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Harold McGee (Harold James McGee) was born on 3 October, 1951 in United States, is an American author (born 1951). Discover Harold McGee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 3 October, 1951
Birthday 3 October
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Nationality United States

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His wife is Sharon R. Long (m. July 7, 1979-2004)

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1951

Harold James McGee (born October 3, 1951) is an American author who writes about the chemistry and history of food science and cooking.

McGee was born on 3 October 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Louise (Hanney) and Charles Gilbert McGee, and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois.

1973

He was educated at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), initially studying astronomy, but graduating with a B.S. in Literature in 1973.

1978

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.

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.

1979

McGee married his college girlfriend Sharon Rugel Long on July 7, 1979; they divorced in 2004.

1984

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.

1986

They had two children, son John (born 1986) and daughter Florence (born 1988).

2020

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.

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.

McGee's scientific approach to cooking has been embraced and popularized by chefs and authors such as David Chang and J. Kenji Lopez-Alt.