Sheri Castle

Experience

Highlights

• Sheri Castle is the author of multiple cookbooks. The New Southern Garden Cookbook was named Southern Cookbook of the year and a NYT notable book. The Southern Living Community Cookbook was an IACP finalist.
  
• Host and Producer of The Key Ingredient, a cooking show on PBS with regional and international distribution.
  
• Contributing Editor of Southern Living, having written dozens of features, stories, and recipes beginning in 1998.
  
• Prolific freelance writer, recipe developer, and recipe tester for multiple national magazines and media outlets
  
• The Southern Foodways Alliance in 2019 named Sheri on the Twenty Living Legends of Southern Food, calling her "The Storyteller." The description of her contributions said, “She has revealed herself to be our best advocate for the rich history of Southern home cooking.”
• Beloved avocational cooking teacher, having taught at cooking schools around the country. Known for her practical know how and ability to convey useful, practical information that inspires and informs home cooks.
• Engaging and popular guest on podcasts, radio shows, TV shows, and documentaries
• Entertaining public speaker who appears at food festivals, literary events, and cultural engagements.

Honors and Awards

• SIBA 2012 Cookbook of the Year Award for The New Southern Garden Cookbook
• The Southern Living Community Cookbook: Celebrating Food and Fellowship in the American South was a finalist for a 2014 IACP excellence award.
• In 2015, Sheri was one of seven writers in the country accepted to the inaugural session of the Southern Foodways Alliance’s nonfiction writing workshop at the Rivendell Writers' Colony.
• Sheri won the 2011 AIWF Foundation Scholarship for Recipe Writing presented in honor of Julia Child.
• She was on the Gilt Taste team that won the 2012 Bert Green Journalism New Media Award for instructive food articles with recipes from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).