DOTTY GRIFFITH

Best selling cookbook author, award-winning journalist, television and radio personality, Dotty Griffith brings a lifetime of food journalism and culinary experience to everything she does. She is former Food Editor and Restaurant Critic of The Dallas Morning News. Dotty is the author of nine cookbooks including the Texas Holiday Cookbook, Second Edition, released last fall.

Ms. Griffith provides content for print, broadcast and online media and serves as a valuable resource to restaurants and the hospitality industry. She is a nationally recognized culinary authority, judge for national recipe contests, cook-offs and cookbook competitions. Also a popular speaker, she has shared her food and dining expertise on television shows such as Fox & Friends, The Travel Channel, The Food Network, and local broadcasts across the country.

Her articles and recipes have appeared in Gourmet Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, Money Magazine Southern Living, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, Wine Spectator and The Smithsonian.

Ms. Griffith’s most recent cookbooks are the second edition of The Texas Holiday Cookbook, (Gulf Publishing), The Contemporary Cowboy Cookbook (Lone Star Books), and Celebrating Barbecue (Simon and Schuster). She is a member of the Les Dames d’ Escoffier, the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and a veteran of the IACP Cookbook Awards Committee and the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from The University of Texas and a Masters of Liberal Arts degree from Southern Methodist University.

PUBLISHED WORKS

BOOKS

The Texas Holiday Cookbook, Second Edition
2013, Taylor Publishing, Hard Cover

The Contemporary Cowboy Cookbook
Soft cover edition, 2004, Hard Cover, 2002, Lone Star Books

Celebrating Barbecue
2002, Simon and Schuster

The Texas Holiday Cookbook
1997, Gulf Publishing, 15,000 sold out in two months

Cooking with Days of Our Lives
1997, Rutledge Hill Press, currently listed in the “Top 10 Cookbook Best Sellers,” New York Library Journal, as of 2/1/98, 30,000 copies sold in national distribution

Buns of Steel Cookbook and Saladmaster Cookbook,
Ghostwriter, 1996, Summit Publishing, sales N/A in national distribution

Dallas Cuisine
1993, Two Lane Press, 6,000 copies sold in regional distribution

Gourmet Grains, Beans and Rice
1992, Taylor Publishing, 14,000 copies sold in regional distribution

Wild about Chili
1985, Barron’s, 25,000 copies sold in international distribution.