Marion Cunningham (1922 in California) is an award-winning American food writer.
Cunningham was responsible for the 1990 revision of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and is the author of The Breakfast Book, and Cooking with Children. She travels frequently throughout America giving cooking demonstrations (some with James Beard), has contributed articles to "Bon Appetit," "Food & Wine," and "Gourmet" magazines, and writes a column for the San Francisco Chronicle and the "Los Angeles Times." Over seventy episodes of her television series Cunningham & Company appear regularly on the Food Network.
In 1993, Cunningham received the Grand Dame award from Les Dames d'Escoffier "in recognition and appreciation of her extraordinary achievement and contribution to the culinary arts." In 1994, she was named Scholar-in-Residence by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.