Schwa's Michael Carlson, Others Up for Beard Awards

312DD and NBCChicago.com scored the first-ever television interview with Schwa's Michael Carlson in 2009.


GrubStreet lists all the Chicago-area finalists for the annual James Beard Foundation Awards, including Schwa's Michael Carlson, avec's Koren Grieveson and Hot Chocolate's Mindy Segal.

Also, as we speculated last week, Rick Bayless is up for the TV Food Personality category.

The awards will be announced during a ceremony in New York on May 3. Good luck to all!