My Family Skipped My “Pointless” Award—Then Watched It Live From a Restaurant TV

– James Beard Rising Star Award. My first instinct was that it was spam—one of those automated mailing list things that slips through the filter wearing the clothes of something important. My brain flagged it as junk before my heart had a chance to intervene.

Then I clicked it.

The words swam slightly in front of my eyes, rearranging themselves into continue reading …