Matt Dillon at the Corson, ready for bees.
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  • Matt Dillon at the Corson, ready for bees.

And the 2012 James Beard Award winners are (among lots of others)...

· Matt Dillon of Sitka & Spruce (and also, um, a little place called the Corson Building) for Best Chef: Northwest

· Tom Douglas, a.k.a. T-Doug, of Tom Douglas World Domination Inc. Restaurants Seattle for (at last!) Outstanding Restaurateur

· and Modernist Cuisine, the best-thing-since-laser-cut-bread six-volume (2,438-page!) scientific cookbook opus, for both Cookbook of the Year AND Cooking from a Professional Point of View* (brought to you by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold and his Cooking Lab, a 20,000-square-foot Bellevue space that used to be a Harley-Davidson service center, which also houses his Intellectual Ventures, which you may put your feelings about in comments)

· also! Maureen O'Hagan of the Seattle Times won in the Journalism/Health and Well-Being category for her series on childhood obesity.

Congratulations to all—the marvelous fat man would be proud.

*There is no Cooking from an Unprofessional Point of View award.