For as long as she can remember, Whitney Miller has been in the kitchen cooking. Growing up in a very food, faith, and family-oriented environment, she was always in the kitchen cooking with her mom and two sisters or her great-grandmother, who is ninety-five today and still cooking. Benefiting from her great-grandmother’s inspiration in Southern hospitality and cooking large Sunday dinners for extended family and friends, Whitney has aspired to be a great cook from an early age.

After graduating from Pearl River Community College, she enrolled in the University of Southern Mississippi. In her senior year, at the age of twenty two, she auditioned and won Fox’s show “Masterchef” and gained the title of Fox’s 1st U. S. Masterchef. Also, because of her talent on the show with desserts, Whitney was deemed the “Pastry Princess.” She has since obtained a degree, with an emphasis in nutrition, from The University of Southern Mississippi.

Whitney has spent time doing cooking demonstrations such as Anaheim’s Celebrity Food and Gift Show with TLC’s Little Chocolatiers and the 2011 Chicago Home and Housewares Show with other celebrity chefs such as Paula Deen, Curtis Stone, and Guy Fieri. She also has acted as a celebrity judge for numerous cooking contests such as B.I.O Special Events Wedding Cake Competition with Duff Goldman, local ABC station’s Pie Wars, and Memphis Cupcake Camp Competition. Whitney’s cookbook Modern Hospitality Simple Recipes with Southern Charm with foreword by Gordon Ramsay is published by Rodale. Whitney’s cooking style encompasses using fresh ingredients and putting her own modern twist on Southern classics. Her recipes have appeared in national publications such as People magazine, Spirit of Women magazine, Masterchef magazine, and on Self.com.

She currently resides in Poplarville, MS with her family.