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Harold McGee: Works, Career, Science & Technology

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.

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Harold McGee topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Career, Science and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around Harold McGee.

Related topics
31
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
35
Extracted relationships
46
Concept neighborhoods
25
Bridge connections
35

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 17 topics
Early life · 9 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Personal life · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Known for
On Food and Cooking
Alma mater
California Institute of Technology (BS) · Yale University (PhD)
Born
Harold James McGee (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 74)
Children
2
Doctoral advisor
Harold Bloom
Fields
Cooking · Chemistry · Food science · Kitchen science · Molecular gastronomy

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life

Career

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Harold McGee connects Entity context

The extracted context around Harold McGee shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Harold McGee → Before, Cookery, Denver Natural History Museum, Eating, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fine Cooking, Food, For, French Culinary Institute, He, Health, His, McGee, Nature, New York City, New York Times, Nils Norén, Oxford Symposia, Physics Today, Series Another extracted example is Harold McGee → Chemistry, Cooking, Food science, Kitchen science, Molecular gastronomy. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Harold McGee

Top relations

related to Career · 28
Harold McGee → Before, Cookery, Denver Natural History Museum, Eating, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fine Cooking, Food, For, French Culinary Institute, He, Health, His, McGee, Nature, New York City, New York Times, Nils Norén, Oxford Symposia, Physics Today, Series
Fields · 5
Harold McGee → Chemistry, Cooking, Food science, Kitchen science, Molecular gastronomy
Alma mater · 2
Harold McGee → California Institute of Technology (BS), Yale University (PhD)
Born · 1
Harold McGee → Harold James McGee (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 74)
Children · 1
Harold McGee → 2
Doctoral advisor · 1
Harold McGee → Harold Bloom
Known for · 1
Harold McGee → On Food and Cooking
Spouse · 1
Harold McGee → .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…
Thesis · 1
Harold McGee → Keats and the Progress of Taste (1978)
Website · 1
Harold McGee → www.curiouscook.com

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

cooking food science mcgee harold born kitchen chemistry book 2004 sharon long institute yale university known career new york october

Harold McGee relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 46 structured relationships around Harold McGee. Examples in this analysis include Harold McGee → Alma mater → California Institute of Technology (BS) and Harold McGee → Alma mater → Yale University (PhD). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Harold McGeeAlma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)1.00infobox
Harold McGeeAlma materYale University (PhD)1.00infobox
Harold McGeeBornHarold James McGee (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 74)1.00infobox
Harold McGeeChildren21.00infobox
Harold McGeeDoctoral advisorHarold Bloom1.00infobox
Harold McGeeFieldsCooking1.00infobox
Harold McGeeFieldsChemistry1.00infobox
Harold McGeeFieldsFood science1.00infobox
Harold McGeeFieldsKitchen science1.00infobox
Harold McGeeFieldsMolecular gastronomy1.00infobox
Harold McGeeKnown forOn Food and Cooking1.00infobox
Harold McGeeSpouse.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…1.00infobox
Harold McGeeThesisKeats and the Progress of Taste (1978)1.00infobox
Harold McGeeWebsitewww.curiouscook.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Harold McGee bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Bloom, Keats and October. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Harold McGee
    • Bloom
    • Keats
    • October
    • Mcgee
    • Chemistry
    • University
    • Born
    • Sharon
    • Science
    • Career
    • Children
    • Cooking
  • harold mcgee
    • Bloom
    • Keats
    • October
    • Mcgee
    • Chemistry
    • University
    • Born
    • Career
    • Science
    • Institute
    • Long
    • Sharon
  • food science
    • Cooking
    • Science
    • Mcgee
    • Book
    • Kitchen
    • Literature
    • Awards
    • Career
    • History
    • Known
    • October
    • Universities
  • cooking
    • Food
    • Science
    • Book
    • Kitchen
    • Mcgee
    • Awards
    • Career
    • History
    • Known
    • October
    • Scientific
    • Universities
  • on food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
    • Cooking
    • Food
    • Science
    • Mcgee
    • Book
    • Kitchen
    • Literature
    • Awards
    • Career
    • History
    • Known
    • October
  • harold bloom
    • Keats
    • Bloom
    • Harold
    • October
    • Mcgee
    • Chemistry
    • University
    • Born
    • Career
    • Children
    • Graduating
    • John
  • yale university
    • Phd
    • University
    • Yale
    • Mcgee
    • Awards
    • Bloom
    • Bs
    • California
    • Career
    • Graduating
    • John
    • Keats
  • food & wine
    • Cooking
    • Science
    • Mcgee
    • Book
    • Kitchen
    • Awards
    • Career
    • History
    • Known
    • October
    • Universities
    • Yale

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Harold McGee, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Harold McGee with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Harold McGeeCareer · splits 18 ⟂ 18
Harold McGeeEarly life · splits 26 ⟂ 10
Harold McGeeOverview · splits 31 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Harold McGee

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples46
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Harold McGee to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Career, Science & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Harold McGee · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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