Background

Cheryl Jamison was born on June 17, 1953 in Illinois, United States, in the family of Marcellus M. and Betty E. Alters.

Education

In 1975 Cheryl received B.A. at Illinois State University, and then an M.A. at the University of Illinois.

Career

Together with her husband she wrote 18 food-related books, including 100 Grill Recipes You Can’t Live Without, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking & Entertaining, Born to Grill and Smoke & Spice, which is used to train chefs at the Culinary Institute of America and has sold more than 1 million copies. They taught cooking classes, wrote articles about food for national magazines, gave lectures and judged cooking contests.

Achievements

• She won four James Beard Foundation awards for culinary writing and was the author of some two dozen travel books and cookbooks.

Works

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  • A Real American Breakfast: The Best Meal of the Day, Any Time of the Day

    (Compiled from diners, inns, and everything in between, a ...)

    2002
  • Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating One Hundred Years of Distinctive Home Cooking

    (Celebrates the state's truly distinctive cooking, a blend...)

    2012
  • Smoke & Spice: Cooking With Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue 2014
  • Born to Grill: An American Celebration 2004
  • Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook: The Traditional Cooking Of New Mexico 2014
  • The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico 1995
  • Texas Home Cooking: 400 Terrific and Comforting Recipes Full of Big, Bright Flavors and Loads of Down-Home Goodness (America Cooks) 1993
  • The Barbecue Lover's Big Book of BBQ Sauces: 225 Extraordinary Sauces, Rubs, Marinades, Mops, Bastes, Pastes, and Salsas, for Smoke-Cooking or Grilling 2015

Personality

Cheryl is the detail, nuts-and-bolts person. She is also very generous.

Connections

In 1985 Cheryl married a writer Bill Jamison, and they have a stepdaughter Heather Jamison Neale.

Father:

Marcellus M. Alters

Mother:

Betty E. Alters

husband:

Bill Jamison

stepdaughter:

Heather Jamison Neale