Born in Odessa, Russia, Luba Tooter immigrated to America with her family as a young girl in 1913. Marriage to Jimmy Cohen took her from New York City to Blytheville, Arkansas, where she raised a family, weaving her European Jewish heritage into her Southern American Jewish life. Did she arrive in America clutching this Old World coffee cake recipe in her hand? Not exactly. She learned it from her daughter-in-law, Heddy Horowitz Cohen, in t
