Television personality Alton Brown will reprise his role as host of the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards, which will be held at the Lyric Opera in Chicago on May 4, the foundation said Thursday.
Celebrity chef and television personality Carla Hall will host the foundation’s Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards Dinner on April 24, at Pier Sixty in New York City.
“We are thrilled to have two of television’s most influential food personalities host this year’s Awards shows, our 25th awards,” Beard Foundation president Susan Ungaro said in a press release. “Both Carla and Alton have made amazing contributions to the food world through the years, so they seem the perfect fit to play master of ceremonies as we celebrate all of the culinary strides and achievements made not only by our Foundation, but the wonderful community of food and beverage professionals who have made this past quarter century great.”
Brown created the Food Network show Good Eats, which won a Peabody Award in 2007, and has appeared on many other television shows, including Iron Chef America, Feasting on Asphalt, Feasting on Waves, The Next Iron Chef, The Next Food Network Star and Cutthroat Kitchen.
He won the 2011 James Beard Award for Outstanding Television Host.
Hall came to fame as a competitor on the hit Bravo series Top Chef, and is now a Host of The Chew on ABC.
The Beard Foundation’s Restaurant and Chef Awards are widely regarded as among the most prestigious forms of recognition in the restaurant world.
This story has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: March 5, 2015 A quotation in an earlier version of this story misstated the James Beard Awards' anniversary. It is the 25th anniversary of the awards.
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