Mollie Katzen

Mollie Katzen
Born	(1950-10-13) October 13, 1950 (age 74) Rochester, New York
Website	molliekatzen.com

Mollie Katzen (born October 13, 1950, in Rochester, New York, U.S.) is an American cookbook author and artist, best known for the vegetarian cookbook published by Ten Speed Press, The Moosewood Cookbook (1977), a revised version of the 1974 self-published cookbook by members of the Moosewood Restaurant. Although she is not a strict vegetarian, ^[1] Katzen has published a number of additional vegetarian cookbooks such as The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982).

Early life

Katzen was raised in Rochester, New York in a Jewish family. She has attributed her interest in vegetarian cuisine to her kashrut-observant upbringing. ^[2] Throughout grade school and high school, she attended the Eastman School of Music, where she studied oboe and piano, resulting in an Eastman Preparatory School Diploma. In 1968, ^[3] Katzen entered ^[4] Cornell University and later received her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. ^[5] She is the sister of Daniel Katzen, former Boston Symphony Orchestra horn player.

Cooking

In 1969, while at Cornell University, Katzen cooked at the Ithaca Seed Company, a macrobiotic café. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Katzen studied fine art at Cornell University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Painting. One day, on her way to school, she heard a radio ad for rock-lawyer Rubin Glickman's ^[10] Shandygaff restaurant ^{[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]} Katzen took a bus from the art studio and asked to be hired. She ended up cooking and developing recipes there for two years, greatly influenced by the developing Farm-to-table ethos of the new California cuisine. ^[17] Katzen returned to Ithaca in 1972 to help her brother Josh and his friends build a new restaurant, which was named Moosewood Restaurant, after a local striped maple tree. ^{[18] [19] [20] [17]} She remained there until 1978. ^{[21] [22] [17] [23]}

Cookbooks

The Moosewood Cookbook became a highly influential vegetarian cookbook, ^[24] with four editions (1977, 1992, 2000, 2014). ^[25] In 2007 the Moosewood Cookbook won the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame Award. ^[26] In 2017, her papers were collected by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. ^[27]

"Mollie Katzen's Cooking Show" ran on PBS from 1995 to 2000. ^[22]

In 2013, Katzen published her last cookbook, The Heart of the Plate, which she considers her best work. ^[28]

Personal life

From 1983 to 2022, Katzen lived in Kensington, CA. She has since returned to the East Coast. ^{[29] [30]}

Works

• —— (1977). The Moosewood Cookbook . ISBN   978-0913668689.
• —— (1982). The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. ISBN   978-0898150797. ^[31]
• —— (1988). Still Life with Menu. ISBN   978-0898152562.
• —— (1994). Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes. ISBN   978-1883672065.
• —— (1997). Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven . ISBN   0786862688.
• —— (2002). Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe. ISBN   978-0786862696.
• —— (2004). Honest Pretzels: And 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Kids. ISBN   978-1883672881.
• —— (2005). Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up. ISBN   978-1582461410.
• ——; Walter Willett (2006). Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less. ISBN   978-1401302498.
• —— (2007). The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without. ISBN   978-1401322328.
• —— (2007). Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Soups. ISBN   978-1580088770.
• —— (2008). Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Salads. ISBN   978-1580088787.
• —— (2009). Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Desserts. ISBN   978-1580088794.
• —— (2009). Get Cooking. ISBN   978-0061732430.
• —— (2013). The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation. ISBN   978-0547571591.

References

1. Maiser, Jennifer (2008-01-20). "Grace Cathedral, The Forum Podcasts". KQED . Retrieved 2025-07-06.
2. "Moosewood Cookbook legend Mollie Katzen dishes on her Jewish roots". JTA. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
3. Witchel, Alex (9 October 2002). "Breakfast as the New Cure-All". The New York Times . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
4. Witchel, Alex. "PRAISING PROTEIN: 'MOOSEWOOD' AUTHOR EMPHASIZES BREAKFAST, HEALTHY COOKING". Greensboro News and Record . New York Times . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
5. "History". San Francisco Art Institute . Retrieved 31 July 2022. 1977 Alumna Mollie Katzen illustrates and publishes the vegetarian Moosewood Cookbook.
6. Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (9 April 2020). History of the Natural and Organic Foods Movement (1942-2020): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook. Soyinfo Center. p. 732. ISBN   978-1-948436-15-1.
7. Haine, Peggy. "Wild Women of Ithaca". Rotary Club of Ithaca, NY USA - District 7170. Archived from the original on 2020-09-01. Retrieved 1 August 2022. April 15
8. Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2012). History of Soy Sauce (160 CE To 2012). Soyinfo Center. p. 1375. ISBN   978-1-928914-44-0 . Retrieved 1 August 2022.
9. "The Cornell Daily Sun". The Cornell Daily Sun. 86 (126). 24 April 1970. Retrieved 1 August 2022. Steve Tobin '67. co-owner of the Ithaca Seed Co.. popped out of a chair and ... stock and trade of the Seed Co., Ithaca's specialist in macrobiotic food.
10. Kauffman, Jonathan (2018-01-19). "How the Bay Area's counterculture helped sprout hippie food" . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
11. "San Francisco Ephemera Collection". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
12. "Shandygaff Health Food Restaurant". Design Library Image Collection. North Carolina State University . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
13. Roalf, Peggy (September 30, 2021). "Baseline Shift: Untold Stories". Dart: Design Arts Daily. American Illustration - American Photography. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
14. "AUCTION - S.F. Restaurant Promo Poster". Rock Posters. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
15. Librarians (28 October 2019). "The Painted Over City - Die bemalte Stadt". Art, Music and Recreation Center. San Francisco Public Library . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
16. Goldstein, Joyce Esersky (2013). Inside the California food revolution : thirty years that changed our culinary consciousness. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   9780520956704. Series: California studies in food and culture 44
17. Bazelon, Emily (17 June 1997). "Under the Spell of Silken Tofu". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
18. Miltner, Karen. "Mollie Katzen creates vegetarian meals for busy cooks". Democrat and Chronicle . Rochester, New York . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
19. "A collective feast". (585) magazine. 29 December 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
20. Levitt, Aimee (5 August 2020). "Classic Cookbooks: The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen". The Takeout. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
21. Dwass, Emily (14 June 2013). "Cookbook Author Mollie Katzen Begins a New Chapter". LA Weekly . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
22. Kaufman, Leslie (27 August 2013). "Mollie Katzen Is Still Cooking". The New York Times . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
23. Bazelon, Emily (April 16, 1998). "Mollie Katzen's very veggie cookbook". Sonoma County Independent . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
24. How 'hippie food' went mainstream
25. Editions of the Moosewood Cookbook
26. "Awards Search 2007". James Beard Foundation. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
27. Smithsonian Institution: Mollie Katzen Papers
28. Daley, Bill (October 9, 2013). "Evolving with cookbook author Mollie Katzen." Chicago Tribune . Retrieved October 13, 2013.
29. "A Peek Into Mollie Katzen's Fairytale Home". Food52. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
30. Wach, Bonnie (April 2010). "Vegetarian with Benefits: Real food pioneers like Mollie Katzen eat their veggies—and their meats". The Monthly . Retrieved 31 July 2022.
31. Anderson, Kelli (1 March 2016). "How 'Broccoli Forest' Happened". STANFORD magazine. Retrieved 31 July 2022.

External links

• Official website