Inquirer critic Craig LaBan and photographer Jessica Griffin won a journalism award for a series of stories documenting travels through Mexico with Philly restaurateurs.
Inquirer critic Craig LaBan and photographer Jessica Griffin won a James Beard journalism award, and Philadelphians dominated the categories for books on beverages.
Mescalero Santos Juárez and David Suro examine agave in Toliman, in Southern Jalisco, in Mexico, in February 2023.Inquirer critic Craig LaBan and photographer Jessica Griffin won a James Beard Media Award on Saturday for travel writing. LaBan and Griffin journeyed to Mexico last year to report a series of articles, including about Cantina La Martina chef
Two other Philadelphia-based authors picked up James Beard book awards Saturday, with Suro himself and coauthor Gary Paul Nabhan winning forThis is LaBan’s second James Beard Award and his sixth time nominated. He won his first award in 2000 for Best Newspaper Review or Critique. This year he was also nominated for the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award, which went toEver camera-shy, LaBan was not present to accept the award Saturday night.
Reached Sunday morning as he was readying to depart for Monday’s award ceremony in Chicago, LaBan said he was grateful for The Inquirer’s investment in an ambitious reporting project as well as his coauthor and award recipient. “Jessica was an amazing travel and reporting partner, always up for whatever crazy ride into the mountains of Michoacan the story demanded. WithHe also thanked Jiménez and Suro for showing The Inquirer “their Mexico,” he said.
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