Molly Yeh | |
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| Born | May 22, 1989[1][2] |
| Alma mater | The Juilliard School ('11)[4] |
| Spouse |
Nick Hagen (m. 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent |
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| Website | mynameisyeh |
Molly Yeh (born May 22, 1989)[2] is an American cookbook author and blogger who is the host of the Food Network cooking show Girl Meets Farm.
Yeh was born and raised in Glenview, Illinois,[1][3] to Jody (née Shinbrod) and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh. Her mother is Jewish and her father is Chinese.[5][6] She has an older sister, Jenna, who is a chef, as well as a younger half sister, Mia.[7][8][9]
Yeh attended Glenbrook South High School[10] and the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory,[11] where she was a member of two percussion ensembles—The Rattan Trio [12] and Beat 3-- [13] which won consecutive gold medals (2004 and 2005) in the junior division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She kept journals from a young age which turned into her blog in 2009.[14]
After high school, she moved to New York City to attend the Juilliard School, where she was editorial assistant and writer at The Juilliard Journal and in 2011 earned a Bachelor of Music degree in percussion.[15]
In October 2016, Yeh published her first book, Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm (Rodale Books), for which she won the Judges' Choice IACP Cookbook Award in 2017.[16] In June 2018, it was announced that Yeh would be hosting a cooking show on Food Network.[5] The series, Girl Meets Farm, debuted on June 24, 2018.[17] Her eleventh season of Girl Meets Farm launched on September 4, 2022.[citation needed] Also in November 2018, she was a co-host on From the Top, a podcast showcasing young classical musicians. Yeh had previously appeared on the show twice as a teenager, in 2004 and 2007.[18] In 2021 she hosted the show Ben and Jerry's Clash of the Cones.[19] She took over as host of Spring Baking Championship for its eighth season, premiering February 28, 2022. Molly Yeh has also made a restaurant in East Grand Forks, MN, called Bernie's.[20][21]
In 2014, Yeh married fellow Juilliard music major Nick Hagen and moved to East Grand Forks, Minnesota where Hagen is a fifth-generation farmer.[3][22][6][23]
In November 2018, Yeh announced that she and her husband were expecting their first child. On March 30, 2019, Yeh gave birth to a daughter, Bernadette Rosemary Yeh Hagen, named after her husband's great-great-grandfather Bernt (who started the Hagen farm) and her own great-great-grandfather, Bernard.[24] In September 2021, Yeh announced she and her husband were expecting their second child in February 2022.[25] Their second daughter, Ira Dorothy Yeh Hagen, was born on February 20, 2022.[26] Ira's name was suggested by Jamie, the director of photography for Girl Meets Farm.[27]