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Edith B. Cohen

A practical early-20th-century cookbook writer, she is known for helping young Jewish homemakers prepare affordable, traditional meals. Her work reflects everyday domestic life and kosher cooking traditions of its time.

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The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers

The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers

by Edith B. Cohen, May Henry

About the author

Edith B. Cohen is known as the co-author of The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housewives, a cookbook preserved by Project Gutenberg. The book presents budget-minded Jewish home cooking and was written to help readers make familiar dishes in a careful, accessible way.

Because reliable biographical information about her is scarce in the sources available here, not much can be confirmed about her personal life. What does come through clearly is her role in creating a practical guide to kosher household cooking, aimed at readers who wanted simple, economical recipes rather than grand or elaborate meals.

Today, her name survives mainly through that cookbook, which offers a small but vivid window into Jewish domestic life and food culture in the early 1900s.