The James Beard Award for Reference & Scholarship Goes To...
Cathy Donnelly and The Oxford Companion to Cheese!!! Cathy brought me along as her date, and it was a thrilling and memorable night. (Memorable despite the dangerous ring of cocktail and wine stations that we circulated around during the cocktail hour, and the attentive waiters that filled our glasses during the awards.) The Reference & Scholarship award came unbelievably quickly, sometime during Chef Maricel Presilla's excellent shrimp ceviche appetizer, and there wasn't tim