List of James Beard Cookbook Award Winners

The James Beard nominations represent the pinnacle of achievement in the culinary publishing world, signaling books that offer outstanding recipes, insightful writing, and significant contributions to our understanding and enjoyment of food. However, I hate the layout of the James Beard Foundation Awards website. Navigating it feel like an expedition.

As a dedicated home cook and cookbook enthusiast, I found myself wishing for a straightforward, comprehensive list of these celebrated culinary works. Fueled by an adible and a touch of delightful obsession, this page was born. Here you'll find a curated collection, making it easy to explore the very best in cookbooks according to the James Beard Foundation.

This list is a work in progress and currently only has the winners of most categories, but stay tuned as I meticulously work to get every award winner on here, creating the ultimate resource for anyone seeking truly remarkable cookbooks.

If you want to see a full list that includes the nominees you will want to flip over to my JBF Nominees page here. Why seperate them? Because more than one person asked me to and I am a people pleaser.

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Year	Author	Cookbook Title	My Score
2025	Carolina Gelen	Pass the Plate: 100 Delicious, Highly Shareable, Everyday Recipes
2024	Sohla El-Waylly	Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
2023	Andy Baraghani	The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress	Link
2022	Gregory Gourdet, JJ Goode	Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health
2020	Carla Lalli Music	Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook
2019	Christopher Kimball	MILK STREET: Tuesday Nights
2018	Samin Nosrat	Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
2017	Meike Peters	Eat in My Kitchen: To Cook, to Bake, to Eat, and to Treat
2016	J Kenji Lopez-Alt	The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
2015	Sara Kate Gillingham, Faith Durand	The Kitchn Cookbook: Recipes, Kitchens & Tips to Inspire Your Cooking
2014	Tim P Byres	Smoke: New Firewood Cooking
2013	Christopher Hirsheimer, Melissa Hamilton	Canal House Cooks Everyday
2012	Michael Ruhlman	Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook's Manifesto
2011	Amanda Hesser	The Essential NYT Cookbook (Updated 2021)
2010	Dave Cruz, Thomas A Keller	Ad Hoc at Home
2009	Mark Bittman	How to Cook Everything,10th Anniversary Edition
2008	James Peterson	Cooking
2007	Roy Finamore	Tasty
2006	Jill Norman	The Cook's Book
2005	Joanne Weir	Weir Cooking in the City
2004	Cooks Illustrated	The Quick Recipe
2002	Art Smith	Back to the Table
2001	Tom Colicchio	Think Like a Chef
2000	Julia Child, Jacques Pepin	Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
1998	Madeleine Kamman	The New Making of a Cook
1997	Rozanne Gold	Recipes 1-2-3
1996	Jim Fobel	Jim Fobel's Big Flavors
1995	Elaine Corn	Now You're Cooking
1994	Rozanne Gold	Little Meals
1993	Joyce Goldstein	Back to Square One
1992	Edward Giobbi	Pleasures of the Good Earth
1990	Anne Willan	La Varenne Pratique

