Awards

Good Eats Series Wins First Peabody Award for Food Network

Food Network's "Good Eats," hosted by Alton Brown, will be honored as one of the recipients of the 66th Annual Peabody Awards, it was announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The oldest honor in electronic media, the award recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. This is the first win for Food Network and Brown.

The winners, chosen by the Peabody Board as the best in electronic media for 2006, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus. The awards will be presented June 4 at a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The celebrated sportscaster Bob Costas, host of HBO's "Costas Now," will be the master of ceremonies.

Alton Brown was named the 2004 Cooking Teacher of the Year at the 7th Annual Bon Appetit American Food & Entertaining Awards.

I’m Just Here for the Food won the 2003 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Cookbook in the Reference category.

Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen was nominated for the 2004 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Cookbook in the Reference category and the 2004 IACP Cookbook Award for Best Food Reference/Technical.

Thanksgiving Starts Here, an article that appeared in the November 2003 issue of Bon Appetit Magazine, was nominated for a 2004 National Magazine Award in the Leisure Interests category. This category recognizes excellent service journalism about leisure-time pursuits. The practical advice or instruction presented should help readers enjoy hobbies or other recreational interests.

Good Eats was nominated for the 2000 James Beard Foundation Award in the Food Journalism category for the episode, Bird In Hand.