2024 James Beard Award Winners Tell Us What They’ve Learned from Their Failures

Senior Editor Caroline Hatchett and I are still coming down from a whirlwind James Beard Award weekend in Chicago, where we were stationed in the press room of the Lyric Opera Monday night. We interviewed winners, and this year, just as they were basking in their glory, we asked them to tell us the best lessons they learned from failure. Many reflected that it was their mistakes that actually led them to the...