Molly Lyons Bar-David

Molly Lyons Bar-David (pen name, M.X.L.; , Lyons; , 1910-1987) was a Canadian-born Israeli journalist and cookbook author, who served as culinary advisor to El-Al Airlines. Her Folklore Cook Book (1964; international title, The Israeli Cook Book), containing 750 recipes, was the first cookbook to include recipes from multiple Israeli ethnic groups as well as the Jewish diaspora. Her parents emigrated to Canada from Russia.

Career Bar-David was a food columnist for the Jerusalem Post, and for more than twenty years, she wrote the "Diary of an Israeli Housewife" column for Hadassah Magazine. She wrote for many Canadian newspapers including Junior Hadassah, Palestine Illustrator News,Saskatchewan Jewish Post, The Jewish Advocate, Tisdale Recorder, and Woman’s Wear (Toronto). and a memoir, My Promised Land (1953). She also published three cookbooks: Folklore Cook Book (1964), whose international title was, The Israeli Cookbook (1968). a literary agent.

Molly Lyons Bar-David died on October 21, 1987; interment was in Savyon, Israel.

Selected works Cookbooks The Folkloric Cookbook, 1964 (National Library of Israel, 990018517530205171) Jewish Cooking for Pleasure, 1965 The Israeli Cook Book: What's Cooking In Israel's Melting Pot, 1964

Non-fiction Women in Israel, 1952 My Promised Land, 1953 That’s How it is With Us The Path to Losing Weight