For some foodies, the path to their profession occurs in a roundabout manner. That’s defiantly the case for Molly Yeh, the cookbook creator who has parlayed her love of meals and cooking to amass a fortune. As of 2024, Molly Yeh has a internet value of $9 million.
Early Life
Molly Yeh was born in 1989 in Glenview, Ohio, which is a suburb of Chicago. She undoubtedly had an fascinating parental combine, as Yeh is of Jewish and Chinese descent.
Yeh grew up with inventive inclinations. She attended the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, and Yeh was a member of two percussion ensembles. Molly additionally received two gold medals in the junior division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
But banging on pots and pans would ultimately win out over banging on a wide range of drums and different percussive devices. Yeh moved to New York to attend Julliard, and whereas she did earn a bachelor’s in music, she started to fall in love with meals.
She began out merely sufficient, making a weblog so she might share her recipes, and this turned out to be the begin of her profession in the world of meals.
Food on the Farm
While New York may need appeared like the excellent place to start out a meals-primarily based profession, life had different plans for Yeh. In 2013 she left Brooklyn to go to the Upper Midwest along with her fiancé, a fifth-technology sugar beet farmer who might hint his ancestry again to Norway.
But Yeh’s curiosity in meals stayed sturdy, and after a number of years of including farm-primarily based components to her recipes, she printed her first cookbook, “Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm.”
The success of the ebook appeared equally unlikely, however in 2016 the ebook received the International Associates of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award.
That earned Yeh a spot internet hosting a present on the Food Network, the place she proved to be way more than enticing eye sweet with just a few intriguing recipes.
Her collection, “Girl Meets Farm,” has been operating efficiently for 9 seasons now, and Yeh’s ardour for all issues meals stays sturdy, bolstered by her charming, participating method.
Yeh additionally maintained an curiosity in music, and in 2018 she introduced that again into her life, internet hosting a present referred to as “From the Top,” which showcases the work of younger classical musicians.
The present had a fantastic popularity as a expertise showcase earlier than Yeh started internet hosting, and she or he’d continued it along with her work as a podcast host.
Private Life
Despite all the uncommon twists and turns, her life has taken – or maybe due to them – Yeh’s marriage to her husband Nick Hagen has stood the check of time.
Hagen was additionally a music main at Julliard, and the couple has two daughters, Ira Dorothy and Bernadette Rosemary, who have been born in 2019 and 2024, respectively. The couple nonetheless maintains their farm on the North Dakota/Minnesota border, though Yeh’s duties as a TV host have her touring ceaselessly as properly.
