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Barbara Kafka, Interview 3: April 13, 2009
- Permalink:
- https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/k0p2nh2s
- Interview Title:
- Barbara Kafka, Interview 3: April 13, 2009
- Description:
- This interview covers Barbara Kafka's recollections of James Beard and Joseph Baum and their works.
- 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:
- 3
- Date:
- 2009-04-13
- Total Length of Interview:
- 39 minutes
- Segment 1 Duration:
- 0:38:58
- Segment 1 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Kafka_Barbara-interview_3/Kafka_Barbara-2009_04_13-interview.precision.en.txt
- Topics:
- Cookbooks Cooking - French Cooking - study and teaching Cooking history Food writing Publishing Restaurants
- People:
- Baum, Joseph Beard, James, 1903-1985 Cage, John Child, Julia Cunningham, Marion Jones, Judith, 1924 - Kafka, Barbara Kump, Peter Waters, Alice Wolf, Burton
- Organizations:
- Four Seasons (Restaurant) Revue du vin de France Windows on the World (New York, N.Y.)
- Places:
- California
- Previous Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/bk_04_06_2009.html
- File Type:
- sound
- Resource Type:
- oral histories (literary works)
- NYU Call Number:
- MSS_309.ref74.1
- Object Identifier:
- bk_04_13_2009
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Barbara Kafka, Interview 3: April 13, 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_13_2009.html