Adrian Miller is an American culinary historian, lawyer and public policy advisor. He is the author of Soul Food, which won the 2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and The President’s Kitchen Cabinet, which was nominated for a 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction. He also served as a White House advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Adrian is currently working on a history of African American barbecue, tentatively titled Black Smoke. He's kind of a big deal...

Adrian Miller is a food writer, attorney and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, CO. Adrian received an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. He is currently the executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches and, as such, is the first African American and the first layperson to hold that position. Miller’s first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time won the James Beard Foundation Award for Scholarship and Reference in 2014. His second book, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washington’s to the Obamas was published on Presidents Day 2017. It was a finalist for a 2018 NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work—Non-Fiction”; and the 2018 Colorado Book Award for History.