James Beard Award Winners: 2006-2010
The James Beard Award honors American chefs and leaders for excellence in culinary endeavors. Each year, there are approximately 50 nominees and winners. Between 2006-2010, there were 86 new chefs nominated to the James Beard Award.
We have added all nominations/winners for the years of 2006-2010 to a GoogleDoc containing names of nominees and winners since 1991. All information was gathered through the James Beard Award website for Best Chef. Names with multi-year nominations were added once and their nomination years were specified.
James Beard Award nominees/Winners: 2006-2010
Between 2006-2010, the James Beard award nominated about 50 individuals to the Best Chef Award. Many of the nominees and winners of those years had been nominated or named winners in previous years. Specifically, of the ~250 nominees/winners between 2006-2010, there were 86 new nominees/winners that had not received previous nominations.
Among the new nominees between 2006-2010, the following chefs were nominated: Gerald Hirigoyen
Carlos Guia
Gabriel Kreuther
Stephanie Kimmel
Christopher Lee
Donald Link
John Fleer
Carrie Nahabedian
Roland Passot
Scott Peacock
Brian Polcyn
Bradford Thompson
Michael Tusk
Andrew Weissman
Cindy Wolf
Grant Achatz
Hugh Acheson
Cathal Armstrong
Arnaud Berthelier
David Bull
RJ Cooper
Wylie Dufresne
Jonathan Eismann
Robert Evans
Jose Garces
Colby Garrelts
Christopher Hastings
Maria Hines
Douglas Keane
Michael Lata
TIm McKee
Monica Pope
Maricel Presilla
Alexander Roberts
Bruce Sherman
Adam Siegel
Michael Symon
Celina Tio
Alex Young
Michael Anthony
Isaac Becker
Zach Bell
David Chang
Saipin Chutima
Patrick Connolly
Scott Dolich
Graham Elliot Bowles
Ryan Hardy
Linton Hopkins
David Kinch
Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson
David Myers
Robert Stehling
Ethan Stowell
Jason Wilson
Eric Ziebold
Gerard Craft
Jeremy Fox
Koren Grieveson
Gabrielle Hamilton
John Harris
Loretta Keller
Claude Le Tohic
Tony Maws
Daniel Patterson
Michael Schwartz
Bill Smith
Vikram Sunderam
Catherine Whims
Scott Boswell
Sean Brock
Michael Carson
Bryan Caswell
Michael Cimarusti
Daniel Humm
Peter Kelly
Jeff Michaud
Matt Molina
Rick Moonen
Naomi Pomeroy
Andrea Reusing
Andy Ricker
Lenny Russo
Michael Solomonov
Bryan Voltaggio
Michael White
Conclusion
We have researched and added information about the 2006-2010 nominees and winners of the James Beard Award to the GoogleDoc containing information about the nominees/winners from 1991-2010. There were an additional 86 chefs receiving new nominations to the award between the years of 2006-2010.