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Harold James McGee (born October 3, 1951) is an American author who writes about the chemistry and history of food science and cooking. He is best known for his seminal book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, first published in 1984 and revised in 2004. Early life McGee was born on 3 October 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Louise (Hanney) and Charles Gilbert McGee, and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), initially studying astronomy, but graduating with a B.S. in Literature in 1973. He went on to do a Ph.D. on the romantic poetry of John Keats supervised by Harold Bloom at Yale University, graduating in 1978. Career Before becoming a food science writer, McGee was a literature and writing instructor at Yale. He has also written for Nature, Health, The New York Times, the World Book Encyclopedia, The Art of Eating, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, and Physics Today. He has lectured on kitchen chemistry at cooking schools, universities, the Oxford Symposia on Food and Cookery, the Denver Natural History Museum, and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. For a brief time he wrote a regular column for the New York Times, The Curious Cook, which examined, and often debunked, conventional kitchen wisdom. His latest book is Nose dive: a field guide to the world's smells (2020).With Dave Arnold and Nils Norén, McGee teaches a three-day class, The Harold McGee Lecture Series, at the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Awards and honors McGee is a visiting scholar at Harvard University.His book On Food and Cooking has won numerous awards and is used widely in food science courses at many universities. Influences McGee's scientific approach to cooking has been embraced and popularized by chefs and authors such as David Chang and J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Personal life McGee married his college girlfriend Sharon Rugel Long on July 7, 1979; they divorced in 2004. They had two children, son John (born 1986) and daughter Florence (born 1988). References. Discover the Harold Mcgee popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Harold Mcgee books.

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  • Ratio synopsis, comments

    Ratio

    Michael Ruhlman

    Michael Ruhlman’s groundbreaking New York Times bestseller takes us to the very “truth” of cooking: it is not about recipes but rather about basic ratios and fundamental techniques...

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    The Noma Guide to Fermentation

    René Redzepi & David Zilber

    New York Times BestsellerNamed one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta JournalConstitution...

  • The Elements of Cooking synopsis, comments

    The Elements of Cooking

    Michael Ruhlman

    In The Elements of Cooking, New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman deconstructs the essential knowledge of the kitchen to reveal what professional chefs know only after ...

  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat synopsis, comments

    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Samin Nosrat

    More than 1 million copies sold New York Times bestseller Winner of the James Beard Award and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards Available as a Netflix series Transform how you prep,...

  • The Book of Cocktail Ratios synopsis, comments

    The Book of Cocktail Ratios

    Michael Ruhlman & Marcella Kriebel

    New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman applies the principles of his innovative book Ratioabout the relationships of ingredients to each otherin this delightful backtoba...

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    The No Recipe Cookbook

    Susan Crowther & Roland G. Henin

    What has happened to cooking? Where has it gone? For most people, it is left to the experts in restaurants and on television. Thanks to the constant availability of takeout, frozen...