CNN:Eatocracy - 5@5 —

With the NFL season officially kicking off tonight as the Saints defend their Super Bowl title against the Minnesota Vikings, it only seemed fitting that Chef Besh offer up his pre-game eating route to the Superdome.

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GAYOT.com: Sophie Gayot My Lunch with John Besh
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Accolades and Honors

Food Arts — January 2009 —

Silver Spoon Award

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New Orleans City Business — January 2009 —

Best Owner – 2008 – Best Fine Dining Establishment; Best Casual Upscale Dining Establishment; Best New Restaurant; Best Owner; Best Executive Chef
Louisiana Restaurant Association — December 2008 —

Restaurateur of the Year
Gayot Top 40 Restaurants — December 2008
Bon Appétit — February 2008 —

“The Hot 10/The Best Eco-Friendly Restaurants” list.
New Orleans Magazine — December 2007 —

“Best Chef of the Year.”
The Times-Picayune — October 2007 —

“Top 10 Best Restaurants in New Orleans.”
National Restaurant Association — June 2007 —

Restaurant Neighbor Award
Nation’s Restaurant News Hall of Fame Awards — May 2007
Gourmet Magazine — October 2006 —

“Top 50 Restaurants”
The James Beard Foundation Awards — July 2006 —

Best Chef, Southeast
Santé Restaurant Culinary Hospitality Award — December 2005
Great American Seafood Cook-off — July 2004 —

Winner
Food & Wine Magazine — July 1999 —

Best New Chef

In the News

Edible Radio: Growing Home with John Besh — October 2011 —

Growing Home host Marla Camp, publisher of Edible Austin, talks to James Beard Award-winning Chef John Besh. John Besh is a chef, author, television personality and restaurateur as well as a passionate home cook and family man. He’s also a passionate public ambassador for local food and sustainable agriculture. On this episode of Growing Home, Besh talks about the resilience of his native Louisiana’s food communities in the aftermath of recent ecological and economic disasters along the Gulf coast and about how his new cookbook, My Family Table, brings it all home.

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New Orleans Oyster Festival celebrates the Louisiana bivalve — June 2011
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Cochon 555 recap and pictures — June 2011
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San Antonio dish steals the show in Austin — April 2011
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NewOrleansPodcasting.com interview — April 2011
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Pasta Porn: 101 of America’s Most Delicious Noodle Dishes — April 2011
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Southern Chef John Besh Picks New York’s Best Newfangled Fried Chicken — April 2011
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Chef John Besh on empire-building and cutting in line for BBQ at the Hill Country Wine and Food Fest — March 2011
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Chef John Besh's new WYES cooking show goes to 75 stations | — March 2011
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The 2011 Beaver Creek Master Chef Classic Begins With A Besh — February 2011
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Making Gumbo with John Besh and James Carville — February 2011
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New Orleans Magazine Readers Favorites Names John Besh Favorite Chef — January 2011
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Esquire: Eat Like a Man — January 2011
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GAYOT.com- Top Restaurants - 40 of the Best Restaurants in the U.S. — January 2011
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New Orleans City Business- August stays on its game with interesting, local ingredients — January 2011
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GAYOT.com Reviews My New Orleans — December 2010
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GAYOT.com: Sophie Gayot My Lunch with John Besh — December 2010
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The Huffington Post: Wild Abundance -- A Beautiful Cookbook for Carnivores and Hunters — December 2010
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The Huffington Post: Wild Abundance -- A Beautiful Cookbook for Carnivores and Hunters — December 2010
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Fox 8 Morning News: Luke Restaurant shares Christmas recipes — December 2010
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ABC 26: Good Morning New Orleans: La Provence Making a Holiday Dinner to Help Out the Community — December 2010
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The Times Picayune - Mandeville's Christmas on the Lake feeds a need — December 2010
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Dallas Morning News: John Besh opens Luke on the San Antonio Riverwalk — November 2010
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Savor SA: Lüke Opens This Evening — November 2010
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Times-Picayune: Beyond Deutsches Haus, you can celebrate Oktoberfest at several local restaurants — October 2010 —

Lüke, one of the few local restaurants that regularly features German dishes, is running an Oktoberfest menu all month. It includes German lentil soup with Allen Benton's bacon and housemade boar sausage with roasted potatoes.

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'Sustainable Food': Catchphrase or Lifestyle? — October 2010
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Epicurious: Luke featured in the Dining Report from New Orleans — September 2010
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MSNBC: The Today Show - Tailgating with Chef John Besh — September 2010
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The Times-Picayune — September 2010 —

Lakeshore High School culinary students get lesson from Chef John Besh

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John Besh to Open Luke in San Antonio — September 2010
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Savor San Antonio: Lüke Brings New/Old-World Style to River Walk in October — September 2010 —

Chef and television personality John Besh will open Lüke San Antonio, the sister restaurant to his Lüke New Orleans, in mid-October. Chef Steven McHugh will head up the culinary team at River Walk restaurant at 125 E. Houston St.

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CBS: The Early Show - John Besh cooking at Jackson Square — August 2010
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CNN: In the kitchen with Chef John Besh — August 2010 —

New Orleans chef John Besh takes us inside his kitchen and tells us how the restaurant industry has recovered since Katrina.

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CNN: Anderson Cooper - New Orleans restaurants on the rise — August 2010 —

Chef John Besh talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper on the revival of the New Orleans food business after Katrina.

