8 Award-Winning Food & Wine Stories and Photos

These are Food & Wine's latest award-winning stories and photos, including finalists for the 2024 International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards.

Photo by Greg DuPree / Food Styling by Melissa Gray / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell
Photo by Greg DuPree / Food Styling by Melissa Gray / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell

As the 2024 International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards ceremony approaches, we're celebrating Food & Wine's latest accolade nods, from a James Beard Award-winning stories to IACP award finalist photography. This year Food & Wine swept the IACP Narrative Food Writing With Recipes category with all three finalists, and two photographs are finalists for editorial food photography. In 2023, Food & Wine earned eight awards and prizes for profiles, essays, and features spanning Hawaiian food culture, MSG, an activist family, and more stunning photography. Here we honor our talented experts and contributors.

Okura No Nibitashi (Marinated Okra in Flavored Dashi Sauce)

<p>Antonis Achilleos / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell</p>

Antonis Achilleos / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell

Antonis Achilleos photographed Hiroko Shimbo's okra pods marinated in a dashi sauce with food styling by Emily Nabors Hall and prop styling by Lydia Pursell. The image is a 2024 IACP finalist in the Food Photography - Editorial category.

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Oh, Sing to Me of Okra

<p>Antonis Achilleos / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by  Lydia Purcell</p>

Antonis Achilleos / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Lydia Purcell

Kat Kinsman traces the genetic and geographic trail of okra through editorial documentation, including poetry, essays, and cookbooks, curating the stories of people around the world who cannot be their full selves without the singular and perfect plant. The story from the August 2023 issue of Food & Wine is a finalist in the Narrative Food Writing With Recipes category.

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The Essential Magic of Jacques Pépin

<p>Cedric Angeles</p>

Cedric Angeles

Kat Kinsman celebrates one of the food world’s living legends with storytelling that came to life from Food & Wine's 40th anniversary issue to photography, video, and an event at the 2023 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. The story from the July 2023 issue of Food & Wine is a finalist for Narrative Food Writing With Recipes.

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Apples to Apples

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Frans Rombout / PicturePartners / Getty Images

Betsy Andrews explores the evolution of apples in the United States, from colonial America to today. The feature on "the magic of apples and the unique intimacy between humans and this fruit," from the November 2023 issue of Food & Wine, is a finalist for Narrative Food Writing With Recipes.

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Herbal Chicken Bone Broth with Soba Noodles

<p>Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Christine Keely</p>

Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Christine Keely

Victor Protasio's cover image of Zoey Xinyi Gong's nourishing soba and broth recipe is a finalist for the 2024 IACP Award for Food Photography - Editorial. Chelsea Zimmer contributed food styling and Christine Keely prop styled for the February 2023 issue of Food & Wine.

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Cook With MSG

<p>Egasit Mullakhut / Shutterstock</p>

Egasit Mullakhut / Shutterstock

Mari Uyehara's insights into "the arc of MSG’s rise and fall" earned this December 2023/January 2024 feature a 2024 James Beard Journalism Award in the category of Home Cooking.

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Hawai’i Has a Complicated Relationship With Canned Food

Sarah Maiden
Sarah Maiden

Kiki Aranita's November 2022 feature, Here’s The Difference Between Hawai’i’s Local Food and Hawaiian Food, Plus How Spam Fits Into All of It, won the 2023 Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher First Prize. LDEI said "Aranita's composition on the history of Hawaii’s local food includes an important look at Hawaii’s sometimes difficult history."

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Level Up, Seafood Tower

<p>Eva Kolenko / Food Styling by Erin Quon / Prop Styling by Audrey Taylor</p>

Eva Kolenko / Food Styling by Erin Quon / Prop Styling by Audrey Taylor

The cover photo from the December 2022/January 2023 issue of Food & Wine earned Erin Quon the 2023 IACP Award for Food Styling in an Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph and Audrey Taylor the 2023 IACP Award for Prop Styling in an Editorial Food or Beverage Photograph.

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Unlocking the Mysteries of Piedmont

Finn Beales
Finn Beales

Ray Isle's travel feature on Italy's Barolo wine and white truffle region, from the September 2022 issue of Food & Wine, won the 2023 IACP Award for Culinary Travel Writing With Recipes.

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The Food & Wine Guide to Making Pizza at Home

Photo by Christopher Testani / Food Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Audrey Davis
Photo by Christopher Testani / Food Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Audrey Davis

Mary-Frances Heck, Hunter Lewis, and Paige Grandjean collaborated on this comprehensive guide to pizza-making tools, essential steps and ingredients for making dough, sauces, toppings, baking in particular ovens, and more, winning the 2023 IACP Award for Narrative Food Writing With Recipes.

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Sour Power

Photo by Greg DuPree / Food Styling by Melissa Gray / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell
Photo by Greg DuPree / Food Styling by Melissa Gray / Prop Styling by Lydia Pursell

Lara Lee's guide to cooking with tamarind, one of the world’s most beloved and versatile ingredients, won a 2023 James Beard Journalism Award for Home Cooking.

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Dog S#!t Dacquoise

<p>Simone Massoni</p>

Simone Massoni

Diep Tran's piece on a disastrous attempt to prepare an ambitious meal won a 2023 James Beard Journalism Award for Personal Essay with Recipes.

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The Sweetest Harvest

<p>Clay Williams</p> Angie and June Provost at their sugarcane farm in New Iberia, Louisiana.

Clay Williams

Angie and June Provost at their sugarcane farm in New Iberia, Louisiana.

Kayla Stewart and Clay Williams won the 2023 James Beard Journalism Award for a Profile with this piece about the Provost family's Louisiana farm, sugarcane, and activism.

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