Bay Area Garners a Few James Beard Nominations, Gets Shut Out of Several Major Categories, Again

Bay Area Garners a Few James Beard Nominations, Gets Shut Out of Several Major Categories, Again

The finalists for this year's "Oscars of the food world" are now out, and while things are trending upward for Bay Area nominees, many of the "long-listed" semi-finalists from the local region were shut out.It's been a familiar pattern of the last couple of years that the Bay Area can't catch a break at the James Beard Awards, though this year's slate of semi-finalists suggested things might be turning around.Granted, making the cut between the …