Molly O’Neill is the author of three cookbooks, including the best-selling New York Cookbook, A Well-Seasoned Appetite, and The Pleasure of Your Company. She hosted the PBS series Great Food and was, for ten years, a reporter with The New York Times and the food columnist for its Sunday magazine.
O’Neill won the Julia Child/IACP Award for cookbooks and was awarded three James Beard citations for books, journalism, and television, as well as the society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is the editor of the Library of America’s anthology American Food Writing.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, O’Neill graduated from Denison University and attended La Varenne in Paris. Mostly True, her memoir of growing up in a Major League Baseball family was published by Scribner in May 2007, and critics have called it “a magical tale of growing up in the middle of the American dream.” Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Reader’s Digest and Life.
She spent ten years traveling around America gathering oral histories and recipes from potlucks, church suppers, fishermen, bakers, farmers, artists, truck drivers, hairdressers, gourmet societies, and even a Nobel Prize winner to create One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking.
Molly also teaches food writing courses virtually at Cook ‘n Scribble.
