An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time
By Kim Severson
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| Dolester Miles, who was named Outstanding Pastry Chef by the James Beard Foundation in May, has worked for more than 30 years at the Highlands Bar & Grill in Birmingham, Ala. CreditBob Miller for The New York Times |
Still, amid all the hand-wringing over politics and privilege, it was Ms. Miles’s win that somehow captured hearts. In her own small way, she was like Meghan Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, at the royal wedding: a secondary character in a larger, predominantly white narrative who emerged as an African-American beacon.
“Her honor acknowledges and celebrates generations of restaurant and home cooks whose recipes got lost in the their employers’ brands,” said Toni Tipton-Martin, a food journalist whose 2015 book, “The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African-American Cookbooks,” explored the history of black cooks in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/dining/dolester-miles-alabama-pastry-chef.html?emc=edit_nn_20180530&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=3886749920180530&te=1
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