The CHOW 13
Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers
By Lessley Anderson
For our first annual awards, CHOW.com salutes 13 people who made us what we are today.
- Christina Tosi
- Bryant Terry
- Sam Calagione
- Roy Choi
- Deborah Madison
- Ryan Farr
- Richard Blakeley
and Jessica Amason - Josh Viertel
- Sandor Katz
- Duane Sorenson
- Novella Carpenter
- Matt Timms
And by “we,” we mean everybody in our contemporary culinary world. And by “today,” we mean right now, 2009. The world is a different place than it was last year, and these people made it that way. Why are we actually considering a chicken in our tiny backyard? Why are we following lunch carts on Twitter? Why is the beer aisle stocked with names that sound like insults?
Because a few people decided to do things differently. And their new ideas were so good that we followed. Together, their work is a snapshot of the culinary zeitgeist of 2009.
CHOW.com gives credit where credit is due: to 13 people who have changed the way we eat and drink, and talk and think about food.
