Friederun Köhnen (born 22 September 1942) is a semi-retired television-chef and food-entrepreneuse, originally from Saxony, but based in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2007 she handed over to her son, Volker Köhnen, responsibility for the daily running of the family business (known in recent decades as "The Food Professionals Köhnen AG") she had built up. By this time she was responsible for more than 100,000 published recipes. Since 1965 she has significantly influenced both home cooking and commercial food production in her native Germany.