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Food historian Barbara Haber kicks off fall 2002 lecture series
Posted 9/11/2002
MADISON, Wis.--In her talk, "Finding Your Past in Cookbooks," Barbara Haber takes a bite out of history in her upcoming Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries lecture at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 19.
Haber is curator of books at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
As one of the leading authorities on food history in the United States, she sits on the governing board of the International Association of Cooking Professionals and has appeared on "Today" and "Martha Stewart Living." Haber has written for a wide range of popular and scholarly publications. She is the author of "From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals."
In her position at Havard University, Haber has developed one of the country's most important collections of cookbooks and books on food history, which features more than 16,000 volumes.
Haber's lecture is in Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library. The presentation is cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America.
For more information, contact the Friends, (608) 265-2505, friends@library.wisc.edu.
