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Shirley Corriher

Shirley Corriher

Most people recognize Shirley as the “Mad Scientist” on Good Eats TV show. She has appeared on: Good Eats, Smart Solutions, Sara Moulton Cooking Live, Homecooking, and Nathalie Dupree, to name a few and once on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Shirley Corriher was The Best Cooking Teacher of the Year In Bon Appétit's "Best of the Best" Annual Food and Entertaining Awards, 2001. In March 2004, Shirley received the prestigious Research Chefs’ Holleman Award for outstanding achievement in technical communication. She is also in Who's Who of American Women, 2002 through 2005, and Who’s Who.

She has long been a leading food writer and syndicated columnist. Her book, CookWise was the James Beard Awards winner for Best Reference and Technique Book of 1997 and has sold over 200,000 copies. Shirley was a contributing editor and wrote a regular column for Fine Cooking for 10 years, 1994 through 2004, and she continues to write a regular syndicated column in The Los Angeles Time Syndicate's Great Chefs Series (1998-present), now the Chicago Tribune’s Media Services.