 Ruhlman is the winner of two James Beard Awards, the 1999 award for magazine feature writing and the 2012 general cooking award for his book "Ruhlman's Twenty", and has been nominated seven other times by the foundation.2007, he produced "The Elements of Cooking" based on the structure of the classic grammar book "The Elements of Style".The book includes essays about the importance of fundamentals in cooking such as heat, salt and stock, along with a reference guide to cooking terms.