Sheryll Bellman

BIOGRAPHY Sheryll Bellman is the author of three books on cultural history. Through the Shopping Glass-A Century of New York Christmas Windows (Rizzoli, 2000), America’s Great Delis-Recipes and Traditions from Coast to Coast (Collector’s Press, 2005 and revised by Seller’s Publications 2010) and America’s Little Italys--Recipes and Traditions From Coast to Coast (Seller’s Publications 2011). Ms. Bellman has been a guest on NPR, WOR, WHYY, WNYC, The Chef’s Table, The Phil Blazer Show, Cooking with Jackie and the Gary Butler Show on XM radio. Ms. Bellman was featured for 2 years on The Jane Hansen Holiday Windows Show on NBC in New York City, Good Morning Baltimore, the ABC Early Morning Show and just recently was a guest on Good Day NY on Fox 5 in New York. She was featured in Cindy Adams’ column in the NY Post and articles about her books have been featured in the NY Times, NY Daily News, Time Magazine, World Jewish Digest, Jewish Women’s Magazine, The Foreword, The Jewish Star, Hadassah Magazine, Jewish World, Dance Review Magazine, The El Paso Times, The Baltimore Sun, and San Diego Jewish Magazine where her first book was chosen as one of the best books of 2001. She has written articles for USA Today, The Hadassah Magazine, Jewish World Magazine, The Detroit Jewish News and Natural Health Magazine as well as having many over the phone interviews for small publications and web sites. America’s Great Delis was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for 2006. She also had numerous book signings for both books around the country and was the guest author in 2001 on the Christmas sailing on the QE11. She was a guest lecturer at the Princeton Club for Through the Shopping Glass and spent two seasons on the Jewish Book Council tour circuit having lectured at Jewish Book Fairs in Hartford, New Haven, Columbus, Sarasota, Pasadena, West Hampton Beach, NY, The American Jewish University in Los Angeles and The Ocean County Library in New Jersey. Her book was featured on the Food Network show, The Secret Life of Delis. She was a finalist for The Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award in the 2010 cookbook division for her book America’s Little Italys. In 1994, she conceived of and published a children’s educational video with the premise of constructing a play house-from a dream to reality, winning the prestigious Dove Award for excellence. Ms. Bellman holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of Arizona and has done graduate work towards a PhD in Immunology from Wayne State University. History, food and design have always been of interest to her, and writing about cultural history and food was a perfect niche. Ms. Bellman has three children and five grandsons and lives with her husband of 44 years in New York City and Newtown, Connecticut.