Retiring Radcliffe librarian stirred up interest in culinary history

Gary D. Price sent along a neat Boston Herald Story on The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

It has 16,000 cookbooks, and its collection is growing all the time. Chefs and scholars – and the curious – know it as an invaluable resource for information on cooking, food and social history. Barbara Haber built the collection over the past 34 years.

“There were some cookbooks there when I arrived,\’\’ Haber notes, the result of “someone\’s act of imagination.\’\’ But, she adds, “they were considered the library hobby; they were stuck on the shelves.\’\’ Haber brought with her a long-standing love of cookbooks – “I would read them like novels\’\’ – and a notion that “they should not be dismissed for merely duplicating someone\’s recipes, but seen as artifacts of a time and place.

January 23, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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