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Wilbert Jones is the president of The Wilbert Jones Company, Inc., a Chicago based 24-year old food/beverage marketing and sales company. He has authored three cookbooks; The New Soul Food Cookbook (Carol Publishing Group, 1986 – won the Purple Reflection Award from the National Council of Negro Women, the oldest women’s organization in America), Mama’s Tea Cakes (Kensington Books, 1998), and Smothered Southern Foods (Kensington Books, 2006). In 2002, he was inducted into the prestigious Les Amis d’Escoffier Society of Chicago. Jones was the host of 2008 PBS national television show, Healthy Heritage Kitchen. In 2012, he co-authored Images of America: Chicago’s Gold Coast, a neighborhood where he has been a resident for 19 years. He was a board of director member of the Gold Coast Neighbors Association and served on its 50th anniversary committee. In 2014, he authored, Images of America: Chicago Blues, which profiled Mississippi Delta Blues Musicians migration to Chicago. In 2014, Wilbert was honored with the key to the blues capital of the world, the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi and named Culinary Ambassador of the entire Mississippi Delta. In 2011, he received his first key to the city, Sikeston, Missouri for being the keynote speaker at the 8th Annual Multi-County Women’s Health conference. Jones is also a contributor writer of Cuisine Noir Magazine and Prepared Foods Magazine.