Nach Waxman Prize Shortlist for Books Published in 2024
Kitchen Arts & Letters and the Waxman family are delighted to announce a shortlist of nominations for the second annual Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship.
The prize includes an award of $5,500 and highlights a US-published book which invites the general public to seriously consider issues in culinary and beverage history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, geography, and other fields of study.
For books published in 2024, the nominees listed alphabetically by author are:
Christopher Beckman
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine
Hurst & Co
Lisa Jacobson
Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition
University of California Press
Pascaline Lepeltier
One Thousand Vines: A New Way to Understand Wine
Mitchell Beazley
Melani Martinez
University of Arizona Press
Nicola Twilley
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Penguin Press
The winner of the prize will be announced May 6. At that time we will also announce an online discussion between the prize winner and the judges who selected the book.
The prize is named for Nach Waxman (1936–2021), the founder of Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore, where he ardently championed the work of food and beverage scholars, as well as authors who illuminated the culture behind cooking, eating, drinking, and culinary history.
A panel of three judges made the selections from a group of nearly fifty entries. The judges were:
Darra Goldstein, the founding editor of Gastronomica and editor in chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies and winner of numerous prizes for her work in food, including James Beard and IACP awards.
Morna Livingston, Professor Emerita of the College of Architecture & the Built Environment at Jefferson University, who specializes in the study of gravity water systems and cultural landscapes.
Mayukh Sen is a James Beard and IACP Award-winning author and journalist whose book Taste Makers (2021) chronicled the lives of seven immigrant women who changed American cooking. He is also the author of the recently published Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star.
