“I always enjoyed baking, but as far as eating, I always picked cheese ...” — Molly Yeh Quote

“I always enjoyed baking, but as far as eating, I always picked cheese fries over sweets.”

“In most places in the Midwest, the best food is found in people's homes, on their farms, at church potlucks.”

“It's never been my goal to create something that is found on the internet elsewhere. I only want to create things that are new.”

“By the time a meal I'm preparing rolls around, I'm usually so full from tasting that I'm not hungry any more.”

“Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn't even strike me as a possibility that a place could really exist without tons of Jews.”

“My go-to ingredients that are also pantry-friendly start with freeze-dried berries. They're so potent with both flavor and color and can grind up into a fine powder and give you a smooth frosting or cake.”

“Baking is more like chemistry, following certain instructions and knowing what comes out in the end. It's almost reassuring! Songwriting is a creative process where you go into a session with nothing and can come out of it with something incredible in the end. I never feel like I'm taking a risk with baking, but always with songwriting.”

“My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.”

“I'm bad at baking.”

“I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day... And it's a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys.”

“If youre serious about cooking, baking, or life in general, then you need a scale.”