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Go NOLA - American Sector: A Delicious Step Back in Time — August 2010
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Today Show: Chef Besh cooks summer salmon salad — July 2010 —

Watch as Chef John Besh whips up a tasty summer recipe on the Today Show AND shows his support for the Troops as part of Bacardi's 60 Second Cocktails!

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The Atlantic: The Gulf Oil Spill: Destroying a Food Tradition — June 2010
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Sneak Peek at Chef John Besh new show on TLC — June 2010
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On new TLC series, John Besh takes inept home chefs' dishes from 'Inedible to Incredible' — June 2010
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Aspen Daily News: Chef discusses uncertain future of Gulf seafood — June 2010
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The Huffington Post: Reporting Back From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen — June 2010
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The Advocate: Besh helps bad cooks on new show — June 2010
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TV Squad: Chef John Besh Takes America's Home-Cooking From 'Inedible to Incredible' — June 2010
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USA Today: Chef John Besh tells you what not to cook on 'Inedible to Incredible' — June 2010
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Austin360: Ahead of ‘Inedible to Incredible’ premiere, John Besh talks seafood, oil and frumpy shoes — June 2010
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CNN: Top Chefs Talk Tainted Seafood - (Video) — June 2010
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Slash Food — May 2010 —

Chefs John Besh and Paula Deen team up to co-host an event called 'Shrimp and Grits.'

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The Show Girl Talks Summer TV with 'Cake Boss,' Chef John Besh & 'One Big Happy Family' (VIDEO) — May 2010
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Examiner: The growing number of New Ortleans area restaurant groups owned by families and chefs — May 2010
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CNN: Chef Besh: Eat U.S. seafood -- save a way of life — May 2010
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'Treme': Cameos by New York chefs, Southern writers and Tennessee bacon — May 2010
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Viking Range Dinner Party with Chef John Besh — May 2010
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Northshore Life: Local restauranteer stars in new cooking series — May 2010
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Travel + Leisure Magazine — March 2009 —

“Essential New Orleans”
Garden & Gun Magazine — December 2008 —

“The Besh Gumbo Ever”
Vogue Magazine — November 2008
Redbook Magazine — November 2008 —

“A Big Easy Thanksgiving” and “The Big Easy Food Tour”
Culture & Leisure Magazine — October 2008 —

Fall 2008 – “European Influences”
Esquire Magazine — October 2008 —

and August 2008
USA Today — October 2008
GQ Magazine — September 2008
Food & Wine — July 2008 —

“New Orleans on Six Meals a Day” and “50 Best Chef Hall of Fame”
The New York Times — June 2008 —

June 25, 2008 and October 31, 2007 –“From Disaster, A Chef Forges an Empire”
Cookie Magazine — May 2008 —

“Gone Fishin' ”
Restaurant Hospitality — February 2008 —

“10 Thoughts from John Besh”
Food & Wine Magazine — December 2007 —

“The Big, Easy Christmas”
Travel + Leisure — November 2007 —

“Soul Survivor”
The Wall Street Journal — November 2007 —

“Chefs at Home”
House & Garden — October 2007 —

“Off Duty”
Cooking Light Magazine — October 2007 —

“Market Basket Challange”
Town & Country — April 2007 —

“Farm to Table”
Town & Country — June 2006 —

“New Orleans Now”
O The Oprah Magazine — March 2006 —

“Delta Force - New Orleans’ mightiest chefs cook again!”
Gourmet Magazine — February 2006 —

“A Letter from New Orleans – Some Heroes and the Food on Their Tables”
The New York Times — September 2005 —

October 2005 and January 2006.
Gambit Weekly — November 2004 —

“Top 40 Under 40”
Travel + Leisure — November 2003 —

“40 Great Places to Spend the Holidays”
Food & Wine Magazine — June 2003 —

“A Chef At Peace”
The New York Times — April 2002 —

“Off Off Bourbon Street, a Jubilant Revival”
WWLTV: Restaurant Guide - Nostalgic Tastes and Inventive Styles at American Sector
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Television and Internet

Paula's Best Dishes — May 2009
The Martha Stewart Show — March 2009
Marines.com — March 2009 —

Quality Citizens
Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels — February 2009 —

and February 2006
Bravo! Top Chef — February 2009
Gourmet.com — February 2009 —

Cookbook Club
Rising From Ruins — January 2009 —

Documentary
Plum TV — October 2008 —

American Express Insider City Guides New Orleans
Bocuse d'Or — September 2008 —

Emcee with Al Roker
Great American Seafood Cook-off — June 2008 —

Master of Ceremonies
After Hours with Daniel — May 2008
Today Show — April 2008 —

7 episodes – April 2008, October 2007, June 2006, November 2005, April 2005, and December 2003
Cox Community Affairs — February 2008
“My Louisiana” — January 2008 —

Ad Campaign
Zatarain's Media Tour — January 2008 —

Spokesperson
Greater New Orleans — January 2008
Sundance Channel, Iconoclasts — November 2007 —

Chef John Besh and Wynton Marsalis
Food Network: The Next Iron Chef Series — July 2007
Chefs A' Field — June 2007 —

Kids on the Farm
Food Network: Challenge Series — July 2006 —

Judge – “The Next Great Chef”, “Mac and Cheese”, “Thanksgiving”, “Super Seafood Grill Off”, “All American Tailgating Cook-off”
Food Network: Iron Chef America — February 2006 —

Victorious against Chef Mario Batali
CNN — November 2005