Toni Tipton-Martin is an African-American food and nutrition journalist and author of several cookbooks, including Jubilee. She serves as the editor-in-chief for Cook's Country. She received the Julia Child Award in 2021, and two James Beard awards.^[1]

Tipton-Martin worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s.^[1] She moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1991, where she was the first Black person to serve as editor of a food section for a large U.S. newspaper.^[2] She was named as the editor in chief for Cook's Country in 2020, replacing former editor Tucker Shaw. Her role as editor-in-chief was noted as one of several Black women who were named to top roles for various magazines at the same time.^[1][2] Tipton-Martin's books focus on the cooking of African Americans, and as part of the work involved in writing them, Tipton-Martin researched various historical cookbooks by Black Americans.^[3][4] She self-published The Jemima Code after presenting it to an agent who then disappeared.^[3] In 2005, she published a reprint of an early 20th century cookbook, ^[5] Tipton-Martin appeared in the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog.She moved to Baltimore in 2018 with her husband.^[3] She is the mother of four.^[6]

• The Blue Grass Cook Book, by Minnie C. Fox (University Press of Kentucky, 2005). Tipton-Martin wrote the introduction.
• The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks (University of Texas Press, 2015)^[7]
• Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking (Clarkson Potter, 2019).
• Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks (2023).

Tipton-Martin is the winner of two James Beard awards.^[8] In 2016, she won the Reference and Scholarship award for The Jemima Code, and Jubilee was awarded Best American Cookbook in 2020.^[9] She was the 2021 recipient of the Julia Child Award from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.^[10] Tipton-Martin is the recipient of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Trailblazer Award (2020)^[11] and its Book of the Year Award (2020, for Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking).^[12]

• Media Award, American Heart Asn, 1988; ^[13]
• Nutrition Writing Award, Carnation County, 1988; ^[13]
• Media Excellence Award, Am Heart Asn, 1989; ^[13]
• Los Angeles Times Editorial Award, 1991; ^[13]
• Outstanding Dedication & Service Award, 1995: ^[13]
• Harry A. Bell Grants for Food Writers, 2003; ^[13]
• Austin Community Leadership Award, Univ Tex, 2010; ^[13]
• John Egerton Prize, Southern Foodways Alliance, Univ Miss, 2014; ^[13]
• James Beard Awards, 2016;
• International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Trailblazer Award, 2020;
• International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Book of the Year Award (2020, for Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking)

• Bertha L. Turner, she was mentioned in Tipton-Martin's book