`

Nebraska Authors

Merle Ellis

AKA: Merle Bert Ellis, Jr.

Born 1934-01-12 Sioux City, IA (USA)

Died 2010-01-20
Tiburon, CA (USA)

Celebrity Butcher and Writer

Places Lived

Allen, NE
Worthington, MN
Fort Ord, CA
San Francisco, CA
Mill Valley, CA
Tiburon, CA

Author Of

  • Nonfiction

Keywords

Meat; Butchering Techniques

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting, 1959, San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA

Occupation

Butcher
Stage Manager, KPIX TV, San Francisco, CA
Executive Producer of Program Development, NBC Station KRON, San Francisco, CA
Television Personality
Cook for Army Base (Fort Ord)
Korean War Veteran
Journalist
Author

Places Worked

TV Station KPIX, San Francisco, CA
TV Station KRON, San Francisco, CA
Mill Valley Market, Mill Valley, CA
Petaluma Market, Petaluma, CA

Bibliography

"The Butcher," a nationally syndicated newspaper column
Cutting Up in the Kitchen: The Butcher's Guide to Saving Money on Meat and Poultry. 1975.
The Great American Meat Book. 1996.

We appreciate corrections and additions to our information about authors, but please read the following guidelines and caveats carefully.

  • The Nebraska Authors database is based on publicly available sources. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information. We cannot include unsourced information in the database.
  • We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database.
  • To include an image on an author profile, please send jpg attachment to nebraskaauthors@lincoln.ne.gov. A photo-release agreement is required before the image will be published on this site.
  • Because of the way we are staffed, expect corrections or additions to take time, sometimes up to three months.
  • While we initially included some actual links to external URLs in the database, we will in the future no longer provide functioning links. We will instead record the presence of specific external materials in language that we hope will help intelligent users find it themselves. Web rot, in which actual materials remain online but undergo changes in their URLs, is too demanding in terms of staff time for us to hope to keep external links current.

Please copy, fill out the form below, and email it to heritage@lincoln.ne.gov to suggest a change.

/
Merle Ellis
merle-ellis

Do you have corrections for the above information or other information to add?:

(e.g. Author is buried in Fremont, not in David City / Also wrote for the Daily Nebraskan during her time as a student)