She started out as a food writer in Los Angeles accepted a job in Cleveland, becoming the first Black food editor of an American newspaper took a two-decade hiatus to raise her four children and spent 10 years researching a groundbreaking project.Īnd that doesn’t include the most recent highlight on her C.V., as a recipient of the annual Julia Child Award that came with a $50,000 grant she’s using to expand her current nonprofit to help aspiring food writers. Her road to Baltimore-and her life as a writer, archivist, historian, and broadcaster-was hardly a straightforward one. She now stores many of those cookbooks in her recently purchased Charles Village home, a 120-year-old fixer-upper that she shares with her husband, Bruce Martin, a Naval Academy grad. She found a veritable treasure trove of such books and recipes through her research and just kept going. Those were stories that were not being reported.” “But the African-American cookbook collecting began dominating my life when I started to hear stories that validated what I knew in my heart and soul but couldn’t prove: that African-American cooks had been knowledgeable and skilled. “I never intended to be a collector,” she says. James Beard Award-winner Toni Tipton-Martin never set out to amass more than 1,450 cookbooks, 450 of which were written by African Americans.
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