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Sara Moulton (born February 19, 1952) is an American
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author and television personality. In an article for ''
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'', Kim Severson described Moulton as "one of the nation’s most enduring recipe writers and cooking teachers...and a dean of food television and magazines". Moulton was the on-air food editor for ''
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'', a morning news-and-talk show broadcast on the
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television network, from 1997 through 2012. She was the chef of the executive dining room at ''
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'' for 20 years, a stint that ended when the magazine ceased publication in 2009. Between 1996 and 2005, Moulton hosted '' Cooking Live'' (1997–2002), ''Cooking Live Primetime'' (1999), and ''Sara's Secrets'' (2002–2005) on the
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, becoming one of the original stars of that cable-and- satellite-television channel during its first decade. Her career in television and cooking has spanned nearly 40 years. Moulton is the author of several cookbooks and videos, notably ''Sara Moulton Cooks at Home'' (2002), ''Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals'' (2005), and ''Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners'' (2010). In 1982, Moulton co-founded the New York Women's Culinary Alliance. Since 2008, Moulton has been the host of ''Sara's Weeknight Meals'', a cooking show distributed by
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. From August 2012 through October 2018, Moulton was the author of a weekly cooking column for the
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. In October 2016, Moulton joined
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's "Milk Street Radio," a weekly show broadcast by
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, as a cohost.


Early life and education

Moulton was born in New York City, and attended
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in New York City. The idea of channeling her childhood passion for food into a career did not occur to Moulton until after she graduated from the
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in
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, with a major in the
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. Moulton enrolled at the
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in
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, in 1975 and graduated with highest honors in 1977, winning a scholarship from
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in the process.


Career

Her first restaurant job was as an intern under Chef
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at the
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Restaurant in Cambridge, MA during the summer of 1976. After graduating from the CIA in the spring of 1977, Moulton returned to the Harvest as its sous chef, a job she held for nine months. In 1979, at the suggestion of
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, Moulton undertook a postgraduate apprenticeship with Master Chef Maurice Cazalis of the Henri IV Restaurant in Chartres, France. From 1979 till 1981, she was the chef at Cybele's, a Boston restaurant. After moving to New York in 1981, Moulton was hired as the '' chef tournant'' at La Tulipe, a three-star restaurant. In the interest of starting a family, she left restaurant work and began devoting herself instead to recipe testing and development. Moulton worked for two years as an instructor at
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's New York Cooking School (now known as the
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), where she discovered her love of teaching. In 1984, she took a job in the
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at ''Gourmet''. Four years later she became chef of the magazine's executive dining room.


Television

In 1979, Moulton's television career began when she was hired to work behind the scenes on '' Julia Child & More Company,'' a cooking program on PBS. Her friendship with Ms. Child led eventually to Moulton's job at ''Good Morning America'', where what started as another behind-the-scenes position ripened in 1997 into on-camera work. By then, she had begun hosting the Food Network's ''Cooking Live''. Six years and over 1,200 hour-long shows later, that show ended on March 31, 2002. ''Sara's Secrets,'' which began the next day, ran until 2007. “Sara Moulton is a chef, and one of the few people knowledgeable enough to field live phone-in queries, the basis of her show," wrote
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's
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. "Cooking Live" was nominated as the James Beard Awards' Best National Television Cooking Show in 1999 and 2000. The thirteenth season of "Sara's Weeknight Meals" began airing on
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in October 2024. The show was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2013 and 2015, while Moulton herself has been nominated three times as Outstanding Personality/Host, most recently in 2014.


Cookbooks and cooking columns

Her first cookbook, ''Sara Moulton Cooks at Home,'' was published by
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in October 2002, and was meant to counter America's disastrous love affair with fast food by encouraging everyone to cook delicious and healthy food at home and to dine with family and friends. "While rooted in classic French technique, the book also accommodates the American hunger for convenience, novelty and freshness," wrote Mike Dunne for ''
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''. Moulton's second cookbook, ''Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals'', was published by
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in October 2005. It was reviewed by Michelle Green in ''
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'' magazine, who wrote: "Sara has a gift for creating quick, accessible fine cuisine. Why suffer to make a gorgeous meal?" Her third cookbook, ''Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners'', was published by
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in April 2010. Blogging for ''StoveTop Readings'' in November 2010, Greg Mowery wrote: "If there is a less pretentious, more accessible, and creative cookbook that gets great food on the table in good time with the least amount of fuss, I haven't seen it this year….This new book belongs in every family kitchen." Moulton's fourth cookbook, ''Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better,'' was published by
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in March 2016. Diana K. Rice, in
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, described it as "extremely useful to the home cook. ookslike a textbook, albeit...with fabulous food photos and enticing recipes." In August 2012 Moulton began writing a weekly column entitled "The Healthy Plate" for the
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. In January 2015, she replaced it with a new column called "KitchenWise," which ran through October 2018. Between November 2016 and September 2018, Moulton contributed a monthly column called "Sunday Supper" to
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. From January 2018 through June 2021, Moulton contributed a quarterly column entitled "Maize Graze" to the University of Michigan's Alumnus Magazine.


Awards

* 2001 Culinary Institute of America's Chef of the Year. * 2002 inducted into the
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's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. * 2011 ''Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners'' was an
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Cookbook Awards Winner in the category of Children, Youth and Family. *The International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York & Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum 2016 Beacon Award. * 2018
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Leadership Award.


Personal life

Moulton's husband is
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, an American music journalist and critic. They have two children. Moulton and her family live in New York City, New York.


Bibliography

*Moulton, Sara; Anderson, Jean (2000). ''The Good Morning America Cut the Calories Cookbook120 Delicious Low-Fat, Low-Calorie Recipes from Our Viewers''. Hyperion Books (New York City). . *Moulton, Sara; Pierce, Charles (2002). ''Sara Moulton Cooks at Home''.
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(New York City). . *Moulton, Sara; Hayes, Joanne Lamb (2005). ''Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals''.
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(New York City). . *Moulton, Sara (2010). ''Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners''.
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(New York City). . *Moulton, Sara (2016). ''Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better''.
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. .


Videography

*Moulton, Sara; Food and Beverage Institute (
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);
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(1999?). ''Great Chefs Series with Sara Moulton''. Food and Beverage Institute (
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). (VHS format). *Moulton, Sara; Hallquist, Gary; Prime Time Video Productions;
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(2000). ''Chef Sara Moulton''. Prime Time Video Productions (
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). (VHS format). *Moulton, Sara; Flay, Bobby; Deen, Paula H.; Ray, Rachael;
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. (2003). ''Cooking from the Grill''.
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(New York City). (DVD format). *Moulton, Sara;
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(2004). ''Sara's Secrets with Sara MoultonCelebrating the Holidays''.
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(New York City). (DVD format). *Moulton, Sara;
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(2004). ''Sara's Secrets with Sara MoultonEffortless Entertaining''
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(New York City). (DVD format). *Moulton, Sara;
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(2006). ''Sara's Secrets with Sara MoultonCelebrating the Holidays''.
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(New York City). (DVD format). (reissue, with additional material, of 2004 release) *Garten, Ina; Moulton, Sara; Deen, Paula H.;
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(2006). ''Holiday Best, 2006''.
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(New York City). (DVD format).


See also

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