Molly Watson is a food writer, recipe developer, travel writer, humor writer, and once-in-a-blue-moon history writer. She is a contributing editor at Sunset magazine, writer and editor of localfoods.about.com, and the author of thedinnerfiles.com. In short, she writes and she cooks.

Her work has also appeared in The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and her critically-acclaimed humor essay "Scrambled Eggs" was featured in the SF Chronicle best-seller The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image, and Other Hazards of Being Female (Seal Press, 2007).

SELECTED WORK:

“Scrambled Eggs” in The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press, 2007)
Keeping up with the Meyers, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 March 2008
Surf, shave ice and sunsets on Kauai, The New York Times, 4 December 2005

Winter squash, Sunset, October 2008
Northwest berries, Sunset, June 2008
Home-style dim sum, Sunset, April 2008
Fresh-picked flavor, Sunset, March 2008
Cocktails and companions, Sunset, January 2008
Backyard Oktoberfest, Sunset, October 2007
Halloween treat, Sunset, October 2007
Sweet and golden, Sunset, September 2007
Portland cooks, Sunset, February 2007
Dinner at the ranch, Sunset, December 2006
Chef’s table, Sunset, November 2006
Flavor of fall, Sunset, October 2006
Tomato party, Sunset, August 2006
Let’s eat out, Sunset, July 2006
Hamburger heaven, Sunset, July 2006
Peruvian passage, Sunset, June 2006