David Liederman

David Liederman (March 15, 1949 – July 4, 2024) was an American chef and businessman. He is best known for creating David's Cookies company (owned by Fairfield Gourmet Foods Corporation ), which produces a line of desserts, baked goods and cookie dough. He ceased to be associated with David's Cookies in 1996.

Early life Liederman was born on March 15, 1949, in Manhattan, New York. He was the son of Adele Kaplan, director of the Rutgers University Small Business Development Center's women division, and Donald E. Liederman, chairman and president of the Capital Energy Corporation, an‐oil drilling business based in Beverly Hills. In 1990 David co-wrote a diet book called David's Delicious Weight-Loss Program with freelance writer Joan Schwartz. In the mid-1990s Liederman opened a theme restaurant, Television City, in Rockefeller Center. Liederman sold David's Cookies in 1996. After being acquired by the New Jersey–based Fairfield Gourmet Foods Corp., David's Cookies evolved into a full line dessert supplier. with whom he had two daughters, Katie Liederman, a psychotherapist, and Elizabeth Liederman Rossi, who worked in marketing for the New York Yankees.

Liederman died in Mount Kisco, New York, on July 4, 2024, at the age of 75. According to his wife, his cause of death was a heart attack, though he was also being treated for myelofibrosis.