AltWeekly Awards
2012 Food Writing Below 50,000
2nd Place: Suddenly Sushi; The Spirits That Move Them; and Resurrecting Hops by Corin Hirsch , Seven Days2011 Food Writing Above 50,000
1st Place: Minette Men, Here Come The Rooster and Waiting For Good Dough by Drew Lazor , Philadelphia City Paper2011 Food Writing Below 50,000
1st Place: Three-Bird Night, Fresh Fare and Raising the Steaks by Alice Levitt , Seven Days2010 Food Writing Above 50,000
1st Place: Floria del Rio Will Get Your Goat, Hare Today, Wild-Boar Sopes Tomorrow and So Sorry, So Good by Jonathan Gold , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs, Drawing Room Comedy and Healing from a Hot Pot
by Jonathan Kauffman
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Seattle Weekly
3rd Place: Superhero Me, The Urban Survivalist and Slaughterhouse Live
by Rachel Hutton
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City Pages (Twin Cities)
Honorable Mention: How Not to Hire a Chef, Dear Zagat and Banh Mi--in D.C.?
by Tim Carman
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Washington City Paper
2010 Food Writing Below 50,000
1st Place: Back to the Table, The Cocktail's Hour and Ch-Ch-Changing Appetites by Carrington Fox , Nashville Scene
2nd Place: Hog Wild
by Brian Ries
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Creative Loafing (Sarasota)
3rd Place: Clove at First Bite (PDF), Alligator Wrestling (PDF) and Dramatic Results (PDF)
by Ian McNulty
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Gambit
Honorable Mention: A Fire in the Bear's Den, Tears for Beers and Offally Good
by Andy Murdoch
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The Coast, Halifax's Weekly
2009 Food Writing Above 50,000
1st Place: Breaking Free, Keep on Trucking and A Proper Brasserie by Jonathan Gold , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: The Pope of Pork
by Kristen Hinman
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Riverfront Times
3rd Place: Spam: It's not just for Inboxes, With Honeycrisp's Patent and Manny's Attempts to Raise the Steaks
by Rachel Hutton
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City Pages (Twin Cities)
2009 Food Writing Below 50,000
1st Place: The Jester’s Quest by Christina Waters , Good Times Santa Cruz
2nd Place: Spit Fire Flavor
by Mark C Anderson
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Monterey County Weekly
3rd Place: Fast Approaching, Chase the Dragon and Peanut Gallery
by A. Qasimi
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Santa Fe Reporter
2008 Food Writing Above 55,000
1st Place: Then There Was None, Port is the Answer? and Colonel Mustard by Dara Moskowitz , City Pages (Twin Cities)
2nd Place: Dancing the Lobster Quadrille, Split Decision? and The Undersea World of Toby Joseph
by Gail Shepherd
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach
3rd Place: Eat Shit and Die, Chew the Right Thing and Flapjack Flip-Off VII: Bananarama!
by Lee Klein
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Miami New Times