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Marian Morash is an American cookbook author, chef, restaurateur and television presenter.

Education

Morash graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she studied acting, in 1959.[1][2]

Career

Morash first began cooking when her husband, Russell Morash, was producing The French Chef and would bring home partially-cooked dishes used as swap-outs on the show with instructions from Julia Child, the show's host, on how to finish the dishes.[1]

In 1975 Morash opened the Straight Wharf restaurant in Nantucket, Massachusetts.[3][1]

In 1975 Morash helped launch WGBH gardening show Crocket's Victory Garden, hosted by James Underwood Crockett; she served as the show's on-air chef, demonstrating how to use the vegetables that Crockett grew.[1][4] The show was produced by her husband.[3] After Crockett's death in 1979, Morash took over hosting and the show was retitled The Victory Garden and eventually Victory Garden's Edible Feast; the show ended in 2015.[3][1]

Morash's The Victory Garden Cookbook was published in 1982 by Knopf.[3] The book became a bestseller.[5] Publishers Weekly, writing in their review of her subsequent The Victory Garden Fish and Vegetable Cookbook, said the first book had "strong success."[6] UPI called it "a vegetable encyclopedia for cooks who garden and gardeners who cook".[2]

Recognition

In 1984 Morash won a James Beard Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America.[7]

Personal life

Morash and her husband have a daughter.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Thurston, Andrew (2012-08-12). "Two PBS Pioneers Look Back | BU Today". Boston University. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  2. ^ a b Healion, James V. (7 September 1982). "The menu at the Straight Wharf Restaurant on Nantucket..." United Press International.
  3. ^ a b c d "Marian Morash: The Cook Who Inspired Us to Eat Our Vegetables!". The Henry Ford Museum. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  4. ^ Druckman, Charlotte (2017-10-19). "These three cookbooks went viral before the Internet existed - and they still hold up today". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  5. ^ Sietsema, Tom (24 May 1987). "Marian Morash: Her Vegetable Vignettes". The Washington Post.
  6. ^ "The Victory Garden Fish and Vegetable Cookbook". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  7. ^ "Marian Morash". James Beard Foundation. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  8. ^ "Miss Morash Wed To Adam Cohen". The New York Times. 1990-09-23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
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