Melinda C. Shepherd
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Melinda Shepherd received a B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also studied for two years as a postgraduate at the University of Toronto.
She became an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica in 1988 and served as a senior editor of Britannica Book of the Year from 2004 to 2016.
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Grant Achatz is an American chef whose culinary innovations made him a leader in Modernist cuisine and a trailblazer in the use of molecular gastronomy. Achatz grew up in a small town in eastern Michigan, where he worked at his parents’ family diner. After graduating in 1994 from the Culinary…
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