Sara Moulton facts for kids

Sara Moulton was born on February 19, 1952. She is a famous American cookbook author and a well-known television personality. Many people, like Kim Severson from The New York Times, see Sara as one of the best and most lasting recipe writers and cooking teachers in the country. She's also a big name in food television and magazines.

Sara Moulton was the main food editor for Good Morning America, a popular morning TV show on the ABC network. She worked there from 1997 to 2012. Before that, she was the chef for the executive dining room at Gourmet magazine for 20 years. This job ended when the magazine stopped publishing in 2009.

From 1996 to 2005, Sara hosted several shows on the Food Network. These included Cooking Live, Cooking Live Primetime, and Sara's Secrets. She became one of the first big stars on this cable and satellite channel. Sara has been working in television and cooking for almost 40 years!

She has also written several cookbooks and made cooking videos. Some of her popular books are Sara Moulton Cooks at Home (2002), Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals (2005), and Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners (2010).

In 1982, Sara Moulton helped start the New York Women's Culinary Alliance. This group helps women in the food world.

Since 2008, Sara has hosted Sara's Weeknight Meals, a cooking show shown on American Public Television. She also wrote a weekly cooking column for the Associated Press from 2012 to 2018.

In 2016, Sara joined Christopher Kimball's "Milk Street Radio." This is a weekly show on National Public Radio, and Sara is one of the cohosts.

Early Life and Learning

Sara Moulton was born in New York City. She went to The Brearley School there.

When she was a child, Sara loved food. But she didn't think about making it her job until after she finished college. She studied the history of ideas at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In 1975, Sara decided to go to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. This is a very famous cooking school. She graduated in 1977 with top honors and even won a scholarship!

Her Cooking Career

After cooking school, Sara started working in restaurants right away. She worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in New York City. She took a short break in 1979 to learn from a Master Chef named Maurice Cazalis in France. From 1981 to 1983, she was a chef tournant (a chef who works in different parts of the kitchen) at a fancy restaurant called La Tulipe in New York City.

Sara decided to leave restaurant work to start a family. She then focused on creating and testing new recipes. She also taught cooking classes at Peter Kump's New York Cooking School (now called the Institute of Culinary Education). She loved teaching others how to cook!

In 1984, she got a job in the test kitchen at Gourmet magazine. A test kitchen is where chefs try out and perfect recipes. Four years later, she became the chef for the magazine's special dining room.

TV Shows

Sara's TV career started in 1979. She worked behind the scenes on Julia Child & More Company, a cooking show on PBS. She became good friends with Julia Child, a very famous chef. This friendship eventually led to Sara's job at Good Morning America. She started working behind the scenes there, but by 1997, she was on camera!

Around that time, she also began hosting Cooking Live on the Food Network. This show ran for six years and had over 1,200 hour-long episodes! It ended in 2002. The very next day, her new show, Sara's Secrets, began and ran until 2007. The New Yorker magazine said Sara was one of the few chefs smart enough to answer live cooking questions from viewers. Cooking Live was even nominated for a James Beard Award for Best National Television Cooking Show in 1999 and 2000.

The show "Sara's Weeknight Meals" is still on! Its thirteenth season started in October 2024. This show has also been nominated for James Beard Awards. Sara herself has been nominated three times as an Outstanding Personality/Host for her work on TV.

Cookbooks and Articles

Sara's first cookbook, Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, came out in 2002. She wrote it to help people cook tasty and healthy food at home instead of eating fast food. She wanted families and friends to enjoy meals together. One reviewer said her book mixed classic French cooking with easy American ideas.

Her second cookbook, Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals, was published in 2005. People magazine said Sara was great at making quick, easy, and delicious meals.

In 2010, her third cookbook, Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners, was released. A reviewer wrote that it was a very helpful cookbook for getting great food on the table quickly and easily.

Sara's fourth cookbook, Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better, came out in 2016. Someone from The Huffington Post called it "extremely useful" for home cooks, like a textbook with amazing food photos.

Sara also wrote cooking columns for newspapers and magazines. From 2012 to 2018, she wrote "The Healthy Plate" and then "KitchenWise" for the Associated Press. She also wrote "Sunday Supper" for The Washington Post Magazine and "Maize Graze" for the University of Michigan's Alumnus Magazine.

Awards and Honors

Sara Moulton has received many awards for her work:

• 2001: Named Chef of the Year by Culinary Institute of America.
• 2002: Joined the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. This is a big honor for people in the food world.
• 2011: Her cookbook Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners won an award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals in the Children, Youth and Family category.
• 2016: Received the Beacon Award at a big restaurant and food show in New York.
• 2018: Received a Leadership Award from Culinary Institute of America.

Her Family Life

Sara Moulton is married to Bill Adler, who is a music journalist. They have two children. Sara and her family live in New York City.

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