Susie Fishbein

Susie Fishbein
Born	Susan Beth Fishbein 1968 Oceanside, New York
Nationality	American
Known for	Kosher cookbook author

Susan Beth (Susie) Fishbein (born 1968) is an American Orthodox Jewish kosher cookbook author. Her Kosher By Design series of cookbooks is a runaway best-seller for ArtScroll, with over 450,000 copies sold from 2003 through 2012. In 2008 she was included on the Forward 50 as one of the 50 most influential Jews.

Susie Fishbein was born in Oceanside, New York and raised in a strictly kosher home. She earned an MA in science education and taught in a public school for four years.

In 2000 she co-edited the The Kosher Palette: Easy and elegant modern kosher cooking, a 308-page hardcover, spiral-bound, community cookbook produced as a fundraising tool for the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy of Livingston, New Jersey, where her first child was a student. The book went through four printings comprising 36,000 copies from April 2000 to December 2001.

After this project, Fishbein sought to upgrade her cooking knowledge by taking lessons and collecting recipes from professional chefs. Professing an interest in bringing to the kosher cookbook market "something like what Martha Stewart does – meals that are easy to prepare, and elegant and healthful, and that appeal to all the senses", she assembled the team of Renee Errich, a Manhattan event planner, to choreograph table settings, Larry Sexton, florist at the Plaza Hotel, to provide flower-arranging tips, and John Uher, a professional food and lifestyle magazine photographer, to direct the photo shoots for a new kosher cookbook titled Kosher By Design. This team continued to work with her on subsequent books, along with other experts such as Bonnie Taub-Dix, spokeswoman for the American Diabetic Association (the nutrition consultant on Kosher By Design Lightens Up) and kosher caterer Moshe David (who contributed many recipes for Passover By Design).

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