If Michael Symon was crying in his beer last night, after the second year of watching a James Beard Foundation Award slip out of his grasp, you’d never know it from this photo of him, posted on the Beard website, laughing it up with his wife-and-partner Liz Symon and chef-pal Aaron Sanchez at the Big Apple gala in Avery Fisher Hall.
Hosted by chef Bobby Flay and actress Kim Cattrall, the annual blowout – a black-tie event, complete with red carpet and wall-to-wall celebrities — has been likened to the Academy Awards of the culinary world, with way better food. …
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2008.