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Toni Tipton-Martin
Birth Date:6 March 1959
Birth Place:Los Angeles, CA
Education:Bachelors in Journalism, University of Southern California 1981
Awards:Julia Child Award, James Beard Foundation Award
Website:https://tonitiptonmartin.com/

Toni Tipton-Martin is an African-American food and nutrition journalist and author of several cookbooks, including Jubilee. She serves as the editor-in-chief for Cook's Country. She received the Julia Child Award in 2021, and two James Beard awards.[1]

Biography

Tipton-Martin worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s. She moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1991, where she was the first Black person to serve as editor of a food section for a large U.S. newspaper.[2] She was named as the editor in chief for Cook's Country in 2020, replacing former editor Tucker Shaw. Her role as editor-in-chief was noted as one of several Black women who were named to top roles for various magazines at the same time. Tipton-Martin's books focus on the cooking of African Americans, and as part of the work involved in writing them, Tipton-Martin researched various historical cookbooks by Black Americans.[3] [4] She self-published The Jemima Code after presenting it to an agent who then disappeared. In 2005, she published a reprint of an early 20th century cookbook, [5] Tipton-Martin appeared in the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog.She moved to Baltimore in 2018 with her husband. She is the mother of four.[6]

Books

Awards and honors

Tipton-Martin is the winner of two James Beard awards.[8] In 2016, she won the Reference and Scholarship award for The Jemima Code, and Jubilee was awarded Best American Cookbook in 2020.[9] She was the 2021 recipient of the Julia Child Award from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.[10] Tipton-Martin is the recipient of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Trailblazer Award (2020)[11] and its Book of the Year Award (2020, for Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking).[12]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Severson. Kim. 2020-09-15. Cook's Country Gets a New Editor, Toni Tipton-Martin. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-04-21. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: Toni Tipton-Martin To Lead 'Cook's Country' Magazine. 2021-04-21. NPR.org. en.
  3. Web site: IV . John-John Williams . After settling into Baltimore, award winning author Toni Tipton-Martin is plotting her next cooking move . 2021-04-21 . baltimoresun.com. 8 July 2020 .
  4. Web site: Stewart . Kayla . June 18, 2020 . Toni Tipton-Martin's Jubilee Is a Source of Black Joy . SeriousEats.com.
  5. Web site: The Blue Grass Cook Book . 2021-07-27 . The University Press of Kentucky . en-US.
  6. Web site: Biography Toni Tipton-Martin . 2021-07-27 . en-US.
  7. Book: Tipton-Martin . Toni . The Jemima Code Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks By Toni Tipton-Martin; forewords by John Egerton and Barbara Haber . 2015-07-20 . University of Texas Press . 978-0-292-74548-3 . en.
  8. Web site: Toni Tipton-Martin James Beard Foundation . 2021-07-27 . www.jamesbeard.org . en.
  9. Web site: Broyles . Addie . 'Jubilee' wins James Beard Award for best American cookbook . 2021-07-27 . Austin American-Statesman . en-US.
  10. News: Heil . Emily . June 2, 2021 . Toni Tipton-Martin, groundbreaking author and editor, wins Julia Child Award . 2022-02-01 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  11. Web site: Steel . Tanya . Trailblazer Award Winners . 2021-07-27 . IACP . en-US.
  12. Web site: Steel . Tanya . Cookbook Award Winners & Runners-Up . 2021-07-27 . IACP . en-US.
  13. 2023 . Toni Tipton-Martin . Who's Who Among African Americans . Gale . Gale in Context: Biography.

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