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Molly Baz

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Molly Baz
Born
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationSkidmore College
💼 Occupation
Chef and food writer
Notable workCook This Book
🌐 Websitemollybaz.com

Molly Baz (née Lundquist-Baz) is an American chef and food writer. She was a senior food editor at Bon Appétit magazine and appeared frequently on the magazine's YouTube channel before leaving in 2021. Baz published the cookbook Cook This Book in April 2021, which became a New York Times Best Seller.[1]

Early life and education

Molly Lundquist-Baz is from Rhinebeck, New York.[2] She was educated at Poughkeepsie Day School where she graduated in 2006.[3] She then studied art history at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, graduating in 2010.[4][5][6] She discovered her love of cooking while studying abroad in Florence, Italy.[4] In her senior year at Skidmore, she and classmate Mikaela Bloomberg created P.D.E. (Private Dining Experience), a biweekly dinner prepared by the duo with local ingredients and open to the local Saratoga Springs community for free.[2]

Career

Early career (20??–2014)

Wanting to become a chef without attending culinary school, Baz began working as a line cook in restaurants in Boston and New York City, including Allswell and Glasserie, after graduation.[7][4] She took a break between jobs to go on a road trip in the southern United States with her father, photographer Doug Baz, to sample barbecue and learn from barbecue pitmasters.[8][9][10] During her time in New York, she co-owned a catering company named Rustic Supper.[7]

Time at Bon Appétit (2015–2020)

She worked as a food stylist for Epicurious starting in 2015 before moving to Bon Appétit, where she later became Senior Associate Food Editor in 2018.[4] Baz first appeared on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel in 2017.[citation needed] She continued to host videos teaching home cooks how to cook her recipes from the magazine in From the Test Kitchen.[4] With musicians Cupcakke and Ella Mai and Bon Appetit colleague Andy Baraghani, she held cooking demonstrations at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco in 2019.[11][12]

In June 2020, Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigned after a photo of him in brownface garnered criticism. The resignation also came as employees, including assistant food editor Sohla El-Waylly, publicly accused the magazine and its parent company Condé Nast of discriminating against employees of color.[13] After El-Waylly, Priya Krishna, and Rick Martinez, all people of color, announced their departure from the magazine's video content in August, Baz wrote on Instagram that she would no longer appear in videos for the magazine.[14][13][15][16]

After Bon Appetit (2020–present)

In November 2020, Baz started a food media subscription service on Patreon named Recipe Club through which she offered weekly recipes and other content. Recipe Club had gained "several thousand subscribers" by December 2020, after one month of business, according to Business Insider. Baz explained that she chose a subscription business model for Recipe Club so she could keep developing recipes and prevent herself from "going dark" until publishing her cookbook in early 2021.[17][18][19] In December, Baz launched a collaborative Instagram Live series with Bon Appétit colleague Carla Lalli Music titled You Got Snack'd.[18][20]

Baz published her first cookbook, titled Cook This Book, on April 20, 2021, through the Clarkson Potter imprint.[14] The book was critically and commercially successful, becoming a New York Times Best Seller.[1] NPR, Food52 and Taste of Home named the book as one of the best cookbooks of 2021.[21] The Mercury News wrote that Baz "might be the Abbie Hoffman of the culinary world" for a title that "smacks" of Hoffman's Steal This Book.[22]

In 2022, it was announced that Baz would appear as a guest judge on the Discovery+ streaming series The Julia Child Challenge, created by the Food Network.[23][24]

Personal life

Baz lives with her husband Ben Willet in East Los Angeles, California, having moved there from New York City in 2020.[25]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Puckett, Susan (July 7, 2021). "Cookbook review: A crash course in creative cooking". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonanno, Felicia (February 8, 2010). "Skidmore students serve up a dining experience in their own living room". The Saratogian. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Haavie, Erikah (June 8, 2006). "Record 32 get diplomas at Poughkeepsie Day". Poughkeepsie Journal. p. 1B. Retrieved September 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Jacobson, Alex. "Molly Baz Makes Beans Craveable". Great Jones. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ "All smiles on graduation day". Poughkeepsie Journal. June 8, 2006. p. 1A. Retrieved September 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "On the Record". Poughkeepsie Journal. June 28, 2010. p. 9. Retrieved September 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Premack, Rachel (October 26, 2020). "10 Bon Appétit Test Kitchen stars have left video amid a reckoning over how the company treats employees of color — here's the full list". Business Insider. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  8. ↑ "4,258 Miles Of Meat: Chef, Dad On A Quest For BBQ". NPR. January 18, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ Grimes, Andrea (March 7, 2012). "Are These The Five Best Barbecue Joints In Texas?". Eater Austin. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Adventures in BBQ". tumblr.com. Archived from the original on July 19, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ Hughes, Hilary (August 12, 2019). "Bon Appetit's Molly Baz & Andy Baraghani Dish on Cooking With CupcakKe & Ella Mai at Outside Lands". Billboard. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  12. ↑ Mendoza, Mariecar (August 11, 2019). "CupcakKe brings shock and awe to Outside Lands". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Severson, Kim (June 8, 2020). "Bon Appétit Editor Adam Rapoport Resigns". The New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Brehaut, Laura (October 23, 2021). "Cooking Lessons From the Lines of Fire". National Post. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  15. ↑ Harris, Margot; Haasch, Palmer; Greenspan, Rachel E. "A new podcast is exploring the reckoning that happened at Bon Appétit. Here's how the publication ended up in hot water". Insider. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  16. ↑ Crowley, Chris (August 12, 2020). "Six Bon Appétit Stars Have Now Exited the Test Kitchen". The Cut. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  17. ↑ Stenberg, Mark (December 8, 2020). "A former Bon Appétit food editor's new subscription-based business is a blueprint for anyone wanting freedom, creative control, and thousands of subscribers in just a month". Business Insider. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Stenberg, Mark (January 6, 2021). "How former Bon Appétit star Molly Baz manages a hectic day running her business, including a new Patreon that accrued thousands of subscribers in its first month". Business Insider. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  19. ↑ Makalintal, Bettina (March 9, 2021). "Why Your Favorite Cooking Stars Are Launching Paid Subscriptions". Vice. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  20. ↑ Baz, Molly; Music, Carla Lalli (February 5, 2021). "Up your snack game with shrimp cocktail and charred broccoli". TODAY.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  21. ↑ Lee, Justine (December 6, 2021). "28 Best Cookbooks of 2021, According to Home Cooks & Pro Chefs". Food52. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  22. ↑ Valdespino, Anne (May 11, 2021). "Why Molly Baz just might be the Abbie Hoffman of the culinary world". The Mercury News. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  23. ↑ Dickie, George (June 12, 2022). "Cook and baking gets competitive in streaming series on Netflix, discovery+". Sioux City Journal. p. H10. Retrieved September 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ↑ Maas, Jennifer (March 10, 2022). "How 'The Julia Child Challenge' Recreated the Food Icon and Her Kitchen". Variety. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  25. ↑ Vadnal, Julie (September 15, 2022). "Molly Baz's Home Serves Up Good Meals, Epic Marble, and That Sweet California Lifestyle". Domino. Retrieved September 26, 2022.



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