Awards & Honors

Fannie and John Hertz Foundaton Hertz Fellow, 1984
Upside’s All Star Team, 1994
Vanity Fair’s Fifty Leaders of the Information Age, “The New Establishment,” 1995 - 1998
Network Technology Driver, Network Computing, 1995 - 1996
Golden Plate Award, Salute to Excellence, American Academy of Achievement, 1996
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow, 1996
Cover of Fortune, “Inside Microsoft’s Brain,” December 8, 1997
Upside Magazine’s “Elite 100” (Executives Leading the Digital Revolution), 1997
Santa Monica High School Hall of Fame, Awarded 1997
Time Digital Cyber Elite, 1997 and 1998
Finalist, Computerworld Smithsonian Award, Science Category, 1998
Software Forum Visionary Award, 1998
Sheffield Fellow, Yale University, Awarded 1998
Cover of Forbes, December 25, 2000
James Madison Medal, Princeton University, 2005
Honorary Degree, Culinary Institute of America, 2011
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Inductee, World Cookbook Hall of Fame, 2011
International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards, "Professional Kitchens," "Design," and "Visionary Achievement", 2012
James Beard Book Award for two categories: “Cookbook of the Year,” and  “Cooking from a Professional Point of View,” 2012
James Beard Book Award: Restaurant and professional category, 2018
IACP Cookbook Awards: Jane Grigson Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Depth of Research in Cookbooks, 2018
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best Food Book of the Year and Best Cookbook Publisher, 2018

Miscellaneous Awards and Certificates

World Championship of Barbecue, Memphis, Tennessee, Team Member on Team that Won First and Second Place Titles, 1991
Grand Prix Racing School, Bertil Roos Indy Style Racing School, 1994
Gas Dragster Class, Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, Gainesville, FL, 1994
Grande Diplome, Ecole De La Varenne in Burgundy, Chateau du Fey, France, 1995
Cover of Business Week, July 1, 2006, “The Godfather of Invention”