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Sara Moulton is the executive chef at Gourmet magazine. Ask Sara how it all began and she will tell you, "I’ve always liked to eat." This decidedly prosaic reality is what turned Sara in the direction of cooking school after graduating from the University of Michigan with no particular major in 1974. And, indeed, it was at the Culinary Institute of America that she found herself. Sara graduated with highest honors in 1977, and commenced working in restaurants immediately, taking time off only to apply herself to a postgraduate stagaire with a master chef in Chartres, France in 1979.
Sara’s restaurant experience peaked with a stint as sous chef at La Tulipe in New York in the early eighties. Later she worked for a while as an instructor at Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, where she discovered her love of teaching, an interest that would give focus to her subsequent work on television. In 1984, Sara took a job in the test kitchen at Gourmet magazine. Four years later she became the magazine’s executive chef, a position she holds to this day.
Naturally energetic and inclined to juggle more than one job at a time, Sara began working behind the scenes in public television and later as the host of Cooking Live, her own show on The Food Network. After six years and some 1200 shows, Cooking Live ended its run on March 31. Her new show, Sara’s Secrets, began the next day.
Sara’s two cookbooks, Sara Moulton Cooks at Home and Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals, both embody her mission as author and television host: 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.
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