MW by Kyle Johnson

Molly Wizenberg is a Seattle-based writer behind the Orangette, a food blog that just won the James Beard Foundation award. She is in Sitka this week to share her writing. (Emily Kwong/KCAW photo)

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Molly Wizenberg is a food writer and restaurateur from Seattle. Her blog, Orangette, just won a James Beard Foundation award for Best Individual Food Blog. Her first book, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, was a New York Times bestseller. She also co-hosts the hit podcast Spilled Milk.

Wizenberg lives in Seattle with her husband Brandon Pettit, their daughter June, and two dogs named Jack and Alice. She and Brandon own and run the restaurants Delancey and Essex.

Wizenberg will be reading from her work at Kettleson Memorial Library at 7 p.m. tonight (04-27-15). Wizenberg and her husband will also be teaching a 4th grade class at Keet Gooshi Heen about the chemistry of pizza and food writing.