Cynthia Clampitt

Cynthia Clampitt is a writer, speaker, geographer, and food historian. Her most recent book is Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest’s Remarkable History. Her books on food history are Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland and Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: From Wild Boar to Baconfest. In addition, she has written textbooks for almost every major educational publisher in the U.S., including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and National Geographic Learning.

Clampitt is also a popular speaker with a growing list of programs and clients across Illinois and around the Midwest. She has been a member of the Illinois Humanities “Road Scholar” program since 2014. Clampitt also writes for magazines and has three blogs, focused primarily on food, travel, and history.

In addition to the Society of Midland Authors, Clampitt is a member of the Society of Women Geographers, Culinary Historians of Chicago, and the Midwestern History Association. Her love of geography and food history has taken her to 37 countries on six continents, though she is now focused increasingly on the American Midwest. For more on Clampitt’s work, visit: http://www.worldplate.com.