Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm

Molly on the Range Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm

Star of Food Network's Girl Meets Farm, and victor of the Judges' Choice IACP Cookbook Award, Molly Yeh investigates home and family and commends her Jewish and Chinese legacy and her current Midwestern homestead life in this cookbook including in excess of 120 plans.

In 2013, food blogger and traditional performer Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a ranch on the North Dakota-Minnesota fringe, where her life partner was a fifth-age Norwegian-American sugar beet rancher. Like her honor winning online journal My Name is Yeh, Molly on the Range annals her life through photographs, new plans, and humorous stories from life in the city and on the ranch.

Molly's story starts in suburbia of Chicago during the 90s, when things like Lunchables and Dunkaroos were the objects of her fondness; proceeds into her New York years, when Sunday mornings implied aftereffects and bagels; and finishes in her darling new home, where she's right now attempting to ace the specialty of the hotdish. Observing Molly's Jewish/Chinese foundation with plans for Asian Scotch Eggs and Scallion Pancake Challah Bread and her new old neighborhood Scandinavian plans for Cardamom Vanilla Cake and Marzipan Mandel Bread, Molly on the Range will amuse everybody, from long-term perusers to those finding her brilliant composition and plans just because. Molly Yeh would now be able to be seen featuring in Girl Meets Farm on Food Network, where she investigates her Jewish and Chinese legacy and offers plans created on her Midwest ranch.

About the Author
Molly Yeh is a baker, blogger, writer, and farmer living in East Grand Forks, North Dakota. She is the voice behind the wildly popular blog, My Name is Yeh, which has been the recipient of multiple awards, including two Saveur 2015 blog awards: Editor's Choice and Blog of the Year. Molly is also the star of Girl Meets Farm on Food Network, where she cooks recipes inspired by her Jewish and Chinese heritage and her life on a Midwestern sugar beet farm. Molly graduated from Juilliard and plays percussion in symphonies and orchestras around the world. She lives in North Dakota with her husband and their many chickens.

This is absolutely my favorite cookbook I have ever purchased or seen, I've bought copies for all my friends. I've also made almost everything inside it, some multiple times, and people always ask for the recipes. Her writing style is wonderful and I love reading about her life, I'm so sad I couldn't go to her book signing.-Amy Jameison

Over the years, I've stopped buying cookbooks because I've never really found one aside from my Moosewood cookbooks that seem to have a recipe on almost every page that I want to make. However, once I found Molly's blog I found myself making recipes from it two or three times a week. I finally bought the cookbook and everything about it is perfect. I want to make every single thing inside it and the joyful and fun personality of Molly is on every page. I was delighted to see how thick it was (it's almost 300 pages long) and how much of her writing appears. The book itself is very high quality and the pages are not the BPA-filled glossy ones--they're top notch matte paper that still are able to feel silky smooth and have high quality images. Some matte pages lose the luster of the photos printed on them, but her paper choice for this book was perfect. (Please forgive the adulation over paper--I'm a photographer and paper quality is something about which I feel very strongly). This book is aces across the board.-treehugger

I am an unrestrained consumer of cookbooks. I like ones with great pictures (food porn!!! Yay!!!!) and it's even better when there are stories about the author's life and why they live where they do and cook the way they do. Molly Yeh's Molly on the Range does all that and more. Her photos are seductive, her recipes are not too easy and not too hard. Many of them are just right, and I look forward to working my way through the cookbook, without gaining 25 pounds, preferably. I stumbled onto her blog last year and while many of the email blogs I subscribe to get deleted without reading (sorry, my bad!) I read and look at the pictures multiple times. I often save the recipes. But really, I prefer actual cookbooks, so I was thrilled when she announced this book was soon to be released. Molly's stories and the names she gives some of her recipes make me want to be Molly's new best friend, but not in, you know, a creepy stalker kind of way. Thanks Molly, for opening a door onto your life and sharing your stories and recipes with the rest of us. -anne belov