonna Lose Everything’: A Farm Family Struggles to Recover after Rising Debt Pushes a Husband to Suicide”; “In Trump Country, a Season of Need on Family Farms”

Annie Gowen

The Washington Post

“The Great Land Robbery”

Vann R. Newkirk II

The Atlantic

“Value Meal”

Tad Friend

The New Yorker

Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication

The Bitter Southerner

Gastro Obscura

The New Yorker

Foodways

“An Indigenous Community in Mexico Finds Its Voice — and Strength — in Wild Mushrooms”

Michael Snyder

Los Angeles Times

“On Hawaii, the Fight for Taro’s Revival”

Ligaya Mishan

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

“A Real Hot Mess: How Grits Got Weaponized Against Cheating Men”

Cynthia R. Greenlee

MUNCHIES | Food by VICE

Health and Wellness

“The AGEs Puzzle: How We Cook Food Is Killing Us. Scientists in SC Know Why.”; “9 Easy Ways to Eat Fewer AGEs: A Stress-Free Guide”

Tony Bartelme

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

“How Washington Keeps America Sick and Fat”; “Meet the Silicon Valley Investor Who Wants Washington to Figure Out What You Should Eat”

Catherine Boudreau and Helena Bottemiller Evich

Politico

“Protein Nation”

Shaun Dreisbach

EatingWell

Home Cooking

“6 Holiday Cookies That Will Win You the Cookie Swap”

Hilary Cadigan and Rick Martinez

Bon Appétit

“Fry Time”

Nancy Singleton Hachisu

Saveur

“In Praise of Schmaltz”

Rachel Handler

Grub Street

Innovative Storytelling

“Best New Restaurants 2019”

Kevin Alexander, Nicole A. Taylor, and Adriana Velez

Thrillist

“Food and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”

Gary He, Matt Buchanan, and Meghan McCarron

Eater

“Made in America”

Tim Carman and Shelly Tan

The Washington Post

Investigative Reporting

“How USDA Distorted Data to Conceal Decades of Discrimination Against Black Farmers”

Nathan Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki

The Counter

“‘The Man Who Attacked Me Works in Your Kitchen’: Victim of Serial Groper Took Justice into Her Own Hands”

Amy Brittain and Maura Judkis

The Washington Post

“The Young Hands That Feed Us”

Karen Coates and Valeria Fernández

Pacific Standard

Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award

“Forget Democratic Votes. Which Presidential Hopeful Will Eat 16 Iconic SC Foods First?”; “A James Island Meat-and-Two Secretly Switched to Carolina Gold Rice. Here’s What Happened.”; “In Prisons Across South Carolina, It’s Not a Birthday Without Cake Made by a Fellow Inmate”

Hanna Raskin

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

“In Search of Hot Beef”; “Chef Jack Riebel Is in the Fight of His Life”; “Harry Singh on the Perfect Roti, Trinidad, and Life in the Kitchen��

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

“In a Wheelchair and Hungry”; “Where to Eat Regionally Inspired Mexican Food in New York City”; “How Sichuan Became NYC’s Dominant Chinese Cuisine”

Robert Sietsema

Eater New York

M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award

“A Mind to Stay Here”

Rosalind Bentley

Gravy

“My Mother’s Catfish Stew”

John T. Edge

Oxford American

“An Undeserved Gift”

Shane Mitchell

The Bitter Southerner

Personal Essay, Long Form

“The Dysfunction of Food”

Kim Foster

Kim-Foster.com

“Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri”

Rax King

Catapult

“Seeking Jewish Identity at the Sabra Hummus Factory”

Orr Shtuhl

The Forward

Personal Essay, Short Form

“For 20 Years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life”

M. Carrie Allan

The Washington Post

“How the Starbucks Macchiato Ruined My Indie Coffee Shop Experiences”

Nicole A. Taylor

Thrillist

“In Memoriam of Hominy Grill, the Restaurant That Defined Charleston”

Ali Rosen

Plate

Profile

“First Course”

Zoe Tennant

Granta

“The Fruit Saver”

Tejal Rao

Women on Food

(Abrams Press)

“The Provocations of Chef Tunde Wey”

Brett Martin

GQ Magazine

Wine, Spirits, and Other Beverages

“How Climate Change Impacts Wine”

Eric Asimov

The New York Times

“May I Help You With That Wine List?”

Ray Isle

Food & Wine

“Seltzer Is Over. Mineral Water Is Forever.”

Jordan Michelman

PUNCH

Disclosure: Some Vox Media staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Foundation Awards.

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This is my lucky mug. Sometimes called my “lucky writing mug.” In September 2010 my friend John and I had a nice breakfast at Carson’s General Store in Noank. I got this mug there and we got on the Block Island Ferry. We made no plans or reservations, just had a drink on the boat and asked around town when we got there. We can for the weekend. I stayed for a month. 🗺 During that month I gleefully and maniacally wrote my first book while sitting in a low beach chair in a little shanty by the ferry landing. This was the only mug I had. At night I walked into town and saw beach rock bands do cover songs. It was the most joyful existence you could have with two changes of clothes. 🗺 At some point in the season the ferry stopped running and I ended up flying to the mainland and made my way home. I sold the book that year. 🗺 Every week when I empty the dishwasher I smile when I put this mug away. Then when it comes up in rotation I would cheer to myself. “Lucky writing mug!” I would fill the cup and hope for some of that Block Island magic to return. 🗺 This year I had a really hard winter. And many days I would grab a mug and when I saw that my lucky mug came up in rotation I would put it back. I didn’t want or feel like I deserved that kind of writing magic. 🗺 I made some major adjustments in life this year and have been trying to reprogram myself. I think it came from going to too many funerals for people my age. It’s a bit soon for that. But I’ve changed my unconscious mantra from making a list of things I’ll do “later” to just saying to myself “what are you waiting for?” 🗺 Last week my friend John and I went back to Carson’s. And I bought out the entire supply of these mugs. I told the teenager working the desk about my lucky mug. One said, “Aren’t you worried that you’ll press your luck?” 🗺 I said, “No. This way I’ll have one for every day. But I won’t know if it’s really my lucky mug until I start working.” 🗺 What they don’t tell you in art school is that inspiration is bullshit. Sit down. Get to work. The magic comes later 🗺 Starting in Summer 2019 I am reprogramming one more thing: Everyday that I’m alive and there is coffee is a good writing day. 👊 (at Carson's Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1b18NOHmy8/?igshid=9gk5nwi5g1b4