Toni Tipton Martin with Mixologist Tiffanie Barriere and Mike Jordan

As part of our culinary programming this year, chef and author Toni Tipton-Martin has curated a Jubilee track. In this 3rd instalment, Tiffanie Barriere, an acclaimed Atlanta bartender, currently working freelance as “The Drinking Coach," will be interviewed by Mike Jordan, an Atlanta-based writer. Barriere is also a public historian, and worked as a contributor on Tipton-Martin’s book Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking. Together they’ll present an educational evening, discussing bartending, gender, and race in the American south.

Tiffanie Barriere is the bartender’s bartender, an influencer and educator who has been awarded with some of the beverage industry’s highest honors. The Bar Smart graduate is a Tastemakers of the South award-winner who spent seven years as the beverage director of One Flew South the “Best Airport Bar in the World.” As an independent bartender she is known for creative and innovative cocktail menus for pop-dinners and bar consultancy clients; hosting mixology classes around the nation, and connecting culinary and farm culture with spirits. As a leader, she is a member of the Tales of the Cocktail Grants Committee, the James Beard Beverage Advisory Board, and a member of the Atlanta chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier. Her reputation as a public historian has opened doors for her to speak on panels at such venues as Fire, Flour & Fork, Southern Foodways Symposium, and the Soul Summit, and she has interpreted the cocktails of African American and women firsts in spirits at the James Beard House in New York City. The Louisiana-Texas native is the trustworthy mentor of some of the best bartenders and mixologists in the world. Tiffanie’s main goal is education, service, and fun with every pour.

Mike Jordan is an Atlanta-based writer who covers food, entertainment, technology, business, travel and culture for local and national media, including The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Atlanta Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Eater, Hypepotamus, and Thrillist, where he launched the Atlanta edition as founding editor. He lives in East Point with his daughter Sienna and wife Jacinta, with whom he hosts a recurring literary event called Lit: Books, Booze & Beats.

Toni Tipton-Martin is the author of Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking, a beautifully-photographed recipe collection that takes African American cooking beyond soul food, and The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, a widely-acclaimed, annotated bibliography that tells the story behind her rare collection. The Jemima Code also is the title of a traveling exhibit, featuring larger-than-life images of black cooks at work, curated from Martin’s gallery of authors. She is a contributor to the forthcoming anthology, Southern Women: More Than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Iconsand to Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original. In 2005, she published an historic reprint of an early 20th century cookbook, The Blue Grass Cook Book, by Minnie C. Fox, which contains the first known photographs of African American cooks and presents a new portrait of a role model working women can respect and learn from today. Toni also is co-author of A Taste of Heritage: New African-American Cuisine and wrote the chapter on the South for Culinaria: The Food of the United States.

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin available from local, indie bookseller Tall Tales

Jubilee Talks: Toni Tipton Martin with Mixologist Tiffanie Barriere and Mike Jordan Sponsored by Taste of Atlanta