Literary and Culinary Achievement “Literary Lion” Award Honoring a New England author, food writer, editor, or literary agent for their achievements as a positive role model, mentor, and numerous contributions to food Featured 2025 Christopher Kimball 2025 Read more → 2025 2024 Lisa Ekus 2024 Read more → 2024 2023 Don Lindgren 2023 Read more → 2023 2022 Chris Schlesinger 2022 Read more → 2022 2022 John “Doc” Willoughby 2022 Read more → 2022 2021 Bruce Weinstein / Mark Scarbrough 2021 Read more → 2021 2020 Rux Martin 2020 Read more → 2020 2019 Sally Sampson 2019 Read more → 2019 2018, Inaugural Nancy Harmon Jenkins 2018, Inaugural Read more → 2018, Inaugural