In 2019, Adrian received the Judge Henry N. In 2018, Adrian was awarded the Ruth Fertel “Keeper of the Flame Award” by the Southern Foodways Alliance, in recognition of his work on African American foodways. Adrian’s third book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, will be published Spring 2021. It was a finalist for a 2018 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction,” and the 2018 Colorado Book Award for History. His second book, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamaswas published on President’s Day 2017. Miller’s first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time won the James Beard Foundation Award for Scholarship and Reference in 2014. To accentuate this phenomenal history, Black Smoke profiles sixteen men and women who epitomized barbecue excellence.Īdrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, Colorado. You’ll see how African Americans became barbecue’s most effective ambassadors by giving those outside the South a taste of southern barbecue as freelance caterers at special events and restaurant entrepreneurs who settled in new communities during “The Great Migration.”įor generations, African Americans gave people of all types their first taste of barbecue. You’ll see the ways that African Americans made barbecue an essential part of social life in the rural South whether in religious life, politics, or special occasions. You’ll find out how barbecue permeated plantation culture and spread with slavery.
Black Smoke further explores different aspects of African American barbecue culture. Black Smoke describes how African Americans inherited a type of cooking that fused Native American meat smoking and European grilling techniques that became known as “barbecue.”īy the early 1800s, African Americans were firmly established as barbecue’s “go to” cooks. Join us as James Beard Award-winning author Adrian Miller discusses the history of African American barbecue culture from his book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. View presentation on Facebook and YouTube Adrian Miller (Submitted by Adrian Miller)įood Writer, Attorney, Certified Barbecue Judge
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