THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, May 18, 1995 TAG: 9505180082
SECTION: FLAVOR PAGE: F1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY FLORENCE FABRICANT, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
LENGTH: Medium: 57 lines
MARCEL DESAULNIERS, a co-owner of the Trellis restaurant in Williamsburg, has won a second James Beard cookbook award, this one for ``The Burger Meisters'' (Simon & Schuster, 1994).
Desaulniers' ``Death by Chocolate: the Art of a Consuming Passion'' was named best dessert book in 1993.
Named cookbook of the year was ``Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts'' by Alice Medrich (Warner Books, $35). Her book ``Cocolat,'' was book of the year in 1991.
Also among this year's winners, announced last week at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan, was Rick Bayless, co-owner of Frontera Grill, Topolobampo and Zinfandel in Chicago. He was named chef of the year.
New York did well, in fact: its Le Cirque was named best restaurant and Francois Payard of Daniel was named pastry chef of the year.
Drew Nieporent won the award for best service professional, while his restaurants, Montrachet and Nobu in New York and Rubicon in San Francisco, also were honored. Montrachet was cited for best wine service, Nobu for best new restaurant and Rubicon's chef, Traci Des Jardins, was named the rising star of the year.
Winners in other categories were ``Smoke and Spice'' by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (Harvard Common Press, $29.95); ``Classic Home Desserts'' by Richard Sax (Chapters, $29.95); ``Entertaining on the Run'' by Marlene Sorosky (William Morrow, $25); ``Jewish Cooking in America'' by Joan Nathan (Alfred A. Knopf, $30); ``Onions, Onions, Onions'' by Linda and Fred Griffith (Chapters, $14.95); and ``Now You're Cooking'' by Elaine Corn (Harlow & Ratner, $24.95).
Also, ``The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean'' by Paula Wolfert (Harper Collins, $30); ``The Book of Food'' by Frances Bissell (Henry Holt, $40); ``Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home'' by the Moosewood Collective (Simon & Schuster/Fireside, $15); ``The Oxford Companion to Wine'' by Jancis Robinson (Oxford University Press, $49.95); ``Treasures of the Italian Table'' by Burton Anderson (William Morrow, $20); and ``Roger Verge's Vegetables in the French Style'' by Roger Verge (Artisan, $35).
``Greene on Greens'' by Bert Greene (Workman, 1984, $19.95) was named to the cookbook hall of fame. ILLUSTRATION: [Book Jacket]
Alice Medrich's low-fat treats won her a second cookbook-of-the-year
award.
JAMES BEARD AWARDS
[For a copy of the winners of the James Beard Awards for cookbooks,
see microfilm on page F7 for this date.]
by CNB