Comments on: James Beard Award Nods: Boston Yawns http://www.bostonmagazine.com/chowder/2008/03/24/james-beard-award-nods-boston-yawns/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:04:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: john doe /chowder/2008/03/24/james-beard-award-nods-boston-yawns/#comment-85 john doe Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:03:00 +0000 /chowder/2008/03/24/james-beard-award-nods-boston-yawns/#comment-85 agreed about the redundancy of the chef candidates. And why are all the restaurants represented by these chefs expensive, white-tablecloth, tasting menu style places, if not French then in the french tradition (with marketing firms)? Some of these marginal nominees very obviously get in there year after year by "working the old-boy network". I thought that the original mission of the Beard Foundation was to promote american cooking and the work of distinctively american chefs . . . agreed about the redundancy of the chef candidates. And why are all the restaurants represented by these chefs expensive, white-tablecloth, tasting menu style places, if not French then in the french tradition (with marketing firms)? Some of these marginal nominees very obviously get in there year after year by “working the old-boy network”.

I thought that the original mission of the Beard Foundation was to promote american cooking and the work of distinctively american chefs . . .

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