Year	Author	Cookbook Title
2025	Mingoo Kang, Nadia Cho, Joshua Stein	Jang: The Soul of Korean Cooking
2024	Meryl Feinstein	Pasta Every Day: Make It, Shape It, Sauce It, Eat It
2023	James Lopez-Alt	The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
2022	Jesse Griffiths	The Hog Book: A Chef's Guide to Hunting, Butchering and Cooking Wild Pigs
2020	Vicky Bennison	Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks
2019	James Whetlor	Goat: Cooking and Eating
2018	Andrea Nguyen	The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles
2017	Nick Haddow	Milk Made: A Book About Cheese How to Choose it, Serve it and Eat it
2016	Diana Henry	A Bird in the Hand: Chicken recipes for every day and every mood
2015	Jennifer McLagan	Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor
2014	John Ash, James O Fraioli	Culinary Birds: The Ultimate Poultry Cookbook
2013	Nigel Slater	Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard
2012	Molly Stevens	All About Roasting: A New Approach to a Classic Art
2011	James Peterson	Meat: A Kitchen Education
2010	Ronald Suhanosky, Susan Simon	Pasta Sfoglia
2009	Jennifer McLagan	Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient
2008	Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall	The River Cottage Meat Book
2007	John Scharffenberger, Robert Steinberg	Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate
2006	Jennifer McLagan	Bones: Recipes, History and Lore
2005	Molly Stevens	All About Braising
2004	Laura Werlin	The All American Cheese and Wine Book
2003	Deborah Krasner	The Flavors of Olive Oil
2002	Aliza Green, Guillermo Pernot	Ceviche!
2001	Marie Simmons	The Good Egg
2000	Editors of Cook's Illustrated	The Cooks Illustrated Complete Book of Poultry
1999	Janie Hibler	Wild About Game
1998	Rebecca Wood	The Splendid Grain
1997	Tan Leng, Christian Teubner, Silvio Rizzi	The Pasta Bible
1996	Mimi Sheraton	The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup
1995	Marcel Desaulniers	The Burger Meisters
1994	Sheryl London	A Seafood Celebration
1993	Jeanne Lemesle	Preserving Today
1992	James Peterson	Sauces
1991	Susan Costner	Susan Costner's Great Sandwiches
1990	Alan Davidson	Seafood
1990	Emelie Tolley	Cooking with Herbs

Year	Author	Cookbook Title
2025	Irina Janakievska	The Balkan Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Balkans
2024	José Andrés, World Central Kitchen, Sam Chapple-Sokol	The World Central Kitchen Cookbook
2023	Rick Martinez	Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico
2022	Hawa Hassan, Julia Tershen	In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean
2020	Jeff Koehler, Yohanis Gebreyesus	Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa
2019	Anissa Helou	Feast: Food of the Islamic World
2018	Gonzalo Guzman, Stacy Adimando	Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen
2017	Naomi Duguid	Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
2016	Michael Solomonov, Steven Cook	Zahav: A world of Israeli Cooking
2015	David Sterling	Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition
2014	Fuchsia Dunlop	Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking
2013	Paula Wolfert	The Food of Morocco
2012	Yottam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi	Jerusalem: A Cookbook
2011	Grace Young	Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge
2010	Colman Andrews	The Country Cooking of Ireland
2010	The International Culinary Center	Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry ...
2009	Naomi Duguid , Jeffrey Alford	Beyond the Great Wall
2008	France Ruffenach , Anne Willan	The Country Cooking of France
2007	Marcus Samuelsson	The Soul of a New Cuisine
2006	Mario Batalli	Molto Italiano
2005	Patricia Wells	Provence Cookbook
2004	Madhur Jaffrey	From Curries to Kebabs
2003	David Thompson	Thai Food
2002	Madhur Jaffrey	Madhur Jaffrey's Step-by-Step Cooking
2001	JeanMarie Brownson , Jennifer Fite , Deanne Bayl	Mexico One Plate at a Time
2000	Madhur Jaffrey	Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
1999	Paula Wolfert	Mediterranean Grains and Greens
1998	Georgeann Brennan	The Food and Flavors of Haute Provence
1997	Patricia Wells	Patricia Wells at Home in Provence
1996	Susanna Foo	Susanna Foo Chinese Cuisine
1995	Paula Wolfert	The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean
1994	Madhur Jaffrey	Madhur Jaffrey's A Taste of the Far East
1994	Yamuna Devi	Fruits , Vegetables & Grains
1993	Faye Levy	Yamuna's Table
1992	Patricia Wells	Simply French
1991	Anya von Bremzen	Please to the Table : A Russian Cookbook
1990	Nicole Routhier	The Foods of Vietnam

