Molly Birnbaum Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

• Founder of multimedia brand for kids building a new generation of empowered cooks, engaged eaters, and curious experimenters.
• Led company-wide initiative to execute business and content plans for the brand—including marketing, video, TV, digital, curriculum, books, magazines, social, events, and partnerships.
• Led creation of and business strategy for the book program, which includes multiple IACP awards and 150+-week New York Times bestselling middle-grade cookbooks.
• Led creation of and business strategy for the Young Chefs’ Club and the Preschool Chefs' Club, monthly subscription kit programs.
• Creator and host of Mystery Recipe, a podcast for kids and their grownups, now in season 4 with 1.8M downloads.

Brookline, MA

• Co-founder of digital brand for America’s Test Kitchen, publishing long-form journalism at the intersection of food and science, with recipes for the home cook, nominated for an IACP award.
• Managed team of writers, cooks, scientists, and freelancers.
• Wrote, produced, and performed in live show about the science of the perfect hamburger.

Brookline, MA

• Editor of the “The Science of Good Cooking” cookbook, a New York Times best seller (2013). Editor of the “Cook’s Science” cookbook (2016), nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award.

Hudson, NY

• Part of original startup team for print quarterly and daily website, nominated for two ASMEs (2014). Worked closely with editorial, art and design, marketing, and production team in a deadline-driven, start-up.

Brookline, MA

• Author of the memoir “Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way,” a personal inquiry into the science and psychology of the sense of smell, shortlisted for IACP award in Literary Food Writing.

Point Reyes Station, CA

New York, NY

Master Of Science (M.S.), Magazine

Bachelor'S Degree, History Of Art And Architecture