James Beard Award Nominees and Winners 2025

US Foodways

Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a Cajun Life by Melissa M. Martin

US Foodways

Chinese Enough: Homestyle Recipes for Noodles, Dumplings, Stir-Fries, and More

US Foodways

Our South: Black Food Through My Lens by Ashleigh Shanti

WINNER

Baking and Desserts

Breaking Bao: 88 Bakes and Snacks from Asia and Beyond by Clarice Lam

Baking and Dessert

The Elements of Baking: Making any Recipe Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free or Vegan by Katarina Cermelj

Baking and Dessert

Sift: The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb

WINNER

Bread

Modernist Bread at Home by Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya

Bread

Richard Hart Bread: Intuitive Sourdough Baking by Richard Hart

WINNER

Bread

Big Book of Bread: 125 Recipes for Every Baker by King Arthur Baking Company

Beverage without Recipes

Rebel School Of Wine: A Visual Guide to Drinking with Confidence by Tyler Balliet

Beverage without Recipes

The World Atlas of Whisky 3rd Edition: More than 500 Ddistilleries Profiled and 480 Expressions Tasted by Dave Broom

Beverage without Recipes

Sake: The Art and Craft of Japan's National Drink by Yoshiko Ueno-Müller

WINNER

Beverage with Recipes

A Quick Drink: The Speed Rack Guide to Winning Cocktails for Any Mood by Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero with Megan Krigbaum

Beverage with Recipes

The Bartender's Pantry: A Beverage Handbook for the Universal Bar by Jim Meehan and Bart Sasso with Emma Janzen

WINNER

Beverage with Recipes

The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home by Nicola Nice

Reference, History and Scholarship

Flavorama: The Unbridled Science of Flavor and How to Get It to Work for You by Arielle Johnson

Reference, History and Scholarship

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by Theresa McCulla

Reference, History and Scholarship

McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches by Gary He

WINNER

Food Issues and Advocacy

The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos by Mark Easter

Food Issues and Advocacy

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again by Mariana Chilton

Food Issues and Advocacy

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman

WINNER

General

Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi, Tara Wigley. Helen Goh and Verena Lochmuller

General

Pass the Plate: 100 Delicious, Highly Shareable, Everyday Recipes by Carolina Gelen

WINNER

General

Matty Matheson - Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson

International

The Balkan Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Balkans by Irina Janakievska

WINNER

International

The Chinese Way: Classic Techniques, Fresh Flavors by Betty Liu

International

The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them by Karla T. Vasquez

Writing

The Editor: How Judith Jones Shaped Food and Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin

Writing

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

WINNER

Writing

Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul by Rowan Jacobsen

Visuals

I Love You - Recipes From the Heart by Pamela Anderson

Visuals

Koreaworld: A Cookbook by Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard

Visuals

McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches by Gary He

WINNER

Restaurant and Professional

Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California's Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia and Andrea Lawson Gray

WINNER

Restaurant and Professional

Eleven Madison Park - The Plant-Based Chapter by Daniel Humm

Restaurant and Professional

Tipo 00 The Pasta Cookbook: For People Who Love Pasta by Andreas Papadakis

Single Subject

The Bean Book: 100 Recipes for Cooking with All Kinds of Beans, from the Rancho Gordo Kitchen by Steve Sando

Single Subject

Jang The Soul of Korean Cooking: More than 60 Recipes Featuring Gochujang, Doenjang, and Ganjang by Mingoo Kang

WINNER

Single Subject

The Turkey Book: A Chef's Journal of Hunting and Cooking America's Bird by Jesse Griffiths

Vegetable-Focused Cooking

Big Vegan Flavor: Techniques and 150 Recipes to Master Vegan Cooking by Nisha Vora

Vegetable-Focused Cooking

Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking: Vegan Recipes, Tips, and Techniques by Joe Yonan

WINNER

Vegetable-Focused Cooking

The Vibrant Hong Kong Table: 88 Iconic Vegan Recipes from Dim Sum to Sweet Buns by Christine Wong

Emerging Voice

Paola Velez author of Bodega Bakes

Cookbook Hall of Fame

Rose Levy Beranbaum author of numerous books including The Cake Bible, 35th Anniversary Edition by Rose Levy Beranbaum