Marian Morash

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Marian Morash is an American cookbook author, chef, restaurateur and television presenter.

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Education

Morash graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she studied acting, in 1959. [1] [2]

Career

Morash first began cooking when her husband, Russell Morash, was producing The French Chef and would bring home partially-cooked dishes used as swap-outs on the show with instructions from Julia Child, the show's host, on how to finish the dishes. [1]

In 1975 Morash opened the Straight Wharf restaurant in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [3] [1]

In 1975 Morash helped launch WGBH gardening show Crocket's Victory Garden, hosted by James Underwood Crockett; she served as the show's on-air chef, demonstrating how to use the vegetables that Crockett grew. [1] [4] The show was produced by her husband. [3] After Crockett's death in 1979, Morash took over hosting and the show was retitled The Victory Garden and eventually Victory Garden's Edible Feast; the show ended in 2015. [3] [1]

Morash's The Victory Garden Cookbook was published in 1982 by Knopf. [3] The book became a bestseller. [5] Publishers Weekly, writing in their review of her subsequent The Victory Garden Fish and Vegetable Cookbook, said the first book had "strong success." [6] UPI called it "a vegetable encyclopedia for cooks who garden and gardeners who cook". [2]

Recognition

In 1984 Morash won a James Beard Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. [7]

Personal life

Morash and her late husband, Russell Morash, have a daughter. [8]

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