Whitney Miller grew up in the small town of Poplarville, Mississippi, where her mother, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers taught her to cook at an early age. Her passion for cooking led her to the reality cooking show MasterChef in 2010, where at the age of twenty-two she became the first winner of the show. Soon afterward, she obtained a bachelor’s degree-, with an emphasis in nutrition, from The University of Southern Mississippi.
Whitney’s Southern cuisine has been enjoyed all over the United States and across the globe at her cooking events and demonstrations. She was the featured chef at Chefdance within the Sundance film festival in 2013 as well as at the St. Regis Tianjin in China for their Southern Food Promotion. She has shared her recipes and cooking tips through cooking demonstrations from New York City to Cape Town, South Africa.
Her career includes food writing and recipe development. Her recipes have been featured in Flavors, Taste of Home, Southern Living, Clean Eating, Cooking Light, Southern Lady, and People magazine.
Whitney uses her passion for cooking to help others, donating her speaking and cooking services to nonprofit organizations such as the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Tim Tebow Foundation, L.I.M.B.S International, and the Plant City Food Bank. She thanks Brian West with the Plant City Food Bank for introducing her to her husband, Ryan Humphrey at the food bank’s fundraising dinner last year.
Whitney lives in Plant City, Florida with her husband. Follow her on Twitter (@WhitneyMillerH) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WhitneyMillerH) or visit her website www.whitneymiller.net to learn more about her speaking and cooking events.