Molly Watson is a writer and recipe developer, teacher and speaker. She writes The Dinner Files and is the guide to Local Foods for About.com. Her work has appeared in numerous other places, including Sunset magazine (where she was the staff food writer from 2005 to 2008), The New York Times, Edible San Francisco, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her critically acclaimed essay “Scrambled Eggs” was included in the San Francisco Chronicle best-seller The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image, and Other Hazards of Being Female.

Molly also teaches food writing through Mediabistro and delivers an annual waiting-list-popular talk about etiquette and dining in professional situations to seniors at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She has appeared on many local T.V. and radio shows, including KFOG's Morning Show in San Francisco, “The Food Guy and Marcy” in Santa Rosa, CA, and "Philosophy Talk" on KALW.

Before becoming a food writer Molly earned a Ph.D. in Modern European History at Stanford University by reading scandalous novels, Parisian tabloids, and police records and writing about French whores at the turn-of-the-last-century. While she escaped from academia, she can’t seem to shake her love of specific times and places or curb her desire to see how different (and yet the same!) they all are from one another. She happily now satisfies her curiosity through food and wine instead of old books and dusty archives.

Molly lives in San Francisco (where winters feel colder than those of her native Minnesota, no matter what the locals say) with her dashing husband and omnivorous son.

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