Mollie Katzen
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Mollie Katzen is an American chef
, cookbook
author and artist. She is best known for her vegetarian cookbook, the Moosewood Cookbook
(1977), inspired by the Moosewood Restaurant
collective she helped create near Cornell University
and Ithaca College
. She has authored and illustrated several other best-selling vegetarian cookbooks, including The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982), Still Life with Menu (1988), and Vegetable Heaven and Sunlight Cafe (1997); three children's cookbooks (Pretend Soup (1994), Honest Pretzels and Salad People (1999) and recently co-authored (with Walter Willett
) Eat, Drink and Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry. She has lectured extensively on nutrition and hosted a cooking program on the Public Broadcasting Service
.
She attended the Eastman School of Music
and Cornell University
, and received her bachelor's degree
in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute
. She is the sister of Boston Symphony Orchestra
horn player Daniel Katzen
.
With over 5 million books in print, Mollie Katzen is listed by The New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time. Named by Health Magazine as one of the five "Women Who Changed the Way We Eat," and personally selected by the Dean as a founding member of the new Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council, Ms. Katzen holds a charter seat at the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable and was an inaugural inductee to new Natural Health Hall of Fame. Largely credited with moving healthful gourmet food from the fringe to the center of American dinner plates, Ms. Katzen has now formed a partnership with Harvard University as both a consultant to Harvard University Dining and the architect of their new, groundbreaking Food Literacy Initiative.
An award-winning illustrator and designer as well as an author and food/nutrition/cultural history scholar, Mollie Katzen is best known as the author of the Moosewood Cookbook
, as well as the bestsellers The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu, Vegetable Heaven (winner of the International Cookbook Revue Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook of the Year and a Top Finalist for the Julia Child Awards)—and the award-winning children's cookbooks, Pretend Soup and Honest Pretzels (named a Notable Book by the American Librarians' Association). Since 1995, Mollie Katzen has also been the host of four highly-rated cooking series seen nationwide on public television. Ms. Katzen's recent work includes a 400-recipe breakfast book, Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café (Hyperion - September 2002), which was chosen by Book Magazine as one of the five best cookbooks of 2002. Her latest publication, "The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without" (Hyperion - October 2007), includes 100 vegetable side dishes that can easily move to the center of the plate if one chooses.
Katzen's latest book, Get Cooking (HarperStudio – Oct 2009), continues her cookbook trend. The latest book is aimed at beginning cookers and contains recipes with the “relative minimum number of ingredients.” For the book, Katzen acted as her own photographer.
The release of Get Cooking is also being paired with a multimedia website loaded with both cooking and kitchen lessons aimed at providing instructions for new cooks on everything from “knife sharpening to tofu grilling.”
Chef
A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...
, cookbook
Cookbook
A cookbook is a kitchen reference that typically contains a collection of recipes. Modern versions may also include colorful illustrations and advice on purchasing quality ingredients or making substitutions...
author and artist. She is best known for her vegetarian cookbook, the Moosewood Cookbook
Moosewood Cookbook
The Moosewood Cookbook is a recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, New York. The original edition, published in 1978 by the then-fledgeling Ten Speed Press in California, was hand-lettered and imaginitively illustrated by Katzen and...
(1977), inspired by the Moosewood Restaurant
Moosewood Restaurant
Moosewood Restaurant is a restaurant that was founded by Mollie Katzen and others in 1973 in downtown Ithaca, New York. Moosewood is located on the first floor of the Dewitt Mall building, which is a converted high school....
collective she helped create near Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and Ithaca College
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...
. She has authored and illustrated several other best-selling vegetarian cookbooks, including The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982), Still Life with Menu (1988), and Vegetable Heaven and Sunlight Cafe (1997); three children's cookbooks (Pretend Soup (1994), Honest Pretzels and Salad People (1999) and recently co-authored (with Walter Willett
Walter Willett
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH., is an American physician and nutrition researcher. Currently, Willett is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health...
) Eat, Drink and Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry. She has lectured extensively on nutrition and hosted a cooking program on the Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
.
She attended the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located in Rochester, New York. The Eastman School is a professional school within the University of Rochester...
and Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, and received her bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
. She is the sister of Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
horn player Daniel Katzen
Daniel Katzen
Daniel Katzen is a French horn teacher and player, and, since September 2008, has been the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Arizona School of Music in Tucson. Prior to that, he was Second Horn in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from April 1979 to August 2008...
.
With over 5 million books in print, Mollie Katzen is listed by The New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time. Named by Health Magazine as one of the five "Women Who Changed the Way We Eat," and personally selected by the Dean as a founding member of the new Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council, Ms. Katzen holds a charter seat at the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable and was an inaugural inductee to new Natural Health Hall of Fame. Largely credited with moving healthful gourmet food from the fringe to the center of American dinner plates, Ms. Katzen has now formed a partnership with Harvard University as both a consultant to Harvard University Dining and the architect of their new, groundbreaking Food Literacy Initiative.
An award-winning illustrator and designer as well as an author and food/nutrition/cultural history scholar, Mollie Katzen is best known as the author of the Moosewood Cookbook
Moosewood Cookbook
The Moosewood Cookbook is a recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, New York. The original edition, published in 1978 by the then-fledgeling Ten Speed Press in California, was hand-lettered and imaginitively illustrated by Katzen and...
, as well as the bestsellers The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Still Life with Menu, Vegetable Heaven (winner of the International Cookbook Revue Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook of the Year and a Top Finalist for the Julia Child Awards)—and the award-winning children's cookbooks, Pretend Soup and Honest Pretzels (named a Notable Book by the American Librarians' Association). Since 1995, Mollie Katzen has also been the host of four highly-rated cooking series seen nationwide on public television. Ms. Katzen's recent work includes a 400-recipe breakfast book, Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café (Hyperion - September 2002), which was chosen by Book Magazine as one of the five best cookbooks of 2002. Her latest publication, "The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without" (Hyperion - October 2007), includes 100 vegetable side dishes that can easily move to the center of the plate if one chooses.
Katzen's latest book, Get Cooking (HarperStudio – Oct 2009), continues her cookbook trend. The latest book is aimed at beginning cookers and contains recipes with the “relative minimum number of ingredients.” For the book, Katzen acted as her own photographer.
The release of Get Cooking is also being paired with a multimedia website loaded with both cooking and kitchen lessons aimed at providing instructions for new cooks on everything from “knife sharpening to tofu grilling.”