Biography

Cynthia Graubart

Cynthia Graubart is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and Emmy-nominated culinary television producer. She is the chair of the Broadcast Committee for the James Beard Foundation Awards. With decades of experience behind her, Cynthia has produced live multi-camera television specials, in-studio culinary television series, and on-location packages. From producing, to directing, to editing, she has hands-on knowledge of every type of production environment.

In front of the camera, Cynthia shares her passion for helping families spend more time at the dinner table together. She has appeared on Fox & Friends, Hallmark’s Home & Family, NY1, syndicated Daytime TV Show, and frequently appears on morning shows.

Cynthia most recently authored her 14th cookbook, Zucchini Love, companions to her Blueberry Love and Strawberry Love for Storey Publishers, a division of Workman. She and Nathalie Dupree wrote the best-selling (and James Beard Foundation Award of Excellence-winning) Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking, and Southern Biscuits. Cynthia received a M.F.K. Fisher Food Writing Award for the introduction to Chicken: A Savor the South Cookbook published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, SeriousEats.com, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, and Taste of the South, among many others.

In 2020, Cynthia co-founded, along with Virginia Willis, Culinary Media Training and Productions, a firm designed to help culinary professionals build the skills and confidence they need to work effectively in today’s digital environment with coaching and training on media skills, social media marketing, cookbook writing, and recipe testing and development.

She has been named a Georgia Grown Executive Chef and has cooked twice at the James Beard House. She returned once again to co-lead an all-female team of chefs to celebrate Nathalie Dupree’s 80th Birthday. 

Cynthia is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, a professional culinary organization with the mission to help foster the education of women in the culinary arts and related fields. Most recently, she was named a University of Georgia Grady School of Journalism Fellow and is currently at work on a history of community cookbooks in Georgia. Contact Cynthia here.