Bev Shaffer is a chef, cooking school instructor and author specializing in recipe development and recipe testing. She is the owner of COOK.WRITE.TRAVEL.REPEAT…a culinary consulting and food/travel writing business.

Some accomplishments ~ she has developed more than 18,000 recipes on a wide variety of subjects, and was invited to present a Winter Comfort Food Workshop (with Brownies, oh my!) at The James Beard House in New York City.

She is the author of six cookbooks: No Reservations Required, BROWNIES To Die For!, The Mustard Seed Market & Café Natural Foods Cookbook, COOKIES To Die For! [released in a French language version as well as English], and CAKES To Die For as well as CHOCOLATE DESSERTS To Die For!

Bev was also culinary (cookbook) editor for the books Healing Gourmet: Eat to Lower Cholesterol and Healing Gourmet: Eat to Boost Fertility, and was featured in Cooking with Les Dames D’Escoffier.

Her “Ask Bev” food column was a popular feature in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine and Wednesday’s TASTE section; and Northern Ohio Live magazine featured her “Gadget Freak” column.

Bev has made over 150 appearances on the four major Cleveland networks, on public television, and has been a producer and host of an award winning cooking show. A virtual chef for an instructional/educational website for public television, Bev created a “cooking on camera” instructional class for Cuyahoga Community College.

She’s presented radio “cooking” segments on WAKR’s AM Morning Drive Time and the popular “Bev’s Kitchen”, aired throughout the day on WCLV FM. Standing room only was the norm for her chocolate hands-on presentations at the FOODamental Studio at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago.