author
Edith B. Cohen
A practical early Jewish cookbook co-creator, remembered for helping shape an accessible guide to kosher home cooking for young housekeepers. Her surviving public record is slim, but the book she helped compile offers a clear window into everyday domestic cooking and thrift.
1 Audiobook
The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers
by May Henry, Edith B. Cohen
About the author
Edith B. Cohen is known today chiefly as the co-author, with May Henry, of The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers. Publicly available catalog and ebook records confirm her connection to this cookbook, which was issued in multiple editions and later preserved through Project Gutenberg.
The book was designed as a practical, economical guide to Orthodox Jewish cooking and household management, aimed especially at younger home cooks. It reflects a hands-on, instructional style rather than a personal memoir, so much of Cohen's individual life story remains difficult to document from readily available reliable sources.
Because so little biographical information is clearly confirmed online, it is safest to remember her through the work itself: a compact, useful cookbook that helped pass along kosher cooking knowledge in a simple, affordable, everyday form.