Beth Dooley

Beth Dooley is a James Beard Award-winning food writer who has authored and co-authored over a dozen books celebrating the bounty of America’s Northern Heartland. She is a columnist for the Taste section of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, and appears regularly on KARE 11 (NBC) television and MPR Appetites with Tom Crann. She co-authored The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen with Sean Sherman, winner of the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook, 2018. Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine with Chef and Emmy Award winner, Loretta Oden, is her most recent book.

Other titles include: Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland with Lucia Watson, James Beard Award finalist. More recent titles include, Appetite for Change: Soulful Recipes from a North Minneapolis Kitchen, and Chile Clove and Cardamom: A Gastronomic Journey into the Fragrances and Flavors of Desert Cuisines, co-authored with Gary Paul Nabhan). The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future (a finalist for the IACP Award). Current projects include a forthcoming book with the Team Tortilla Crew, working title, NIXTA: The Art of Corn: Recipes, Stories, and Art Celebrating America’s Defining Crop Beth serves as Endowed Chair, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).