Molly Baz, Food World Superstar, On Letting Go And Holding On

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Molly Baz, author, recipe developer, mom, and entrepreneur, joins us to talk about the unexpected turns her life has taken since leaving Bon Appétit in 2020 and putting down roots in Los Angeles. There’s Molly’s entrepreneur life, which includes the Ayoh mayo and sando sauce company, Drink This Wine, and the Face Plant fast-food spot in Portland, Oregon; her partnerships with brands like Special K; her bestselling cookbooks; and her support for pregnant and nursing moms. And then, of course, there were the L.A. fires earlier this January in which Molly and her husband lost their home. She and host Kerry Diamond discuss her life today, what she’s holding onto and leaving behind, and why joy remains the priority. Thank you to Square and Kate’s Ice Cream for their support. Learn more at square.com/big Join the waitlist for Jubilee L.A. Get The Italy Issue here! Subscribe to Cherry Bombe’s print magazine Shop Ayoh, Molly’s mayo & sando sauce More on Molly: Instagram, Drink This Wine, Face Plant, website, Molly & Special K More on Kerry: Instagram Past episodes and transcripts

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb magazine. Today's guest is Food World Superstar Molly Baza. Lots of you know and love Molly. We're just announcing this today,
0:22.6	but Molly is one of the keynote speakers at our Jubilee Conference happening later this month
0:26.6	in Los Angeles. More on that in just a minute. Molly has become quite the entrepreneur since
0:31.9	leaving Bon Appetit in 2020. She's launched her own wine company called Drink This Wine,
0:37.4	and she's launched Ayo,
0:39.0	the mayonnaise and sando sauce brand. Earlier this year, she opened a vegan fast food joint in Portland,
0:44.7	Oregon called Face Plant, get it. She's written two best-selling cookbooks and is working on her
0:49.7	third, and she's become a voice for nursing moms and pregnant moms. Thanks to her special case
0:55.3	cereal box, Molly is pregnant on the box, and her Times Square billboards, one of which got taken
1:01.3	down because some weirdo complained. That billboard should not have been controversial. People need to
1:06.6	get over women nursing. If it bothers you, you are the problem, not the nursing mother.
1:12.0	Molly and I cover all of that, and we also discuss how she's doing following the Altadena
1:16.7	fires this past January. A lot of you know this, but Molly and her husband were two of the many
1:21.7	folks who tragically lost their homes. My heart goes out to everyone still dealing with the
1:26.5	aftermath of the fires.
1:28.4	Stay tuned for my chat with Molly Boz. Today's show is presented by Square. Some of you might not
1:34.7	know this, but years ago, I owned a cute little coffee shop in Brooklyn. I sold it because I
1:39.4	couldn't do Cherrybaum and the coffee shop at the same time, but I learned so much about running a
1:43.6	small business and
1:44.5	having a brick-and-mortar location. One of my favorite tools was our square POS. We did everything
1:50.0	from there, ring in sales, keep an eye on inventory, and track the discounts we offered every
1:54.8	time customers brought in their reusable coffee cups. I appreciated how easy it was to use for me
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