Molly Goldberg's Pickle Soup

How a 1955 celebrity cookbook covered all my winter meals

Molly Goldberg is one of those characters that mostly television historians and old Jews talk about. The woman who created and played her, Gertrude Berg, was a television pioneer who doesn’t get enough credit today for helping invent what we call the sitcom, and that was after she had a hugely successful career on the radio. She died in 1966, and althou…