Molly Watson is a writer in San Francisco. Along with a wide range of freelance work, she writes and edits Local Foods and is the author of The Dinner Files.

She is also a regular contributor to Edible San Francisco, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset magazine, and epicurious.com, among other publications. She is also the former staff food writer at Sunset magazine.

Her critically-acclaimed humor essay Scrambled Eggs was featured in the SF Chronicle best-seller The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image, and Other Hazards of Being Female (Seal Press, 2007).

SELECTED WORK:

By the book – or not, Edible San Francisoc, summer 2010
Our little local fish, Edible San Francisco, spring 2010
The rise of the sustainable sandwich, Edible San Francisco, winter 2009-2010
The business of school lunch, Edible San Francisco, summer 2009
Keeping up with the meyers, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 March 2008
Surf, shave ice and sunsets on Kauai, The New York Times, 4 December 2005

Winter squash, Sunset, October 2008
Northwest berries, Sunset, June 2008
Home-style dim sum, Sunset, April 2008
Fresh-picked flavor, Sunset, March 2008
Cocktails and companions, Sunset, January 2008
Backyard Oktoberfest, Sunset, October 2007
Halloween treat, Sunset, October 2007
Sweet and golden, Sunset, September 2007
Portland cooks, Sunset, February 2007
Dinner at the ranch, Sunset, December 2006
Chef’s table, Sunset, November 2006
Flavor of fall, Sunset, October 2006
Tomato party, Sunset, August 2006
Let’s eat out, Sunset, July 2006
Hamburger heaven, Sunset, July 2006
Peruvian passage, Sunset, June 2006