March 24, 2009

Southern Foodways Alliance Powers the James Beard Awards

We congratulate James Beard Nominees...we are lucky enough to count these folks as both good friends and rockstar clients...as if it weren't that easy to tell...here is our slate..and yes, at times we have to ride two horses with one....

Hugh Acheson (SFA)
Five and Ten
Athens, GA

Chef Sean Brock (SFA)
McCrady's
Charleston, SC

Linton Hopkins (SFA)
Restaurant Eugene
Atlanta


Pals we are pulling for.....

Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook (SFA)
by Martha Hall Foose
(Clarkson Potter)

Julian P. Van Winkle, III (SFA)
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery
Louisville, KY

Highlands Bar & Grill (SFA)
Birmingham, AL
Chef/Owner: Frank Stitt

Blackberry Farm (SFA)
Walland, TN
Wine Director: Andy Chabot

Alex Young (SFA)
Zingerman's Roadhouse
Ann Arbor, MI

Wylie Dufresne
WD-50

Mike Lata (SFA)
Fig
Charleston, SC

John Currence (SFA)
City Grocery
Oxford, MS