The 5 Towns Jewish Times
January 1, 2020
By Toby Klein Greenwald
Media empire chief Jamie Geller is effusive in expressing her gratitude to Larry and Esta Gordon of the 5TJT and to their daughter Malkie Hirsch.
She was already an award-winning TV producer and marketing executive for ten years, which included working for HBO and CNN. But before she became the author of seven bestselling cookbooks and founder and CEO of Kosher Network International (KNi), Jamie Geller wrote a column called “Secrets of the 15-Minute Chef” for the 5TJT. It was 15 years ago and it ran for three years.
“Once I learned how to cook and I was on maternity leave from HBO, my husband said, ‘You should write a cookbook,’ and as I’m writing the book, I really wrote the story of my life. It became an autobiography how I married, made mistakes in the kitchen and I needed recipes, so I wrote those after I wrote the book. That book, the first of seven bestselling cookbooks, was Quick