The Association of Food Journalists (AFJ) will formally name the winners of its 2013 awards later today, but the results of the prestigious annual food writing and editing competition have already been released. A first place victory goes to Sauce contributor Kellie Hynes in the category of Best Food Column. Hynes writes Vegetize It, a vegetarian home-cooking column that appears each month in the print issue.
Sauce contributor Stacy Schultz also was among this year’s finalists. Schultz was nominated in the category of Best Newspaper Food Feature (circulation below 125,000) for “A Second Shot,” a profile story of Scott Carey, owner of Sump Coffee.
Two other St. Louis-based food journalists were among 2013 AFJ award finalists. Feast’s Hannah Radcliff took second place in the category of Best Food Multimedia Presentation. Ian Froeb, nominated in the category of Best Restaurant Criticism for his restaurant reviews published in The Riverfront Times, tied for third place. Froeb is currently restaurant critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The winners will be recognized tonight at an awards banquet held in conjunction with the AFJ annual conference in Park City, Utah. The organization recognized excellence in 16 categories of food writing and editing. A complete list of the results is posted here.
This article appears in September 2013.