

Named by Health Magazine as one of the five "Women Who Changed the Way We Eat," and personally selected by the Dean as a founding member of the new Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council, Ms. With over 5 million books in print, Mollie Katzen is listed by The New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time. She is the sister of Boston Symphony Orchestra horn player Daniel Katzen. She attended the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University, and received her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has lectured extensively on nutrition and hosted a cooking program on the Public Broadcasting Service. She has authored and illustrated several other best-selling vegetarian cookbooks, including The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (1982), Still Life with Menu (1988), and Vegetable Heaven and Sunlight Cafe (1997) three children's cookbooks ( Pretend Soup (1994), Honest Pretzels and Salad People (1999) and recently co-authored (with Walter Willett) Eat, Drink and Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry.

She is best known for her vegetarian cookbook, the Moosewood Cookbook (1977), inspired by the Moosewood Restaurant collective she helped create near Cornell University and Ithaca College. Pizza, after all, does not come "from a telephone.Mollie Katzen (born 1950 in Rochester, New York, U.S.) is an American chef, cookbook author and artist. Just consider all that can be explored in the kitchen: counting, reading readiness, science awareness, self-confidence, patience, and, importantly, food literacy. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called "the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks" by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food.
