Robb Walsh, food writer for the Houston Press, is a finalist in two categories of this year’s James Beard Foundation Awards for food writing.
Walsh is a finalist in the category of Newspaper Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs With or Without Recipes for his feature “Grande Plans,” a profile of chef Robert Del Grande.
He is also a finalist in Newspaper Feature Writing With Recipes for “Sex, Death and Oysters,” which reported on the status of the Gulf Coast oyster industry.
Winners will be announced May 2.
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2005.