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Barbara Kafka, Interview 2: April 6, 2009
- Permalink:
- https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/pnvx0kxb
- Interview Title:
- Barbara Kafka, Interview 2: April 6, 2009
- Description:
- This interview covers Barbara Kafka's experience working on books with James Beard and subsequently on her own cookbooks.
- Narrator Name:
- Barbara Kafka
- Narrator Biography:
- An acclaimed presence in the food world for decades, Barbara Kafka has been a cookbook author, food writer, and a food and restaurant consultant. No other writer working today can claim as long a professional association with James Beard. Their association began when she was hired to supervise and write much of The Cook's Catalogue, a book edited by Beard with Milton Glaser and Burton Richard Wolf in 1975. She continued to work with him, teaching classes at his cooking schools in California and New York, and helping him with his writing. After Beard's death, she put together The James Beard's Celebration Cookbook in order to raise money for the James Beard Foundation. Kafka's own exhaustively-researched single-subject cookbooks (Vegetables, Roasting, Microwave Cooking) have set a standard for excellence. In 2007, Kafka received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation. In her interview, she discusses her relationship with Beard and her own extensive work.
- Interviewer Name:
- Judith Weinraub
- Interview Number:
- 2
- Date:
- 2009-04-06
- Total Length of Interview:
- 1 hour, 51 minutes
- Segment 1 Duration:
- 0:01:32
- Segment 1 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_2/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_06-a-interview.precision.en.txt
- Segment 2 Duration:
- 1:15:47
- Segment 2 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_2/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_06-b-interview.precision.en.txt
- Segment 3 Duration:
- 0:02:10
- Segment 3 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_2/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_06-c-interview.precision.en.txt
- Segment 4 Duration:
- 0:25:06
- Segment 4 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_2/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_06-d-interview.precision.en.txt
- Segment 5 Duration:
- 0:06:28
- Segment 5 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_2/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_06-e-interview.precision.en.txt
- Topics:
- Cookbooks Cooking - equipment and supplies Cooking history Food writing Health and nutrition Publishing Restaurants
- People:
- Baum, Joseph Baum, Joseph Bramson, Ann Cofacci, Gino Cunningham, Marion Ferrone, John Glaser, Milton Jones, Judith, 1924 - Kafka, Barbara Kump, Peter Sax, Irene Tower, Jeremiah Villas, James Waters, Alice Wilson, José Wolf, Burton
- Organizations:
- Dial Publishing Company Four Seasons (Restaurant) Mademoiselle Playbill Revue du vin de France Vogue Windows on the World (New York, N.Y.)
- Places:
- California Paris (France)
- Previous Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/bk_04_03_2009.html
- Next Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/bk_04_13_2009.html
- File Type:
- sound
- Resource Type:
- oral histories (literary works)
- NYU Call Number:
- MSS_309.ref72.1
- Object Identifier:
- bk_04_06_2009
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Barbara Kafka, Interview 2: April 6, 2009", Voices from the Food Revolution- People Who Changed The Way Americans Eat, NYU Fales Library
- Reference Link:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/bk_04_06_2009.html