American cookbook author, blogger, and host of the Food Network cooking show Girl Meets Farm, Molly Yeh is known for her unique recipes that lean on her cultural upbringing.
Born to Chinese and Jewish parents, her recipes often fuse the two kitchens together creating a new kind of kitchen that has gained popularity. One of these was her recipe for pretzel challah, which went viral after she posted it on her blog in 2013. It was this recipe that had launched her career.
Now with more than 600k followers on Instagram, people have clearly caught onto the trend. “I used to think that the best part about being Jewish and Chinese was that I could breeze through math class like it ain’t no thang,” joked Yeh in an interview with food52, “but now I’m pretty sure that the best part is getting away with taking the best foods from each culture, and smashing them together.”
Not one to shy from new things, Yeh says she also loves traveling and learning what other people eat for their holidays or pizza nights or midnight snacks, and then recreating such food in her own way. Another favorite food of hers is schnitzel, adhering to the motto “If life gives you lemons, squeeze them on a schnitzel!”. Her love for the food goes so deep that her family even dressed up as schnitzel for Halloween.
Her Instagram page is our go-to for food inspo:
