Karyn Tomlinson of Myriel in St. Paul won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest, making her the first St. Paul chef to ever win that prestigious culinary prize. French-influenced Bûcheron ...

For the first time ever, a Wichita restaurant has been included on the list of semifinalists for the James Beard Awards ... so that he could produce French bread and pastries for the restaurant.