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6 James Beard America’s Classics Award winners unveiled

Buffalo fish ribs, fried chicken dinners and barbecued cow’s head celebrated in 2020 class

Lisa Jennings, Executive Editor

February 21, 2020

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James Beard Foundation unveils its six recipients of its America’s Classics Award. Winners this year include longtime favorites from Arkansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, Seattle, Denver and Brownsville, Texas.

Dishes like buffalo (fish) ribs, fried chicken dinners, political candidate-friendly comfort foods, Filipino adobo, barbecued cow’s heads and pork burritos are in the spotlight this week as the James Beard Foundation unveils its six recipients of its America’s Classics Award.

This award goes to locally owned restaurants that have a timeless appeal and are beloved regionally for quality food that reflects the character of its community, the foundation said. More than 100 restaurants across the country have been named America’s Classics since the category was introduced in 1998.

Winners this year include longtime favorites from Arkansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, Seattle, Denver and Brownsville, Texas.

Like the Beard Award winners to come later this year — it’s the 30th anniversary of the Beard Awards — the Classics honorees will be celebrated at the annual James Beard Awards gala, which is scheduled for May 4 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

The 2020 class of restaurant and chef awards semifinalists is scheduled to be announced Feb. 26.

Take a look at six America’s Classics award winners.

Contact Lisa Jennings at [email protected]

Follow her on Twitter: @livetodineout

About the Author

Lisa Jennings

Executive Editor, Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality

Lisa Jennings is executive editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality. She joined the NRN staff as West Coast editor in 2004 as a veteran journalist. Before joining NRN, she spent 11 years at The Commercial Appeal, the daily newspaper in Memphis, Tenn., most recently as editor of the Food and Health & Wellness sections. Prior experience includes staff reporting for the Washington Business Journal and United Press International.

Lisa’s areas of expertise include coverage of both large public restaurant chains and small independents, the regulatory and legal landscapes impacting the industry overall, as well as helping operators find solutions to run their business better.

Lisa Jennings’ experience:

Executive editor, NRN (March 2020 to present)

Executive editor, Restaurant Hospitality (January 2018 to present)

Senior editor, NRN (September 2004 to March 2020)

Reporter/editor, The Commercial Appeal (1990-2001)

Reporter, Washington Business Journal (1985-1987)

Contact Lisa Jennings at:

[email protected]

@livetodineout

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-jennings-83202510/

 

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