Year	Author	Cookbook Title	My Score
2025	Nicola Lamb	Sift: The Elements of Great Baking
2024	Regula Ysewijn	Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival Baking from Belgium, the Heart of the Low Countries
2023	Irina Georgescu	Tava: Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond
2023	Maurizio Leo	The Perfect Loaf	Link
2022	Daniel Leader , Lauren Chattman	Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making
2022	Kristina Cho	Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries
2020	Greg Malouf, Lucy Malouf	SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East
2020	Stella Parks	BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts
2019	Dorie Greenspan	Dorie's Cookies
2018	Sarah Owens	Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More
2017	Alice Medrich	Gluten-Free Flavor Flours: A New Way to Bake with Non-Wheat Flours
2016	Jacquy Pfeiffer, Martha Rose Shulman	The Art of French Pastry
2015	Ken Forkish	Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza	Link
2014	Jeni Britton Bauer	Jeni's Spendid Ice Creams
2013	Kimberly Boyce	Good to the Grain
2012	James Peterson	Baking
2011	Shirley Corriher	Bakewise : The Hows and Whys
2010	Peter Reinhart	Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
2009	Dorie Greenspan	Baking : From my Home to Yours
2008	Richard Bertinet	Dough : Simple Contemporary Bread
2007	Beatrice Ojakangas	The Great Scandinavian Baking Book
2006	Maggie Glezer	A Blessing of Bread
2005	King Arthur Flour	The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion
2005	Greg Patent	Baking in America
2004	Peter Reinhart	The Break Baker's Apprentice
2003	Maggie Glezer	Artisan Baking Across America
2002	Beth Hensperger	The Bread Bible
2001	Peter Reinhart	Crust & Crumb
2000	Charlie Van Over	The Best Bread Ever
1999	Dorie Greenspan	Baking with Julia
1998	Nicholas Malgieri	How to Bake
1997	Richard Sax	Classic Home Desserts
1996	George Greenstein	Secrets of a Jewish Baker
1995	Marcel Desaulniers	Death by Chocolate
1994	Carole Walter	Great Cakes
1993	Maurice Bernachon	A Passion for Chocolate
1992	Rose Levy Beranbaum	Rose's Christmas Cookies

Year	Author	Cookbook Title
2025	Rose Levy Beranbaum	The Baking Bible & 11 Other Works
2023	Joseph G. Randall	The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
2022	Judy Rodgers
2020	Janis Robinson
2019	Jessica B Harris
2018	Betty Fussell
2017	Judith A Jones
2016	Deborah Madison
2015	Barbara Kafka
2014	Diana Kennedy
2013	Anne Willan	Home Cooking, More Cooking
2012	Laurie Colwin
2011	Harold McGee	On Food and Cooking
2010	Claudia Roden	A Book of Middle Eastern Food
2009	Jane Grigson	Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book
2008	Paula Wolfert	Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco
2007	Mollia Katzen	Moosewood Cookbook
2006	Madhur Jaffrey	An Invitation to Indian Cooking
2005	Beatrice Ojakangas	The Great Scandinavian Baking Book
2004	Barbara Tropp	The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking
2003	Edna Lewis	The Edna Lewis Cookbook, In Pursuit of Flavor, The Taste of Country Cooking, Gift of Southern Cooking
2002	Alan Davidson	North Atlantic Seafood
2001	Elizabeth David	A Book of Mediterranean Food
2000	Marcella Hazan	Classic Italian Cookbook
1999	Jean Anderson	The Doubleday Cookbook, Jean Anderson Cooks, The Food of Portugal, The Nutrition Bible, The American Century Cookbook
1998	Maida Heatter	Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts
1997	Elizabeth David	French Provincial Cooking
1996	Jacques Pepin	La Technique and La Methode
1995	Bert Greene	Greene on Greens
1994	Calvin Trillin	Alice Lets Eat, American Fried, and Third Helpings
1993	Marian Burros	Simple French Food
1992	Sheila Lukins, Julee Rosso	The Silver Palate Cookbook
1991	Waverly Root	The Food of France and The Food of Italy
1990	MFK Fisher	The Art of Eating