These Are the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Award Winners, 2024

A DC chef who revitalized a 40-year-old haunt by reimagining the Japanese comfort food that she grew up on.A Senegal-born chef highlighting the culinary traditions of West Africa through fine dining in New Orleans.A city with a population just barely exceeding 68,000 welcoming a newfound national spotlight for its baking prowess.First-generation chefs, small towns often overlooked by mainstream awards, and foodways long underrepresented in America headlined this year’s James Beard Awards, which took place at Chicago’s Lyric Opera.”My only hope as I stand here today is that we can…