Toni Tipton-Martin, the longtime food editor and writer whose books “The Jemima Code” and “Jubilee” redefined the story of Black cooks in America, will become the new editor in chief of Cook’s Country....
Celebrating Black Culinary History: Curated by Tastemaker Toni Tipton-Martin
I have dedicated my career to building a healthier community, promoting my vision for equity and representation through public speaking, writing, educational programming, and mentorship. I believe that breaking the illiterate Black cook stereotype will increase race tolerance while empowering the food industry’s next generation, and I was invited twice to the Obama White House for my pursuit of cultural and culinary truth. These media reports reveal my heart for this awareness-raising work.
Meet Toni Tipton-Martin
Toni Tipton-Martin is the first African American Editor-in-Chief of a national magazine with television programming, Cook’s Country by America’s Test Kitchen; the first African American Food Editor of a major daily newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer; author of two James Beard Award-winning books, Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking and The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks; and a co-founder of Southern Foodways Alliance and Foodways Texas.
Telling the Story of African American Cuisine
For generations, countless American cooks of great talent have been denied their proper place at the table. Now Michelle Miller tells us one woman is …
Award-winning culinary journalist Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years compiling one of the largest private collections of cookbooks by …
Through historical recipes and profiles of Black American chefs, home cooks, cooking school teachers, cookbook authors, and more, Jubilee reconstructs the true narrative of African American culinary history....
Toni Tipton-Martin’s new cookbook is a quietly powerful study of 200 years of Black culinary genius. When I first reached for Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee, I’d anticipated a big Black family reunion. expected...
She Rewrote the History of American Cooking Toni Tipton-Martin introduced the forgotten founders of black cooking. Now she’s showing us what they …
With The Jemima Code, the author and scholar gave centuries of African American cooks their due. Now, with her new cookbook, Jubilee, she’s inviting everyone to eat Toni Tipton-Martin used the image of...
We're getting ready for the holidays with Toni Tipton-Martin, author of Jubilee: Recipes from Two Generations of African American Cooking; she talks …
A special edition of The Dish looks back at a culinary event held at New York's Gramercy Tavern -- Chef Toni Tipton offered guests a taste of African …
Award-Winning Cookbooks
Adapted from historical texts and rare African-American cookbooks, the 125 recipes of Jubilee paint a rich, varied picture of the true history of African-American cooking: a cuisine far beyond soul food.
The Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant’s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such...