Fifteen Years of Excellence: The Livanos Family Peter Assue City Limits Diner White Plains, NY Tracy Kamerdyk Assue City Limits Diner White Plains, NY Jim Botsacos Molyvos NYC David Carmichael Oceana NYC Mark Filippo Cafe Mezé Hartsdale, NY Rick Moonen Oceana NYC Mark Urato City Limits Diner White Plains, NY

Carolina Comfort Tom Condron Mimosa Grill Charlotte, NC

First Friday Luncheon Saul Bolton Saul Brooklyn, NY

Detroit Friends of James Beard Benefit Takashi Yagihashi Tribute Sanford D'Amato Sanford Restaurant Milwaukee Rocco DiSpirito Union Pacific NYC Suzanne Goin Lucques Los Angeres Debbie gold and Michael Smith American Restaurant Kansas City, MO

Todd Hogan Wildberries, a Bistro Duluth, GA

The Heirloom Pork Dinner Todd Downs Sandcreek Country Club South Chesterton, IN Anne Kearney Peristyle New Orleans Robert Merrifield The Polo Grill Tulsa, OK Stephen Simmons Savanna Grill Corte Madiera, CA Tim Soufan Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Dallas

Tequila Fiesta Paul LoDuca Adobo Grill Chicago

Summer Sunset Cruise and Dinner Wayne Tuman On the Inamorata (World Yacht Company) NYC

Jeffrey Russell Ventana Room at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Tucson, AZ

James and Stacey McDevitt Restaurant Hapa Scottsdale, AZ

Barilla Italian Luncheon Mark Ladner Lupa NYC

Don Diem Noche Atlanta

Wine Lovers' Dinner Bernard Laskowski Bin 36 Chicago

Jay Swift South City Kitchen Atlanta

Summer Cornfest Neal Langermann Georgia Brown's Washington, DC

Sanford's 9th Annual Friends of James Beard Benefit Sanford D'Amato Sanford Restaurant Jeffrey Buben Bis, Vidalia Washington, DC Ann Cashion Cashion's Eat Place Washington, DC Herbert Keller Fleur de Lys San Francisco Michael Schlow Radius Boston Terry Theise Terry Theise Wine Selections Washington, DC Norman Van Aken Norman's Coral Gables, FL

Moon Harvest Festival Deborah Stanton and Eleazar Martinez Woo Lae Oak NYC

The Brewers' Banquet II Floyd Cardoz Tabla NYC Garrett Oliver The Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn, NY