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 was born and raised in
Boston, attended
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, where she studied the History of Art and Architecture. She then became interested in cooking. 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''.
She was accepted into
the Culinary Institute of America,
but did not attend after an automobile accident in August 2005 that occurred while she was jogging in
Brookline, MA;
[ 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
External links
*
Mollys Madeleine Blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Birnbaum, Molly
1982 births
Living people
Writers from Boston
American women writers
Brown University alumni
21st-century American women