It was the fifth year in a row that the awards ceremony took place at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The event was hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the five-time Emmy nominee of the ABC show “Modern Family.” He wasted no time taking shots at some of the food world’s biggest personalities. While making a Marie Kondo joke about getting rid of things that failed to spark joy, he mentioned discarding old Mario Batali cookbooks. (Batali was accused of sexually harassment by a number of women in 2017.) Later in the evening, he claimed to have gotten a message from Cat Cora asking to get in. (Nick Kokonas of Alinea should find that one particularly funny.)