Last night was a special one for me. American Wasteland, my second child, won an IACP award in the first ever Food Matters category. As a result, the certificate pictured below now has pride of place in my Austin Motel room.
I also get to insert that neat winner’s badge in the sidebar. And call me crazy, but I’m putting it in this post, too, just for the heck of it!
My book was the joint winner with Deborah Krasner’s Good Meat. But since Krasner wasn’t there, I had the stage to myself at the awards ceremony.  The moment was thrilling and an honor and humbling and a blur. I can’t remember exactly what I said, but they didn’t have to usher me off with the ‘hint, hint’ music.
Anyway, a sincere thanks to all the readers of this blog, for contributing in small and large ways to last night’s moment.
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In the last few days I’ve learned about a bunch of exciting new ideas and ventures. I’ll have more on those in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, have an unwasteful weekend!
Comments
9 responses to “Austin Report: Jackpot!”
Kudos, Jonathan! It’s a well-deserved honor. I look forward to buying you a drink the next time you swing through DC.
Peace,
Jeremy
Congratulations. You’ve done such a good job in bringing food waste to the forefront of people’s attention. I’ve had the paperback ordered from Amazon forever – any idea when it’s coming out?
Congratulations, Jonathan!
Just an amazing accomplishment. Cool to be related to an *Award-Winning* author…
Thanks, guys!
Paperback should be out in early September…probably with a little badge on the cover!
Add one more congratulations to the list!
Bloooooooom! Congrats! That is so incredible. Q-Crew is proud of you!
Thought of you tonight when I served Hamburgers, (Found two frozen bags, which added up to the three that I needed) ice cream cones, (the cones were left by a tenant in one of my mother’s guest cottages) and relish, (which was leftover from a soccer event last year, and we brought home.)
I also noticed that a bottle of white wine was close to empty in the fridge, so I made sure to not let that go to waste.
Katy
Wasting no food since 1968
Congratulations on your book award, Jonathan! I am enjoying reading your book. I am hoping to figure out a way to convince some of the 400 grocery stores in Phoenix to donate instead of dump the current $500/day worth of food they throw away. Your book is giving me more ideas.