The former Dining Editor and Restaurant Critic of The Dallas Morning News, author of eight cookbooks, and an award-winning journalist as well as television and radio personality, Dotty Griffith brings a lifetime of food journalism and culinary experience to her consulting practice, The Critical Edge.

Ms. Griffith provides content for print, broadcast and online media and serves as a valuable resource to restaurants and the hospitality industry. She is a nationally recognized culinary authority, judge for national recipe contests, cook-offs and cookbook competitions. Her work on the barbecue website, www.smokinaphattie.com, chronicles the country’s top barbecue competitions in the phenomenon known as the foodie version of NASCAR.

Also a popular speaker, she has shared her food and dining expertise on television shows such as Fox & Friends, The Travel Channel, The Food Network, and local broadcasts across the country.  

She is a regular contributor to Modern Luxury Dallas, Culinary Concierge and Texas Highways magazines. Her articles and recipes have appeared in Gourmet Magazine, The Ladies Home  Journal, Money Magazine Southern Living, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, Wine Spectator and The Smithsonian.  

Ms. Griffith’s most recent cookbooks are The Contemporary Cowboy Cookbook (Lone Star Books), Celebrating Barbecue (Simon and Schuster), and The Texas Holiday Cookbook (Gulf Publishing).  She is a member of the Les Dames d’ Escoffier,the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and an executive committee member of the IACP Cookbook Awards Committee.

PUBLISHED WORKS

BOOKS

The Contemporary Cowboy Cookbook
Hard Cover, 2002, Lone Star Books, soft cover edition, 2004

Celebrating Barbecue
2002, Simon and Schuster

The Texas Holiday Cookbook
1997, Gulf Publishing, 15,000 sold out in two months

Cooking with Days of Our Lives
1997, Rutledge Hill Press, currently listed in the “Top 10 Cookbook Best Sellers,” New York Library Journal, as of 2/1/98, 30,000 copies sold in national distribution

Buns of Steel Cookbook and Saladmaster Cookbook,
Ghostwriter, 1996, Summit Publishing, sales N/A in national distribution

Dallas Cuisine
1993, Two Lane Press, 6,000 copies sold in regional distribution

Gourmet Grains, Beans and Rice
1992, Taylor Publishing, 14,000 copies sold in regional distribution

Wild about Chili
1985, Barron’s, 25,000 copies sold in international distribution.

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

Modern Luxury Dallas
Culinary Concierge
Texas Highways
The Dallas Morning News
Southwest Spirit
The Ladies Home Journal
Gourmet
The New York Times
Money Magazine
The Smithsonian
Travel and Leisure
Texas Highways Magazine
The Wine Spectator
Metropolitan Home

TELEVISION AND RADIO EXPERIENCE

Regular guest host and cooking/dining segment talent “Good Morning Texas” Channel 8, WFAA Television, Dallas; Regular guest dining segments TXCN Cable Television, Dallas; Host of “In the Kitchen with Dotty” on KRLD Radio, a weekday culinary talk show which aired two year.s

Guest on FOX NETWORK FOX & FRIENDS; Public Broadcasting System series on barbecue; The Food Network; WFAA – TV (ABC), Dallas, Good Morning Texas; KTVTV – TV (NBC), Dallas, Positively Texas, numerous interviews; KENS – TV, San Antonio; KDFW-TV (CBS), Dallas; KRLD-AM Radio1080, Dallas, KHOU-TV, Houston; KTBC-TV, Austin; KVUE-TV, Austin; KUHT-TV, Houston.

CONTEST JUDGE

Best of the West Rib Cook-off, 1999,2001, 2005, 2006 Reno, Nevada
Jack Daniels Invitational Barbecue Cook-off, 1995, Lynchburg, Tenn.
Invitational Rib Cook-off, Richmond, Va., 1984
Memphis in May, Memphis, Tenn. 1984

AFFILIATIONS

1978 – present Association of Food Journalists
Vice President 1984 – 1986; President, 1986- 1989

1981- present Les Dames d’Escoffier
Charter member, Dallas chapter; Second Vice – President

1990 – present International Association of Culinary Professionals
Cookbook Awards Committee, 1991 – 1992 and 1995 – 1997
Chairman, IACP Awards Committee, 1998 – 1999

1991 – 2004 James Beard Foundation Restaurant Awards Committee