In Chicago, he'll be joined by representatives of Colorado's nominees for the 2022 James Beard Chef and Restaurants Awards. The Little Nell in Aspen is a finalist for its wine program, and five local chefs swept the Best Chef, Mountain category: Dana Rodriguez (Work & Class), Caroline Glover (Annette), Eric Skokan (Black Cat Farm Bistro), Cody Cheetham (Tavernetta) and Jose Avila (El Borrego Negro).īlack Smoke was also recently nominated for a Colorado Book Award. This time, he's going to start practicing an acceptance speech as well as his "I'm happy you won" face. Back in 2014, that year's awards ceremony was in New York City, and Miller was there to hear that Soul Food was the winner. He'll travel to Chicago in June for the awards ceremony. The news came on a particularly symbolic day: the one-year anniversary of Black Smoke's release. He was also profiled in another nominee: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food, by Marcus Samuelsson with Osayi Endolyn. Foodways category, Miller contributed an essay on the cookout to Bryant Terry's Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora.
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He appeared in the 2021 Netflix Series High on the Hog, which is nominated in the Documentary/Docuseries Visual Media category. Not only is his book nominated in the Reference, History and Scholarship category, but Miller played a part in three other works on the list of honorees. "Maybe I should just not wait," he jokes. For 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 Obamas, Miller was ready and waiting for an announcement that never came.