Molly Birnbaum

Molly Birnbaum
Born	1982 (age 28–29) Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American

Molly Birnbaum (born 1982) is a writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, ARTnews magazine, the New York Post, USA Today, the Point Reyes Light newspaper, and The Brown Alumni Magazine. She has won the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Art and Culture from Columbia University in 2008. She is was born and raised in Boston, attended Brown University, where she studied the History of Art and Architecture. She then became interested in cooking.^[1] Her first job was as a dish washer working for Tony Maws at his Cambridge, MA restaurant, Craigie Street Bistrot; it is now called Craigie on Main ^{[2] [3]} She was accepted into the Culinary Institute of America ^[4], but did not attend after an automobile accident in August 2005 that occurred while she was jogging in Brookline, MA ^[3]; the accident caused her to lose her ability to smell. She wrote a book about her experience dealing with her loss of smell titled "Season to Taste: How I lost My sense of Smell and Found My Way." She writes the blog "My Madeleine."

References

1. ^ "About Me". Molly Birnbaum. http://www.mollybirnbaum.com/about-me/. Retrieved 2011-07-21. 
2. ^ Tony Maws, Marjorie Maws. "853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 | tel: [phone]". Craigie On Main. http://www.craigieonmain.com/. Retrieved 2011-07-21. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Gordinier, Jeff (June 14, 2011). "Molly Birnbaum, the Cook Who Couldn't Taste". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/dining/molly-birnbaum-the-cook-who-couldnt-taste.html. 
4. ^ "Welcome to the world's premier culinary college in New York-The Culinary Institute of America". Ciachef.edu. http://www.ciachef.edu/. Retrieved 2011-07-21. 

External links

• Molly Birnbaum Web Page
• Interview on June 22, 2011 on WNYC's Leonard Lopate's Show
• "Season to Taste: How I lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way"
• Mollys Madeleine Blog
• NY Times article about Ms. Birnbaum on June 15, 2011
• Twitter Page.
• Interview on American Public Media on April 29, 2008
• Profile on Boston Herald blog Fork Lift on June 22, 2011

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Name	Birnbaum, Molly
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Short description	American writer
Date of birth	1982
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
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