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I was recently interviewed by Michele Kayal of the Associated Press for an article honoring the memory of Julia Child on her 100th Birthday. You can read the story on salon.com right here.… more »

I recently had the opportunity to appear on Michael Harlan Turkell’s Heritage Radio Network show, The Food Seen. Michael is a freelance photographer and a photo editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan magazines.  You can hear the whole thing at The Food Seen… Episode 95. more »

On March 20, 2012 Sara’s Kitchen was the subject of Toquemag.com’s Food App Review of the Week. Reviewer Steve Cooper noted, “I’ve reviewed several celebrity food apps in the past . . . and have been generally impressed. So I had some pretty big expectations for Sara’s Kitchen…. Just as her professionalism has been a constant over the years, Moulton’s transition into mobile is as smooth as her moves to celebrity chef and author.” He concludes, “Overall, this app more »

It’s a beautiful art book, published by Rizzoli, entitled Def Jam Recordings:  The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label….  It was co-written by Bill Adler, my husband, the record label’s first publicist, and Dan Charnas. If I were forced to explain what makes my husband, Bill Adler, and I such a good match – we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary in September – I might just say that I’m a chef who loves music and he’s more »

“Sara’s Kitchen,” was in fact shot in the kitchen of my apartment in New York City.  Likewise, the app’s recipes, the best of my three cookbooks, were all prepared and styled by me and shot by my daughter’s good friend Jessica Leibowitz. “Sara’s Kitchen” includes 60 easy-to-prepare recipes (with accompanying photographs) that are ideal for home cooks who want to prepare a meal for the family without breaking the bank or spending hours in the kitchen. Recipes are organized by… more »

The first time I ever made ricotta cheese was in my dining room at Gourmet Magazine. It was based on a family recipe from the magazine’s art director Richard Feretti. And it was amazing. Not only did it taste so much better than the supermarket version (anything homemade tastes better anyway, doesn’t it? or at least we think it does) but it was just  so easy to make. Let me take you through the process. First, if you are able… more »

There is one spot available on my September 29 to October 6 trip to Perigord. In this beautiful setting,  I will be teaching classes, exploring local markets, tasting wine at a chateau, visiting an artisan goat farm and much more — with eight students. Of course there will be many excellent meals both at the house and at restaurants in the neighboring towns. This lovely little week takes place at “La Combe,” a maison de maitre (gentleman’s house) set amid… more »

I don’t know about you but I have always been vaguely suspicious about anything labeled “ground beef” or “hamburger.” I am even more suspicious since I’ve read a few articles about what a meat purveyor is legally allowed to put in to that mix. For awhile, I was recommending to my students that they buy ground meat from just one muscle  – for example: ground round, ground chuck, ground sirloin. Then I read another article that said those packages were… more »

Hope you enjoyed my Valentine’s Day Treats on Good Morning America…. Here’s a link to my Warm Chocolate Cheesecake. more »

I love it when I figure out how to make something that seemed so out of reach, particularly if that something can be made from scratch with good ingredients and no additives. I like being in control. I have three of those kind of discoveries that I would like to share with you in the next few blogs. Let’s start with butter. Homemade Butter… It has happened to all of us. You start beating heavy cream in a mixer to more »

I just announced this year’s Top Ten Cookbooks on Good Morning America.  Hope you had a chance to tune in. You can check out the announcement on GMA’s web site. A copy of the list follows along with some additional cookbooks that are worth a look. GMA’s 2010 Cookbook Roundup One Big Table… Molly O’Neill Simon and Schuster 600 recipes from home cooks, farmers, fishermen, pit masters and chefs. It took Molly 10 years to make. She traveled around more »

Every year in preparation for “Turkey 911,” On Good Morning America I read up on the latest turkey roasting methods and generally try out a few. This year I tried two new things (at least they were new to me): dry brining and cooking a turkey in an oven bag. I tried out dry brining because it seemed so much simpler than wet brining and so much less messy. I had read a recipe in “Cook’s Illustrated,” last year for… more »

It’s always time to bake cookies and if you caught me on the NBC Today Show when I  showed lots of delicious options from the new Gourmet Cookie Book you know just where to start. Here is a link to that segment and the Polish Apricot-filled Cookie recipe that I made on air. You can find The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe from Each Year 1941-2009… in stores and on line this week. I also recently had the more »

My Black Thumb… Whenever I teach a cooking class I always tell my students to read the whole recipe through from start to finish, before they begin to cook. That way they can avoid that unfortunate moment when the guests are seated and waiting at the dining room table and they come across the part of the recipe that says to “chill overnight.” I usually follow my own good advice when making a new recipe, particularly one that is out more »

When I was on book tour in the spring a young woman showed up on my doorstep holding a flowerpot filled with popcorn, made completely out of chocolate. I was blown away. Her name was Beth Jackson Klosterboer and she told me she had worked as a chocolatier and event planner for over 20 years. Her newest venture was going to be a Halloween book. I asked her to send it to me when it came out and now that… more »