Texans Up For Beard 2004 Awards

[Richard Kilgore]

Six Texans Received nominations, plus several eGullet members. Congratulations to all. (Plus several ex-pats, see Robb Walsh post below.) Edited to include the nominees I missed on the first posting.

Nominees for American Express Best Chef Southwest

Bruce Auden

Biga on the Banks

203 S. St. Mary’s Street

San Antonio, TX 78205

210-225-0722

Sharon Hage

York Street

6047 Lewis Street

Dallas, TX 75206

214-826-0968

Tim Keating

Quattro at

The Four Seasons

1300 Lamar Street

Houston, TX 77010

713-652-6250

Kent Rathbun

Abacus

4511 McKinney Avenue

Dallas, TX 75205

214-559-3111

Nominated for the James Beard Journalism Award in the Category: newspaper, magazine or internet reporting on consumer issues,

Nancy Nichols

D Magazine

“Death on the Half Shell”

5/03

Nominated for the James Beard Journalism Award in the Category: newspaper review or critique

Alison Cook

Houston Chronicle

Also of Note a nomination for MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award to

John T. Edge

Oxford American

“The Gathering Place”

1-2/03

And many eGullet Members nominated including Paula Wolfert, Russ Parsons, Jeffrey Steingarten and Jim Dixon.

Click here for the full list of nominees.

Edited March 13, 2004 by Richard Kilgore (log)

[ExtraMSG]

Isn't Rathbun nominated, too?

[Richard Kilgore]

ExtraMSG -- Maybe I missed it. What award and category do you find him nominated for?

[ExtraMSG]

Best Chef SW. Bruce Auden of San Antonio, too. Instead of 2 of 4, it's actually 4 of 6.

[ExtraMSG]

There was also a D Magazine nomination for an article.

[franktex]

And Alison Cook(Houston Chronicle) for food critic. She's a great writer-I hope she wins!

[fifi]

I was also about to mention that they misspelled her name. ONE "L" please! I did a happy dance when I saw that Alison was nominated. She has brought some real class to the Chronicle.

[Robb Walsh]

I was very happy to see my friends Alison Cook and John T. Edge nominated as well.

Also great to see my buddy and former Austin Chronicle restaurant reviewer Pableaux Johnson nominated for his wonderful piece in the Gambit (New Orleans) on Anthony Uglesich. He was spending the night at mi casa in Houston on his way to SXSW when he got the news, so we had a toast or two.

Former Austinite Conde Cox, who now lives in Oregon, is up for a magazine writing about wine and spirits award.

Edited March 12, 2004 by Robb Walsh (log)

[Richard Kilgore]

Thanks to everyone for alerting me to the nominees I missed. I have added to the first post Kent Rathbun, Bruce Auden, and Alison Cook, who I overlooked on first posting due to my wonky monitor and zipping though the list a little too fast. And Robb's post above covers the ex-pats.

[SillyNilly]

I remember reading the D piece on Oysters. Didn't some people die? Anybody remember the restuarant?

[Richard Kilgore]

Welcome Silly Nilly. Hope you join in and post in the Texas Forum often. I don't have a copy at hand, but someone will be able to comment.

[Raynickben]

I remember reading the D piece on Oysters. Didn't some people die? Anybody remember the restuarant?

Two people died and it was at one of the Half Shells or Rockfish locations (I believe they are owned or were owned by the same people). Anyway, the point of the article was more about the dangers of eating raw oysters ANYWHERE rather than something the restaurant did specifically wrong or dangerous.

[Richard Kilgore]

This discussion of Nancy Nichols article, Death on the Half Shell deserves its own thread. I have started one here.

[spoonbread]

I believe this is the 4th time Bruce Auden has been nominated. I hope he gets this one!