Award-Winning Detroit Free Press Food Critic Lyndsay Green Earns a James Beard Nomination #DetroitFood
Green previously received an award in the 2023 Emerging Voice category
Food critic Lyndsay Green of the Detroit Free Press is in the running once more for a James Beard Award in 2024. Green earned a media award nomination on Tuesday, April 30, in the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award category. Named after the late LA Times critic, the category recognizes “an individual who engages readers through enterprising food and dining coverage in a specific region.”
Green became the Free Press’s first-ever Black restaurant critic in November 2021, replacing fellow James Beard Award-winner Mark Kurlyandchik. In 2023, she took home a Beard — considered the Oscar of the food world — in the Emerging Voice category. That same year, she was a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism finalist.
Green’s submissions in 2024 included writing on the clubification of restaurants in “Detroit restaurants toy with an old idea: Does sex sell when it comes to dining out?”; her profile of Josmine Evans of Indigo Culinary for the annual Top 10 Best New Restaurants, “Emerging Chef Josmine Evans is a griot, a grower and a damn-good cook”; and a feature on Lent’s influence on Detroit’s culinary scene, titled “From fasting to feasting: How Fridays during the Lenten season became days of indulgence.”
Green is joined by fellow nominees Mike Jordan of Atlanta Magazine and Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine in the category. Last year’s winner in the category was Eater PDX’s own Brooke Jackson-Glidden.
Earlier this month, Mamba Hamissi and Nadia Nijimbere of Baobab Fare in Detroit and Hajime Sato of Sozai in Clawson earned nominations for Outstanding Restaurateur and Best Chef: Great Lakes respectively.
Media award winners will be announced at a banquet on June 8 in Chicago, followed by the Restaurant and Chef Awards Gala on Monday, June 10 at the Lyric Opera House.
Disclosure: Some Vox Media staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Awards. Eater is partnering with the James Beard Foundation to livestream the awards in 2024. All editorial content is produced independently of the James Beard Foundation.
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