Klancy Miller
Klancy Miller is the author of the award-winning book For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food (published by Harvest Books/Harper Collins 2023). She also wrote Cooking Solo: The Fun of Cooking for Yourself (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016) and is the founder of For the Culture: A Magazine Celebrating Black Women and Femmes in Food and Wine.
After graduating from Columbia University, and working in international development in French Polynesia, she earned a diplôme de pâtisserie from Le Cordon Bleu Paris and apprenticed in the pastry kitchen at the Michelin-starred restaurant Taillevent. She later joined Le Cordon Bleu’s recipe development team, during which time she was featured on the Food Network.
Now based in Brooklyn, she continues to write about food and has contributed to The New York Times, Vogue, Washington Post, Food & Wine, Cherry Bombe, Bon Appétit, and Food 52. She has also guest-hosted Radio Cherry Bombe, appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Cut, The New York Times Food section, as well as on the Today Show, Food Network’s Recipe for Success, and the Cooking Channel’s Unique Sweets.
She is a James Beard Foundation award finalist, was honored as a 2022 IACP Trailblazer Awards Winner, and was the winner of the 2024 IACP award for Literary or Historical Food Writing.