NEW YORK—Leah Cohen wasn’t always the owner and executive chef of Pig and Khao on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Piggyback Bar in Jersey City, New Jersey. She’s had a long journey to get to where she is today, which started when she was 8 years old.
Cohen first developed an interest in the culinary arts when she helped her mother and grandmother with the family and holiday dinners. During school snow days, she would spend her time cooking instead of sledding in Westchester, New York.
