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Molly Watson is dynamic, informative, and often hilarious whether she is in front of a camera, on a stage, or behind a microphone.

Contact Molly about speaking at your event or serving on a tasting panel at watson (dot) molly (at) gmail (dot) com.

Select speaking engagements:
• Eat Real Lit Fest, August 2010
• Litcrawl 2009 at 18 Reasons in San Francisco with a panel of readers from Edible San Franicisco
• "The Cheese Stands Alone: An Autobiographical History of Pizza" delivered at The Lab at Belmar as part of Taste Test 2009, March 2009
• "How to Taste Like a Professional" given to The Bakers Dozen, San Francisco, February 2009
• On-stage interview with Raj Patel (author of Stuffed & Starved) as part of Litquake, San Francisco, October 2008
• An annual “etiquette lecture” at Reed College in Portland, Oregon to prepare students for dining with grown-ups in the real world of job interviews and other professional situations

Select media appearances:
• How to Make Nachos With Molly Watson, Chow.com posted January 2010
• NBC Bay Area's 11 o'clock news, "Gourmet on a Budget," October 2009
• Co-produced and co-hosted I'd Eat That, a radio show about what we eat, where it comes from, and what makes it delicious for KALW 91.7 in San Francisco, November 2008
• KALW's Philosophy Talk, June 2008
• KFOG’s The Morning Show in San Francisco (hear her discuss chocolate with the KFOG morning crew), several appearances 2007 - 2008
• Regular Kitchen Cabinet guest on The Food Guy and Marcy with Guy Fierri and Marcy Smothers, 2007 - 2008
• KALW's West Coast Live, July 2007
• Multiple appearances on KPIX in San Francisco, 2006 - 2008 including this episode on which she fried pork cutlets

Molly is also an experienced food and wine judge. Select tasting panels on which she has participated:
• As a frequent member of Taster's Choice panel for the San Francisco Chronicle she has blind tasted everything from whole wheat tortillas to packaged prosciutto, canned tomatoes to sparkling pomegranate juice
• Taylor Shellfish Co. oyster and wine dating service, 2009 and 2010
• As a food writer at Sunset magazine, she helped find the best boxed chocolates, strawberry jam, mail-order tamales, and smoked salmon in the West
• Tamale Festival, San Jose, California, 2006
• Henry's Soup Contest, 2006