Since 1990, the James Beard Foundation has been handing out awards to books on culinary topics on an annual basis. Some of the best-known cookbooks and food books of the decade—The Silver Palate Cookbook, Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home—have been recognized by a James Beard Book Award. What better way, we thought, to sift through the chaff of the hundreds of cookbooks published each year? We guarantee that any one of these award-winning books will be a much-appreciated addition to a foodie’s ...more