Marian Morash is an American cookbook author, chef, restaurateur and television presenter.
Morash graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts, where she studied acting, in 1959.[1] [2]
Morash first began cooking when her husband, Russell Morash, was producing The French Chef and would bring home partially-cooked dishes used as swap-outs on the show with instructions from Julia Child, the show's host, on how to finish the dishes.
In 1975 Morash opened the Straight Wharf restaurant in Nantucket, Massachusetts.[3]
In 1975 Morash helped launch WGBH gardening show Crocket's Victory Garden, hosted by James Underwood Crockett; she served as the show's on-air chef, demonstrating how to use the vegetables that Crockett grew.[4] The show was produced by her husband. After Crockett's death in 1979, Morash took over hosting and the show was retitled The Victory Garden and eventually Victory Garden's Edible Feast; the show ended in 2015.
Morash's The Victory Garden Cookbook was published in 1982 by Knopf. The book became a bestseller.[5] Publishers Weekly, writing in their review of her subsequent The Victory Garden Fish and Vegetable Cookbook, said the first book had "strong success."[6] UPI called it "a vegetable encyclopedia for cooks who garden and gardeners who cook".
In 1984 Morash won a James Beard Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America.[7]
Morash and her late husband, Russell Morash, have a daughter.[8]