Article about the James Beard dessert winner

Hi- I just ran across this article in the New York Times about the latest winner of the James Beard dessert chef category. She has worked at a Birmingham restaurant since 1981, and she is famous for her coconut pecan cake, for which the restaurant charges $9 a slice. Her name is Dolester Miles. Here is the link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/dini ... -chef.html

This piece actually makes me want to visit Alabama. I was just telling my mum it is one of two southern states I have never visited.

Ava - coconut pecan cake....as in PECAN!!!

Thanks for posting. Those of you who also enjoyed reading this might want to check out a book written by a food journalist quoted in this piece:

“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.

Reading about Dolester Miles made me want to revisit The Jemima Code. I checked this book out from the library when it was first published and I found it fascinating.