The James Beard Basis introduced the nominees for the 2022 Media Awards nowadays, and Eater is nominated throughout more than one classes, from video to characteristic writing to audio.
Eater’s award-winning video staff won a nod within the class of Visible Media — Brief Shape for an in-depth take a look at salt harvesting in Senegal’s Lake Retba. Staff buckle down and do one of the most saltiest our bodies of water on the planet to assemble 60,000 metric heaps of salt consistent with yr, a strenuous procedure that Eater captured on digicam for over 11 million audience (and counting).
For writing, contributor Ahmed Ali Akbar’s document on “the sector’s biggest mangoes” (and the bootleg WhatsApp operation to convey them to the U.S.) used to be nominated within the Characteristic Writing class. Within the Foodways class, two Eater items were given nods: contributor James Bennett II’s historic take a look at beer in Black tradition and historical past, from the importance of beer in pre-colonial West African social existence to the craft brew trade’s overlook of the Black The us in advertising and marketing; and Trisha Gopal’s birthday celebration of the various immigrant-owned eating places and boulevard distributors tucked away in the back of fuel stations around the U.S.
Within the MFK Fisher Outstanding Writing Award class, contributor Hannah Selinger’s intimate account of studying David Chang’s memoir Devour a Peach used to be nominated. And Eater LA’s very personal Mona Holmes used to be identified within the Jonathan Gold Native Voice Award class for her reporting around the numerous, standard Los Angeles meals scene, together with items on the unsure long term of downtown LA’s meals scene; the most productive grocery retailer fried hen within the town; and a deeply private viewpoint on Los Angeles’s Black fish fry.
Along with the six editorial nominations, Gastropod, the award-winning meals podcast that joined Eater in 2021, used to be identified with a nomination for Audio Programming.
Punch, Eater’s “sister e-newsletter” protecting the sector of bars, spirits, and consuming tradition, used to be nominated within the Private Essay, Lengthy Shape class, for contributor Miguel De Leon’s take a look at the colonial practices of winemaking and the spirit of imperialism that continues to difficult to understand the enjoy of wine nowadays.
Vox Media used to be additionally identified for branded content material within the Business/Subsidized Visible Media class, for a video sequence At the Upward push with Marcus Samuelsson, created with Uber Eats and airing on Eater. And within the ebook segment of the awards, Punch founder and editor-in-chief Talia Baiocchi won a Eating place and Execs nomination for her ebook with Missy Robbins, Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy’s Biggest Meals.
