The 2009 awards were in Monday. One article I read mentioned the only way these awards could reach Oscar-worthy notoriety is if it was broadcast live. As Thomas Keller makes abundantly clear, not all celebrity chefs are comfortable with the camera (and apparently some journalists can only muster questions like “What did you eat for breakfast?”). I scrolled passed the obvious celebrity of Momofuku Ko, Dan Barber, and Jean Georges to the journalism awards.

Here are 2008′s best food articles:

• “Sushi Bullies”, Katy McLaughlin, The Wall Street Journal
• “The Pope of Pork”, Kristen Hinman, Riverfront Times
• “High on the Hairy Hogs: Super-Succulent Imports are Everything U.S. Pork Isn’t”, Rebekah Denn, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• “The Last Time I Saw Paris…”, Ruth Reichl, Gourmet
• “What is Southern?”, Edna Lewis, Gourmet
• “Made (Better) in Japan”, Alan Richman, GQ
• “Faux French,” “The Mario of Midtown,” “Corton on Hudson”, Adam Platt, New York Magazine
• “How to Feed Your Mind”, Rachael Moeller Gorman, EatingWell
• “¡Viva La Revolución!”, Alan Richman, GQ
• “Benedictions”, Aleksandra Crapanzano, Gourmet

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