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Don't let cooking get you steamed
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg, VA
Mollie Katzen isn't kidding when she says to just "Get cooking!" The author of the best-selling "Moosewood Cookbook" suggests that novice ... more >


New cookbooks help you get back to the basics
Palm Beach Post, 8/18/2009

Ready, set, go! Author shows beginning cooks the right steps
The Morning Call, 10/28/2009

Food Network Book Review
10/27/2009

Publishers Weekly 10/5/09 Starred Review!
Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen, Mollie Katzen
There's an inherent difficulty in encapsulating basic kitchen knowledge in a single book, but Katzen's latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre. This is likely because she has some experience–Katzen's The Moosewood Cookbook and Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbooks have been unofficial required reading for cooking students for decades, and her latest speaks directly to a newer, more food-savvy generation of just-starting-out cooks. Launched in conjunction with a companion Web site and illustrated by Katzen's own photographs, this newest is divided into basic categories like soups, salads, pastas and desserts. Naturally, given her meatless pedigree, she gives vegetarian options with bright flavors (acorn squash stuffed with fruited basmati pilaf; mango curry) their own chapter. While the recipes cover the traditional home repertoire–spaghetti and meatballs, an excellent and simple roast chicken, apple crisp–Katzen also sneaks in some more intriguing flavors by way of a North African red lentil soup, cherry clafouti and Thai green curry along with explanations of more unusual ingredients like jicama and panko. Encouraging cooks to experiment with additions and flavor combinations, she suggests alternatives in a running "Get Creative" sidebar. Rounding out the training is a short primer on kitchen tools, pantry items and photos that illustrate vegetable chopping techniques. Katzen's enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginner's book that accomplishes its mission. Photos. (Oct.)

From Library Journal, 10/1/09
Katzen's (Moosewood Cookbook; The Enchanted Broccoli Forest) first cookbook for aspiring cooks will have a companion web site, www.get-cooking.com, live this month, offering video cooking lessons. The book itself offers an invaluable list of equipment and advice (you can never have too many cutting boards), plus an illustrated vegetable-chopping guide. The 150 recipes for such common dishes as chicken noodle soup, potato salad, and spaghetti and meatballs are a good starting place for beginners. The recipes note variations, complementary dishes, and vegan dishes. Highly recommended for new cooks. Author tour and library marketing.

Mollie on NPR:
"Making Those Holiday Green Beans Exciting"

Mollie Katzen: A Life in Books
Newsweek, October, 2007

Why Vegetarians Are Eating Meat
Food & Wine, August, 2007

Consumer Reports Weighs in on the New Diets; Identifies Winning STrategies for Losing Weight
ConsumerReports.org, June, 2007

Delicious Minimalism
How vegetarians' heroine Mollie Katzen invents a dish
Harvard Magazine, Sept. - Oct. 2006

There's no starvation on this diet
Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less
by Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY

Salad People And More Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up
review by In Mamas Kitchen, Inc

Press Release: Salad People

Celebrity Chefs Mollie Katzen profile
July, 2006

Back to School: Mollie Katzen's Salad People
Superchef Blog August, 2005

Harvard University Dining Services: Mollie Katzen Connection

CBN: 700 Club Guest Bios

Katzen's Kitchen
-- Joan Tapper for Hadassah Magazine, April, 2004

Mollie Katzen to speak at Los Angeles Unified School District's Nutrition Network Event
September, 2003

"Cooking Light" profile: Mollie Katzen in the Kitchen
The noted bookbook author shares her personal nutrition evolution.
July, 2003

Harvard aims to give students a better read on food
-- The Nation Restaurant News "Onsite"
June 2003

Harvard University Dining Services and Mollie Katzen Begin Partnership
June, 2003

Hyperion Publishes "Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café" (PDF)
September, 2002

Chef Mollie Katzen Grills, Chills and Thrills in Third Season on Public Television
April, 2000

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