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Olga Massov

Biography

Olga Massov

Olga Massov is a cookbook editor at Phaidon Press. In her past life, she spent 10 years on Wall Street, and then through great fortune, amazing mentors, and hard work, three plus years writing cookbooks with chefs (she calls it luck, pluck, and grit). How she landed at such a venerable institution as Phaidon is still a mystery to her, but she considers herself lucky.
 
She was born in Russia, grew up in Boston, and now lives in Brooklyn with my husband, Andrew Freedman, a journalist, and her linebacker-sized tabby, Forrest Whittaker. She's due to have a baby sooso that’ll be something else.

Books by Olga Massov

Season with Authority: Confident Home Cooking
by Marc Murphy and Olga Massov - Cookbooks

With over 130 comfort food classics revisited by "Chopped" judge and one of New York's favorite chefs, Marc Murphy's SEASON WITH AUTHORITY: Confident Home Cooking is a presentation of his favorite recipes using simple methods that produce extraordinary results. Murphy’s dishes, like Spaghetti alla Carbonara, Smoked Mozzarella and Ricotta Fritters, and Pain Perdu, along with best-ever versions of familiar dishes like the “Everything Bagel” Cured Salmon with Dill Slaw, Deviled Eggs with Fried Oysters, and his award-winning Big Marc Burger, are without pretense and the recipes are perfect for the home cook. These are recipes that home cooks will turn to again and again and are sure to impress.